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Not just an attempt. Toyota is the one of largest employers of Americans in the auto industry today: https://www.thomasnet.com/articles/top-suppliers/car-manuf

• Apocryphon 4y ago
  True, they have plenty of plants, I just mean it sounds like NUMMI wasn't as successful as it could've been.
  • vxNsr 4y ago
    According to that story which I’ve listened to before, that partnership had a very specific set of goals, once those goals were achieved or deemed unachievable (as the case may be) the purpose of the plant no longer existed so they shut it down.
    • buescher 4y ago
      That plant is now the Tesla plant.
  • FunnyBadger 4y ago
    It was very successful locally. The problem that "killed it" was that GM wanted to expand the model to other plants (Van Nuys was the next) and the same techniques didn't work. Likely because the wrong people were running things in Van Nuys compared to Fremont. Leadership is EVERYTHING when it comes to organizational transitions and problems with that.