Toyota will radically revamp its fabled manufacturing system beginning with the car plant it plans to open in 2019 in Guanajuato, Mexico, a top corporate official says.
"This factory will be the kind of benchmark or model for the future -- not technology but the future way of producing new cars," said Didier Leroy, Toyota Motor Corp. executive vice president, in an interview at the auto show here.
Toyota had time to ponder its next move after CEO Akio Toyoda halted new plant projects in the wake of its 2010 recall crisis. The company also said it wanted to improve capacity . . .
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