Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, Inc. (TMMI) is an
automobile manufacturing factory located nearly halfway between
Princeton, Indiana and
Fort Branch, Indiana,
USA. It is part of
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA), owned by
Toyota Motor Company of
Japan.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana was built in 1996 in order to begin production of a full-size pickup truck solely for the U.S. Market. TMMI began production of the
Tundra began in 1999 for the 2000 model year, and
Sequoia production began a year later for the 2001 model. Both the Tundra and the Sequoia were new to the market and have only been sold in North America. The Tundra replaced the
Toyota T100 in the U.S. market.
In 2003, production of the
Sienna minivan shifted to TMMI for the release of the 2004 Sienna, while
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky produced the
Solara in place of the Sienna.
On July 10, 2008, Toyota announced that they would consolidate Tundra production at
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas in
San Antonio after 2008, and that due to the large unsold supply of Tundras and Sequoias, production of both Tundras and Sequoias would be suspended. Toyota also announced that production of the
Highlander would be shifted to TMMI and would start in 2009; the new facility Toyota is building in Mississippi will now build the
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