Toyota to build Prius in US

[DesertFox]

Toyota acknowledged Thursday that, like its rival automakers in Detroit, it misjudged the drastic swing in the American market away from larger vehicles.

With sales of pickups and big S.U.V.’s tumbling, Toyota said it will shut down truck production at two United States plants for three months and consolidate its pickups into one factory next year.

The Japanese automaker also said it will begin making its Prius gas-electric hybrids in a new plant in Mississippi by late 2010 to meet demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles.

More (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/business/worldbusiness/11toyota.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)

[Taylor1]

GOOD.

[RayChuang]

I'm not surprised Toyota will do this--the USA market is by far the largest market for the Prius in the world, exceeding even Japan (where the Prius is too expensive to buy for many Japanese because of the size of the vehicle).

[BarkleUSA]

Out of a job yet?
Keep buying foreign.

[DesertFox]

Already did, thank you. Twice.

[Beowulf]

And I will continue buying foreign so long as they keep lasting as long as they have. Every domestic I've owned has been nothing short of a pain-in-my-ass.

BTW, I'm gainfully employed and will be for awhile.

[gnome]

Well heck, if they're building them here, doesn't that mean American jobs anyway?

[DeclinetoState]

Do they hire Americans in Mississippi?