{{Short description|Automobile plant in Guanajuato, Mexico}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox company | name = Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Guanajuato | logo = Toyota Motor North America logo (2019).svg | type = Subsidiary | industry = Automotive | foundation = {{Start date and age|2019|12|16|df=yes}} | location_city = Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato | location_country = Mexico | key_people = Mike Bafan (president) | products = Toyota Tacoma | num_employees = 1,764 | num_employees_year = 2020 | parent = Toyota Motor North America | homepage = | footnotes = }}
'''Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Guanajuato''' ('''TMMGT''') is a Toyota automobile manufacturing facility located in Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato, Mexico that opened in December 2019. The facility currently produces the Toyota Tacoma for the North American market. The plant has the capacity to produce 100,000 vehicles per year and employs 1,764 people.
==History== Toyota announced a plan in April 2015 to open a new factory in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.<ref name="Joseph 2015">{{Cite news |last=Joseph |first=Noah |date=16 April 2015 |title=Toyota investing $1 billion in Mexico plant |language=en |work=Autoblog |url=https://www.autoblog.com/2015/04/16/toyota-guanajuato-mexico-plant-official/ |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref> The Guanajuato plant would be the automaker's second plant in Mexico, after Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California (TMMBC), and its 15th in North America.<ref name="Toyota 2016">{{Cite press release |title=Toyota Breaks Ground in Guanajuato |date=14 November 2016 |url=https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-breaks-ground-guanajuato/ |language=en-US |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref> The plant will be the first to be built from the ground up to be able to take advantage of efficiencies enabled by the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA), a company-wide effort to simplify the vehicles being produced by Toyota.<ref name="Joseph 2015" /> At the time, Toyota announced that the plant would produce the Corolla compact sedan.<ref name="Joseph 2015" /> Construction on the {{US$|1 billion|link=yes}} plant began with a groundbreaking in November 2016.<ref name="Toyota 2016" />
The plant became the target of an international trade dispute in January 2017 when then US President-elect Donald Trump tweeted out anger towards Toyota for building a new plant in Mexico instead of the United States and threatened additional trade barriers, in the form of a border tax if the plant was built.<ref name="Trump 2017">{{Cite tweet |number=817071792711942145 |user=realDonaldTrump |title=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. |author=Donald J. Trump |date=5 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="Clairmont 2017">{{Cite news |last=Clairmont |first=Nicholas |date=7 January 2017 |title=Trump Is Turning American Companies Into Reality-Show Contestants |language=en-US |work=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/trump-companies-reality-show-contestants/512423/ |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref> Toyota defended the plant and pointed out that the current TMMBC plant in Mexico supports production at the much larger Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) plant in San Antonio which produced 230,000 vehicles per year and employed 3,300 US workers at the time.<ref name="Toyota 2017">{{Cite press release |title=Toyota in the U.S. |date=5 January 2017 |url=https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-in-us/ |language=en-US |access-date=4 September 2020 |website=Toyota USA Newsroom}}[http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases/toyota-in-us.htm 5 January 2017]</ref> The Trump administration never imposed additional tariffs on Toyota and the new United States–Mexico–Canada (USMCA) trade agreement that went into effect on 1 July 2020 allows for free trade of automobiles between the three countries as long as certain conditions are met.<ref name="Williams 2020">{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Marcus |date=6 February 2020 |title=Toyota begins exports of Tacoma from Guanajuato |language=en |work=Automotive Logistics |url=https://www.automotivelogistics.media/oems/toyota-begins-exports-of-tacoma-from-guanajuato/40116.article |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref>
Toyota announced in August 2017 that it would shift the production of the plant from the Corolla, to the Tacoma pickup truck.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 August 2017 |title=Toyota will manufacture the Tacoma pick-up truck in its Guanajuato plant |language=en-US |work=San Miguel Times |url=https://sanmigueltimes.com/2017/08/toyota-will-manufacture-the-tacoma-pick-up-truck-in-its-guanajuato-plant/ |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref>
The plant began production of the Tacoma on 19 December 2019 and the first truck rolled off the production line on 6 February 2020.<ref name="Juárez & Ramos 2020">{{Cite news |last=Juárez |first=Pilar |last2=Ramos |first2=Mariana |date=6 February 2020 |title=Toyota inaugura en Guanajuato su segunda planta en México |language=es-MX |work=Milenio |url=https://www.milenio.com/negocios/toyota-inaugurara-segunda-planta-en-mexico |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref> The plant has the capacity to produce 100,000 vehicles per year and employs 1,764 people.<ref name="Juárez & Ramos 2020" /><ref name="Toyota 2020">{{Cite press release |title=2020 Toyota Operations North America Fact Sheet |date=December 2020 |url=https://www.toyota.com/content/dam/tusa/usa/operations/toyota-operations-map-north-america.pdf |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref>
Between 2020 and 2021, Toyota wound down production of the Tacoma at its San Antonio plant as production increased in Guanajuato.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 May 2020 |title=Toyota to Shift Tacoma Production to Mexico |language=en-US |work=MEXICONOW |url=https://mexico-now.com/toyota-to-shift-tacoma-production-to-mexico/ |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref>
==Products made== * Toyota Tacoma (2020–present)
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{{Toyota Motor Corporation}} {{Toyota factories}} {{Automotive industry in Mexico}}
Category:Toyota factories Category:Motor vehicle assembly plants in Mexico Category:Companies based in Guanajuato