Toyota Investing $3.6 Billion to Move Production of Its Bestselling Truck from Mexico Back to Texas
tags:- Toyota announced a plan to shift most of its Tacoma production back to Texas from its current facility in Baja, Mexico.
- Toyota also announced that it will add 2.5 million square feet to its Texas facility, more than doubling its size by 2030.
- The expansion will cost the company $3.6 billion and will add another assembly line to the San Antonio facility.
Toyota is bringing production of the Tacoma mid-size pickup back to the United States, the automaker announced. Until 2021, the Tacoma's production was split between San Antonio and two production facilities in Mexico, but the current fourth-generation Tacoma has been built exclusively in Mexico since it launched in 2024.
Toyota will invest approximately $3.6 billion to overhaul its manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas, as it prepares for the Tacoma's production return to the United States. The investment will include an additional production line and will cover roughly 2.5 million square feet, more than doubling the 2.2 million-square-foot San Antonio plant.
According to Toyota, the move is planned to take place over the next four years, with the project expected to finish by 2030, at which point the facility will start building the Tacoma. Toyota says that the new line will also bring 2000 new jobs to the facility. While the move will take Tacoma production from Toyota's Baja, Mexico, plant, the trucks that are built at the brand's Guanajuato factory won't be affected.
According to a report by Automotive News, the new facility at the San Antonio plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year. The existing plant on the Toyota campus built 197,506 Tundra full-size pickups and Sequoia full-size SUVs last year.
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