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For others interested in huge, any stats available on the sizes of these exploding manufacturing complexes? Here is the wiki on one old one. Ford River Rouge Complex - Wikipedia enjoy the weekend!

 

This is a good historical video on the same plant:

 

Much is available on the internet Here are some links

Toyota Kentucky -|- The Official Website of TMMK The Kentucky Plant at one time approached 10,000 in employment, it has a Stamping Department, Plastics Department, Powertrain Department as well as the typical Paint, Body Weld and Assembly Plants found in Automotive assembly plant. It actually has 3 main Plants - Plant 1 , Plant 2 and Plant 3 that are housed in the Facility It makes the complete car from the dash, the engine to cutting and stamping the blanks for the car shell.

When you go to this website click the About tab here is a quote "Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) is Toyota’s largest vehicle manufacturing plant in the world, annually capable of producing 550,000 vehicles and more than 600,000 engines"

Here is a link to the one of the Ford Plants in Kentucky Kentucky Truck Plant

Here is a link to the other Ford Plant Louisville Assembly


Here is a link to the GM Plant for corvettes in Kentucky Bowling Green Assembly Plant | Chevrolet Corvette Assembly | Home

Here is an interesting news story on the Engineering Headquarters Toyota built right outside the Kentucky Plant Toyota unveils North American engineering HQ in Kentucky

 

Here are some other links to Southeast USA auto manufacturing if any are interested, This is not an inclusive list just asnapshot.

Kia The Plant - KMMG
Nissan Nissan Smyrna
BMW Manufacturing | BMW US Factory
Hyundia Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama

 

some here aren't willing to divulge where they are, with localized detail. Makes some wonder why ...

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Very sad

 

There is a new Aqua in Japan rocking that bipolar NiMH. It might be exported to the Asia Pacific aera, but it is mostly still around because it was really popular in Japan. For most of the world, the Yaris hybrid makes more sense economically for Japan.