Been out there looking for pictures from within the scion plant in Japan, just to see them getting made. Can't seem to find anything very public as far as PR for this.
has anyone run accross any or seen vids of the assembly?
thanks

closest picture i found
halfway building the box...
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9703/17/cuba/assembly.line.lg.jpg


sorrry just couldnt resist :rofl: :P :doh:

^^^ LOL

I think these guys work in the upholstery dept... :silly:
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/clipart/jpeg/IndiaLarge/sweatshop_mumbai.jpeg

:rofl: yea i make seat covers for you!!!! the upolstery department in pakistan :rofl:

I've been trying to find pictures of the factory too.

I can tell you this, the xB/bB and xA/Ist are both built in the Takaoka plant. It opened in 1966 and currently employs 6000 people.

The address of the Takaoka plant is:

1 Sanko, Honda-cho, Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, JAPAN

The plant general manager is Shinichi Sasaki

That's all I could find... I'd love to see some pics though, damn it.

All I've been able to find is some maps, one picture from inside (a meeting in an anonymous meeting room in the plant) and this basic layout drawing:

http://tijil.org/takaoka_plant.gif

It would be nice to see some pics of the boxes being made...

OK, here is a pic from Takaoka:

http://www.toyotageorgetown.com/images/gbl/boosting.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/RPMxB/takaoka1.jpg
Takaoka Plant in Japan

RPM

my brother works at numi (new united motors?)here in fremont california.....they build the toyota voltz and ship it to japan. i can ask him if they have any pic's of the plant or the box being made...i know they send workers to japan to help out at a toyota plant. ..(what im waiting for ) it should be the plant your talking about....if he goe's ill have him take spy pic's......

The Voltz is a cousin of the Matrix/Vibe, which are also built out of the Nummi plant. . . before those cars, that plant was incharge of the previous generation Corolla/Chevy-Geo Prism. I believe the Corolla has moved to a new plant, and the Prism has been dropped from Chevy. It's New United Motors because it is a joint venture plant with GM.

NICE PICS!!! lol

Voltz is the Pontiac Vibe, but with Toyota badges, exported to the JDM.

I beleive NUMMI also builds the Tacoma, right?

Great thread... lots of laughs.. thanks

I laughed out loud at work, thanks now everyone is looking at me funny.

God, I hope they aren't in charge of the Tacoma. . . I have a personal thing against Nummi. . . will never buy a car made out of that plant.

:rofl:

some more picks of them backing the seats.

http://puregold.cooltrap.com/pictures/sweatshops.jpg

http://www.dw-world.de/dwelle/allgemein/bilder_show/0,3772,73437_6,00.jpg

http://www.asia-pacific-connections.com/images/Car-manufacturing.jpg

macking the TC. :lalala:

the second pic doesn't even look like a Toyota! What car is that? It looks like a Hyundai Accent

Man we can take over this plant if we wanted to, we have all the photos needed, all we need is the time that everyone goes to lunch so we can take some cars!! :D

the second pic doesn't even look like a Toyota! What car is that? It looks like a Hyundai Accent

It's a pretty primitive looking factory, so yeah, I'm thinking Korea.

Man we can take over this plant if we wanted to, we have all the photos needed, all we need is the time that everyone goes to lunch so we can take some cars!! :D

I'm with ya Gabe, lemme know when this is going down.

Man we can take over this plant if we wanted to, we have all the photos needed, all we need is the time that everyone goes to lunch so we can take some cars!! :D

When we toured the Cavalier/Sunfire plant in Lordstown, Ohio... we asked one of the line workers if we could have some of the Toyota Cavalier tail lights. He said "if you think you can get them out of here, I go to break in 10 minutes".

As I was leaving the line, after getting the part numbers for the tail lights, some lady in charge of that section of line checked my "promo pack" from the plant that had a few brochures in it. Opened it up and everything... guess she thought that 1/8" thick bag had some tail lights in it. :rofl: :rofl:

love the funnies, but no, nobody has your pictures...

Yeah, it is frustrating.

Perhaps we could appeal directly to Toyota? I know that the people who run VWVortex actually got a tour of a factory, complete with pictures and all.

I am certain if the people running this site, which we know is watched by Scion/Toyota executives, asked for some pictures of the factory, that it would not be a problem. I'm sure Toyota's PR dep't would be happy to provide pics of Scion's being built. It could only help their sales and promote their image.

What do you all think?

I agree! we should see if someone can get a tour of the plant and post some pics, I also know of the relationship that vwvortex has with VW and we need that sort of relationship with folks on this board!

Any updates in the search for some pics of bBs getting assembled. I've been searching with no luck at all. :doh: