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I think a considerable amount of Toyotas are actually made in the US, ironically, so you might still call it American made :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis
by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
I think a considerable amount of Toyotas are actually made in the US, ironically, so you might still call it American made :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_factories#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_factories#Unite...
- philwelch 7y agoAccording to The Toyota Way, Toyota's first manufacturing plants in the US were built to work around the "chicken tax". The US imposed a tariff on imported light trucks to retaliate against French and West German tariffs on imported chickens. As a loophole, imported pickup trucks could be imported as "passenger vehicles" with the truck bed/box bolted on in an American finishing plant. Eventually the loophole was closed but Toyota, having built American manufacturing plants and trained a skilled workforce in the Toyota Production System, decided to keep using it anyway.