{{Short description|Automobile plant in Baja California, Mexico}} {{coord|32.500101|N|116.7200663|W|display=title}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox company | name = Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, S. de R.L. de C.V. | logo = Toyota Motor North America logo (2019).svg | native_name_lang = <!-- Use ISO 639-1 code, e.g. "fr" for French. Enter multiple names in different languages using {{tl|lang}}, instead. --> | type = Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada de Capital Variable (English: Limited Liability Company with Variable Capital) | industry = Automotive | foundation = {{Start date and age|2002|10|10|df=yes}} | defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | location_city = Tijuana, Baja California | location_country = Mexico | key_people = Oscar Quijada (president) | products = Toyota Tacoma, pickup truck beds | num_employees = 3,958 | num_employees_year = 2023 | parent = Toyota Motor North America | footnotes = }}
'''Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California''' ('''TMMBC''') is a Toyota automobile manufacturing facility located Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico that opened in 2002. The facility currently produces the Toyota Tacoma for the North American market and pickup truck beds. The plant is a {{convert|350000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} building on a site of 700 acres that has the capacity to produce 166,000 vehicles per year and employs 2,000 people.
== History == The plant is a {{convert|350000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} building on a site of 700 acres, employing 700 people.<ref name="TMMBC Fact Sheet 2010">{{Cite web |title=Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, S. de R.L. de C.V. (TMMBC) Fact Sheet |url=http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/manufacturing/toyota-motor-manufacturing-de-95254.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201044714/http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/manufacturing/toyota-motor-manufacturing-de-95254.aspx |archive-date=1 February 2010 |access-date=2020-09-04 |publisher=Toyota Motor Sales, USA}}</ref> TMMBC is Toyota's first automotive manufacturing plant in Mexico and builds Tacoma pickup trucks. The plant was built for an annual capacity of 180,000 truck beds and 30,000 Tacoma pickup trucks.
In January 2006, Toyota announced that the plant capacity would be expanded to produce 50,000 Tacoma pickup trucks, and 200,000 truck beds. The Tacoma truck beds are used for total Tacoma production.<ref name="Toyota 2006">{{Cite press release |title=Toyota Announces Expansion of Mexican Plant |date=January 23, 2006 |url=http://www2.toyota.co.jp/en/news/06/0123.html |access-date=21 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921223411/http://www2.toyota.co.jp/en/news/06/0123.html |archive-date=21 September 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As of January 2016, Toyota reports truck production capacity of 90,000, employing 1,100.<ref name="TMMBC Fact Sheet 2016">{{Cite web |date=January 27, 2016 |title=Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, S. de R.L. de C.V. (TMMBC) Fact Sheet |url=http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2378 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709081123/http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2378 |archive-date=July 9, 2017 |access-date=2020-09-04 |language=en-US}}http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2378</ref>
In 2016, Toyota announced a $150,000,000 expansion of TMMBC that would increase capacity by 2018 to up to 160,000 units.<ref name="Tijuana EDC 2016">{{Cite press release |title=Toyota Announces Production Expansion at its Baja California Plant |date=2016-10-28 |url=https://tijuanaedc.org/toyota-announces-production-expansion-baja-california-plant/ |language=en-US |access-date=2020-09-04}}https://tijuanaedc.org/toyota-announces-production-expansion-baja-california-plant/</ref> In 2017 TMMBC made 104,622 Tacomas. The increased production at TMMBC was also intended to allow adjustments at their Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas lines, which produce both Tacoma and Toyota Tundra models, to satisfy seasonal changes in Tundra orders.
TMMBC produces only V6 double cab short bed versions of the Tacoma, the most popular configuration.<ref name="Williams 2016">{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Mark |date=September 14, 2016 |title=Toyota's Tijuana Plant Pumps Out Tacomas |url=https://news.pickuptrucks.com/2016/09/toyotas-tijuana-plant-pumps-out-tacomas.html |access-date=2020-09-04}}https://news.pickuptrucks.com/2016/09/toyotas-tijuana-plant-pumps-out-tacomas.html</ref>
In January 2017, Toyota wrote in a press release: ''Our manufacturing facilities in Baja, Mexico [...] support production at our San Antonio, Texas plant, where 3,300 team members produced over 230,000 Tundras and Tacomas in 2016.''<ref name="Toyota 2017">{{Cite press release |title=Toyota in the U.S. |date=2017-01-05 |url=https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-in-us/ |language=en-US |access-date=2020-09-04 |website=Toyota USA Newsroom}}[http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases/toyota-in-us.htm 5 January 2017]</ref> Before, President-elect Donald Trump had written a Tweet ''“Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S.,” “NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.”''<ref name="Clairmont 2017">{{Cite news |last=Clairmont |first=Nicholas |date=2017-01-07 |title=Trump Is Turning American Companies Into Reality-Show Contestants |language=en-US |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/trump-companies-reality-show-contestants/512423/ |access-date=2020-09-04}}theatlantic.com: [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/trump-companies-reality-show-contestants/512423/ Trump Is Turning American Companies Into Reality-Show Contestants]</ref>
Toyota began operations in a new truck plant, Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Guanajuato (TMMGT) on 16 December 2019.<ref name="Mexico Now 2020">{{Cite news |date=2020-01-07 |title=Toyota started operations in Guanajuato |language=en-US |url=https://mexico-now.com/toyota-started-operations-in-guanajuato/ |access-date=2020-09-04}}https://mexico-now.com/index.php/article/5763-toyota-started-operations-in-guanajuato</ref>
== Products made == * Toyota Tacoma (2004–present)
== Awards == For the Annual J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Survey (IQS) of 2008, TMMBC was awarded the Gold Plant award for Quality among all North and South American automotive manufacturing plants.<ref name="JD Power 2020">{{Cite press release |title=J.D. Power Award Summaries |url=https://www.jdpower.com/Cars/Award-Summaries |language=en |access-date=2020-09-04}}http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2008063</ref>
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== External links == *[https://www.toyota.com/usa/operations/map/tmmbc ''Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California'' at Toyota.com]
{{Toyota Motor Corporation}} {{Toyota factories}} {{Automotive industry in Mexico}}
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