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...



sorrry just couldnt resist

 

^^^ LOL

 

I think these guys work in the upholstery dept...

 

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

 

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:



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

 

OK, here is a pic from Takaoka:

 

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.

 

some more picks of them backing the seats.







macking the TC.

 

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

 

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