Toyota has announced a multi-year plan to realign its manufacturing operations in North America in support of the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA), a comprehensive approach to achieving sustainable growth by making ever-better vehicles more efficiently.
 
As part of this strategy, Toyota will invest approximately S$1.3 billion to construct its latest North American manufacturing facility in the state of Guanajuato in Central Mexico to produce the Corolla. This state-of-the-art plant will feature the latest TNGA production engineering innovations, employ approximately 2,000 team members and have the capacity to produce 200,000 units annually.  
 
These moves advance Toyota's efforts under TNGA to group production by common vehicle platforms in each North American plant to improve efficiency and enhance flexibility.   
 
TNGA boosts vehicle quality and appeal while achieving cost savings through production engineering innovations, building more models on common platforms, the intelligent use of common parts and more fully leveraging Toyota's supply chain. By focusing on the joint development of vehicle powertrains and platforms, TNGA enables Toyota to produce vehicles with a lower centre of gravity, delivering to customers enhanced driving performance, greater fuel efficiency and high-quality collision performance. 
 
The plant will be the first in the world designed from the ground up with TNGA production engineering technologies and will leverage the existing robust supply base and transportation infrastructure in the region. Toyota will also establish a plant preparation office in the state of Queretaro.