Toyota to invest $3.6 billion to move Tacoma pickup truck production from Mexico to Texas

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Source: CNBC

Toyota to invest $3.6 billion to move Tacoma pickup truck production from Mexico to Texas

Published Mon, Jul 6 2026 4:30 PM EDT
Michael Wayland
@MikeWayland

KEY POINTS
* Toyota Motor said it is investing $3.6 billion to move production of the Tacoma midsize pickup truck from Mexico to Texas.
* The San Antonio plant currently produces the Toyota Tundra full-size pickup truck, including a hybrid variant, and the Toyota Sequoia SUV hybrid.
* The automaker said last year that it plans to invest up to $10 billion more than previously expected by 2030 in the United States.


Toyota Tacoma trucks on the sales lot at City Toyota on Feb. 28, 2024, in Daly City, California.
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Toyota Motor on Monday announced that it is investing $3.6 billion to move production of the Tacoma midsize pickup truck from a plant in Mexico to its San Antonio, Texas, manufacturing campus.

The investment is expected to create 2,000 U.S. jobs at the facility, add a second vehicle assembly line and roughly double the size of the 2.7-million-square-foot plant by 2030, the automaker said. It will expand the plant's annual capacity from roughly 200,000 to 350,000 units, Toyota said.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/06/toyota-tacoma-truck-san-antonio-plant.html

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Something without politics for a change.

[gay texan]

1. I want a diesel with a manual shift transmission n/t

[Bo Zarts]

2. Turbo-diesel ..

And call it a Hilux

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. If Totoya brought back their trucks from the "Back to the Future" era, they

would write orders for 100,000 of them by the end of the first day.

And good evening.

[gay texan]

5. I would gladly pay an extra 10k for the Toyota racing stripes from their baja off road days n/t

[MichMan]

7. You could get them added by any graphics company for considerably less than that

[gay texan]

11. Oh i know that

Just making a point. I want toyota to build something i would like to buy instead of them selling me something they think i need

[gay texan]

4. YES. THIS.

I don't want a 10 speed automatic. I dont want an "Infotainment" thing on the dash. I just fucking want a reliable truck with 4wd.

[doc03]

8. I have 2006 Tacoma assembled in Freemont California. It has a 4L v6, auto 4x4 and 5 speed auto.

It has little electronic bs, AM/FM and CD player. Toyota recalled it 10 years ago and put a new frame on it, rear springs and
new spare carrier with a chain instead of a cable. Still runs great. At the time they were assembled in California and Texas, don't know when they moved to Mexico. It will be 21 years old in November and runs great. Not for sale.

[Vinca]

9. My husband has a 2007 and also had the new frame put in. He has no desire to trade it in for something less reliable.

[doc03]

10. Toyota says the new frames cost them $17000, Our domestic manufacturers would

never do that.

[Vinca]

19. It essentially turned the truck into a new vehicle. My husband recently had a small problem that turned

out to be a nothingburger and the mechanic looked inside the truck's motor somehow and said it was clean as a whistle. That's after 174,000 miles.

[Polybius]

6. Good to hear!

[JMCKUSICK]

12. Just conjecture here but

Be prepared for a roll out of companies "investing" in the USA between now and the election.

[kimbutgar]

14. If it really happens....

[JMCKUSICK]

15. Well, you're describing the underlying motivation,

Make things appear to be improving drastically.......only it won't really happen.

[MichMan]

13. That's great news

[fujiyamasan]

16. Sorry, politics are always involved when it comes to something like this

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/toyota-is-donating-1-million-trumps-inauguration-2024-12-24/

You might have missed this.

[Chemical Bill]

18. I also read that after January 6th...

Toyota donated the most money to insurrectionist Congress critters of any company. I don't recall the time frame on that, but it was about six months to a year after the riot.

I'm liking Hondas more lately.

[LeftInTX]

17. Good! We need the jobs here.

Trump is already plotting revenge on San Antonio.

[hamsterjill]

20. We damn sure don't need the traffic or the demands on our water, though.

n/t