Toyota Motor Corporation recently released full details on its next generation Camry line up. Going on sale in the United States as a 2012 model year vehicle, the seventh generation of the “best-known” Toyota will hit dealerships this fall. Alongside new features and new body lines should be another seventh generation exclusive: a “made-in-America” tag as Toyota plans to keep all 2012 and beyond U.S. spec Camrys U.S. built.
Currently taking only a small amount of U.S. sales are Japanese built and imported Camrys. The company’s plan to stop this comes after a plan of attack to lower excess shipping costs. In order of offset exchange rate loss, local production and sales is Toyota’s game plan and their North American division is up to the task. According to an article by Automotive News, Yukihiro Okane, chief engineer for the seventh generation Camry said, “The current U.S. production capacity is sufficient to produce the vehicles we plan to sell.”
With production of the 2012 Camrys taking place at both Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky factory and at Subaru’s Indiana plant, Toyota plans to sell an annual 360,000 units to the U.S. On the other end of the world, the Japanese spec Camry is not nearly as popular as the U.S. car. Last year, only 1,100 units were sold in Japan as smaller cars and the upscale, Crown “limo”, take the spot light. The Camry, for the most part, is an American car and has been for years.
Source: AutomotiveNews.com
