Toyota USA Automobile Museum

1961:
•Warn Industries becomes Toyota’s first
U.S. supplier shipping select drive hubs for
the Land Cruiser.
1971:
•Toyota signs agreement with Atlas
Fabricators of Long Beach to begin
producing truck beds for pickups. This
marks Toyota’s first U.S. production.
Atlas Fabricators Inc. of Long beach, 1971
1972:
•Atlas Fabricators of Long Beach begins
producing truck beds for pickups. Making
Toyota the only import truck with a
domestically built cargo body.
1974:
•Toyota purchases Atlas Fabricators Inc. and
renames it Long Beach Fabricators, Inc.
1976:
•Long Beach Fabricators produces its
100,000th truck bed.
Long Beach Fabricators, 1974
1980:
•Toyota renames Long Beach Fabricators, to
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A. Inc.
(TMM)
1983:
•Toyota and GM begin planning for a joint
manufacturing facility using a closed GM
plant in Freemont, CA.
New United Motor Aerial
TABC-1millionth US truck bed produced
1984:
•Toyota and GM form a joint venture to
build vehicles named New United Motor
Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) in Freemont,
CA.
•TMM produces its 1,000,000th truck bed
1985:
•NUMMI begins production of cars, a GM
rebadged Corolla Sprinter.
•Toyota selects Scott County, Kentucky for
the company’s first wholly-owned US
automobile manufacturing plant.
1985:
•Toyota selects Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
for the company’s first wholly-owned
automobile manufacturing plant in Canada.
•Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Inc.
(TMMC) is established.
1986:
•Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc.,
(TMM) is established to build vehicles in
Georgetown, Kentucky.
•Ground is broken for the new $800 million
manufacturing plant in Georgetown,
Kentucky.
•NUMMI begins production of first Toyotas
produced in the U.S., the Corolla FX16.
•Ground is broken for TMMC manufacturing
operations in Cambridge Ontario, Canada
TMMK Groundbreaking
Corolla FX16 coming off the line at NUMMI
1986:
•Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Long
Beach CA is renamed Toyota Auto Body
Inc. (TABC).
1987:
•Toyota announces plans to build a $300
million powertrain plant at TMM.
Toyota Auto Body Incorporated (TABC)
1988:
•TMM begins producing Camrys.
•TMM begins producing axles at its new
power train plant.
•TMMC begins production of Corolla
sedans.
•Toyota’s NUMMI plant begins exporting
Corollas to Taiwan.
1989:
•TABC produces its 1.5 millionth truck bed
•NUMMI announces plant expansion plans.
Camry Line-Off ceremony
1989:
•TABC begins building catalytic converters.
•NUMMI announces it will start building
Toyota trucks at the newly expanded
California plant
•TMM begins producing 4-cylinder engines.
1990:
•TMM, receives the J.D. Power ‘Gold Plant
Quality Award’ as the best manufacturing
plant in North America.
•Toyota purchases Bodine Aluminum of St.
Louis and Troy, MO. to produce engine parts
•TABC produces 1 millionth catalytic
converter
1991:
•TMMC receives the J.D. Power ‘Gold Plant
Quality Award’ as the best manufacturing
plant in North America.
•TMM expands powertrain plant.
•TABC produces 2 millionth catalytic
substrate
•TABC produces 2 millionth truck bed
TABC catalytic converter assembly grand opening
Bodine Aluminum
1991:
•NUMMI produces its first Toyota Truck, a
two-wheel drive model.
1992:
•Toyota establishes the Toyota Supplier
Support Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
NUMMI truck assembly line
1993:
•Bodine Aluminum begins aluminum casting
production to produce engine cylinder heads
and intake manifolds.
•TMMC begins building an engine plant.
•NUMMI begins building a new plastics
parts manufacturing facility.
1994:
•Cumulative exports of North Americanbuilt Toyota vehicles reach 150,000 units.
•TMM begins producing V-6 engines
•TMMC announces a $755 million
expansion to double vehicle capacity and
employ an additional 1,200 workers
Bodine intake manifolds
1994:
•NUMMI produces 2 millionth car
•TMM begins production of Avalons.
1995:
•TMMC begins $450 million plant
expansion.
•Bodine expands production to include V-6
engine blocks, cylinder heads and intake
manifolds.
•TMM expands power train plant
1995 Avalon
1996:
•TMM is renamed Toyota Motor
Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK)
•Toyota establishes Toyota Motor
Manufacturing North America, Inc
(TMMNA) in Kentucky as headquarters for
its various manufacturing plants.
NUMMI’s 2,000,000th vehicle
1996:
•TABC expands stamping operations.
•Groundbreaking for the Toyota Motor
Manufacturing, Indiana (TMMI) truck plant.
•Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West
Virginia, Inc. (TMMWV) announces a $400
million investment to build a new fourcylinder engine plant in Buffalo, West
Virginia.
•1,000,000th Corolla produced at NUMMI
TMMI building site
1997:
•TMMC expands plant. This added
production of Corollas means there is
enough production to meet North American
market demands.
•Toyota’s cumulative North American
production surpasses five million units.
•TMMNA begins building a $15 million
production engineering and quality
laboratory.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, TMC President Hiroshi Okuda & WV Gov.
Gaston Caperton at future site for TMMWV
1997:
•TMMK begins building the Sienna
Minivan.
•NUMMI builds 3 millionth vehicle.
1998:
•TMMC begins exclusive production of the
new Solara Coupe.
•NUMMI builds a 200,000 foot passenger
car plant building.
•TMMWV plant expansion to build
automatic transmissions and 4 cylinder
engines
•TMMI undergoes $500 million plant
expansion to build Tundras
•First Tundra rolls off line at TMMI
•Bodine begins $80 million plant expansion.
First Sienna coming off the line at TMMK
3,000,000th NUMMI vehicle
1999:
•TMMK undergoes a $15.4 million plant
expansion.
•NUMMI produces its one-millionth truck.
•TMMWV begins producing V-6 engines
1999 Tundra
TMMI Sequoia line-off ceremony
2000:
•TMMI begins producing the Sequoia, a fullsize SUV
•In order to meet a zero landfill goal,
TMMNA develops plan to dramatically
change production to reduce the plant’s
impact on the environment and landfills.
•The combined annual production of
Toyota’s North American manufacturing
operations reaches 1.1 million vehicles.
•TMMWV begins building V-6 engines
2001:
•First V-6 engines produced in North
America for a Lexus, the RX 300, are
produced at TMMWV
•TMMNA announces plans to boost
purchases from minority owned businesses
to at least 6 percent
•Groundbreaking ceremonies for a new
engine plant, Toyota Motor Manufacturing
Alabama (TMMAL) takes place near
Huntsville, Alabama
2002:
•NUMMI begins production of the Voltz, a
right-hand drive car for export to Japan.
•Toyota celebrates the production of the 10
millionth North American vehicle.
•Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja
California announces plans to build a truck
bed plant in Tijuana, Baja California. Total
investment of $140 million.
Groundbreaking at TMMAL
10,000,000th Toyota built in North America
2003:
•TMMAL begins producing V-8 engines.
•TMMC begins production of the Lexus
RX330, the first Lexus built outside of
Japan.
•TMMNA selects Jackson, Tennessee for the
site of the new Bodine Aluminum, Inc.
engine block plant.
•Groundbreaking at Toyota Motor
Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) to build the
new full-size Tundra.
Bodine Aluminum announcement in Jackson Tennessee
TMMTX Groundbreaking
2004:
•TMMC announces its North American plant
in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada to build
RAV4.
•TMMBC holds grand opening and begins
producing Tacoma trucks.
•TMMI begins $6.2 million expansion of
body weld shop to prepare for the new
Tundra
2005:
•TMMAL breaks ground for expanded plant
to produce more V8 engines and begins
production of V6 engines
•Bodine Aluminum beings production of
engine blocks
2006:
•TMMK builds it’s 5,000,000th Camry
•Toyota announces that the Camry will be
built at Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc.
(SIA) beginning in 2007
•Toyota launches Toyota Motor Engineering
& Manufacturing North America (TEMA),
consolidating North American engineering
and manufacturing operations
•Building begins at the new $1.1 billion
TMMC plant in Woodstock Ontario
•TMMK begins building Camry Hybrids
TMMAL groundbreaking for plant expansion
TMMK announcing that North American Camry Hybrids will be built there
beginning in 2006