Tokyo, Japan, June. 12, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation announced today that Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (SFTM), a joint vehicle-production company established with China FAW Group Corporation (FAW) in China in 2005, has added a second version of the Land Cruiser Prado to its production lineup, raising SFTM's overall annual production capacity from 20,000 units to 23,000 units.
The newly added version of the Land Cruiser Prado - the higher-grade Land Cruiser Prado VX - started rolling off the line today at SFTM's Chengdu Plant, which also makes the Land Cruiser Prado GX(*1). Both versions are for the Chinese market; until now, the Land Cruiser VX sold in China was only made in Japan.
Like the Land Cruiser Prado GX, the Land Cruiser Prado VX is to be sold through FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.'s approximately 220 authorized dealers, which started accepting orders from customers today. The Land Cruiser Prado VX is priced at 558,000 Chinese yuan (approximately 7.87 million yen).
With this latest development, Toyota's total annual vehicle production capacity in China now stands at 343,000 units. Outline of SFTM

:confused: why not just buy a real cruiser:thumb:

exactly, and drive a better built car since is built in Japan, and enjoy a better resale value 5-8 years down the road, and better image too since its not a copy:D

Did you even read the news? FAW Sichuan is one of Toyota's joint companies. They will not produce "a copy" but the real thing.

Toyota announced today that the Crown luxury sedan manufactured by Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (TFTM) recently received China's first-ever five-star safety rating in collision safety tests performed by the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC).


The automobile market is expanding rapidly in China and motorization is advancing at a brisk pace, with social consciousness of automobile collision safety also on the rise. To respond to these developments, CATARC adopted the China New Car Assessment Program (C-NCAP), a system for testing vehicle collision safety. The center has been conducting tests of vehicles sold in China and publicly announcing the results since last year.

As the Toyota brand flagship vehicle in China, the Crown went into production at TFTM in March of 2005. A total of approximately 70,000 Crown vehicles have been sold through FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd. (FTMS) to date, and the Crown has been praised by customers in China for its high quality, high performance and reliability.

To contribute to the realization of an affluent automobile society, Toyota vigorously conducts research and development designed to enhance vehicle safety performance and adopts the resulting technologies on a wide range of its products. As one aspect of these efforts, Toyota is actively introducing advanced vehicles in the Chinese market that meet the rigorous collision safety standards of Toyota's original Global Outstanding Assessment (GOA) system.

Does anyone know if C-NCAP ended up with similar tests to the Euro NCAP or did they end up using lower collision speeds?

The speeds are lower, and looking at the chart I have to conclude that somehow the extremely bad cars can still get a lot of 'points' in the Chinese test.
I mean 2 stars for the Geely, that thing almost crushed itself after doing the full widt frontal at only 56km/h... :nono:

Thanks, I suspected it would go that way, they should have made them the same and just accepted that their current cars would have low scores. This way nobody knows what they mean so will assume all chinese cars are bad whatever the score. :nono:

This is for the domestic market only. They probably adjusted the requirements so that no car could ever get less than 2 stars unless it was made of cardboard.
Think about the public opinion, what if every chinese car tested scored only 1 star? It's all politics, they don't want to disqualify their own products....

LOL :D

Congrats to FAW Toyota :)

As the Toyota brand flagship vehicle in China, the Crown went into production at TFTM in March of 2005. A total of approximately 70,000 Crown vehicles have been sold through FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd. (FTMS) to date, and the Crown has been praised by customers in China for its high quality, high performance and reliability.


Lmao, good news here:D i bet the 70,000(approx) chinese Toyota crown buyers looks down on their countrymen driving around in Geely, cheery etc.:lol: Well done Toyota:thumb:

Does anyone know if C-NCAP ended up with similar tests to the Euro NCAP or did they end up using lower collision speeds?

I would prefer to wait until the euro-ncap test results are announced.I only trust them for now.

Toyota announced today that the Crown luxury sedan manufactured by Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (TFTM) recently received China's first-ever five-star safety rating in collision safety tests performed by the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC).


The automobile market is expanding rapidly in China and motorization is advancing at a brisk pace, with social consciousness of automobile collision safety also on the rise. To respond to these developments, CATARC adopted the China New Car Assessment Program (C-NCAP), a system for testing vehicle collision safety. The center has been conducting tests of vehicles sold in China and publicly announcing the results since last year.

As the Toyota brand flagship vehicle in China, the Crown went into production at TFTM in March of 2005. A total of approximately 70,000 Crown vehicles have been sold through FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd. (FTMS) to date, and the Crown has been praised by customers in China for its high quality, high performance and reliability.

To contribute to the realization of an affluent automobile society, Toyota vigorously conducts research and development designed to enhance vehicle safety performance and adopts the resulting technologies on a wide range of its products. As one aspect of these efforts, Toyota is actively introducing advanced vehicles in the Chinese market that meet the rigorous collision safety standards of Toyota's original Global Outstanding Assessment (GOA) system.
Anyone kind enough to advise which china car maker offer right hand drive :)

Good resale value of Japanese cars? Probably correct for 5-8 years. But after 10 years, no one will buy cars made in Japan because even Japanese will buy cars made in China. (How many parts of a Japanese car is made in Japan???)

Major success from Toyota!
TOYOTA Motor Corp yesterday announced that sales of its Reiz sedan topped 100,000 units in China over the past two years and played a key role in achieving aggressive sales in the world's second largest auto market.

The mid-to-high class sedan was locally built by FAW Toyota, a joint venture formed by Toyota and China's First Automotive Works Group, and hit the market in 2005 as the first Chinese-made front-engine, rear-drive sedan in China.

It has been competing with Ford's Mondeo, General Motors Corp's LaCrosse, Nissan's Teana and Honda's Accord in the premier car market expanding at over 20 percent growth year on year. Toyota introduced revamped Reiz sedans in China in October including the sporty edition of its 2.5V Reiz.

Toyota to lift capacity in Changchun up to 200,000 by 2013:
http://www.autohome.com.cn/news/200803/34902.html


March 7, 2008 – FAW-Toyota is planning to invest RMB 3.6 billion ($502.79 million) to expand capacity in Changchun, the capital city of Northeastern province of Jilin, Shanghai Securities News reported today.

The investment will be used to expand the FAW Fengyue plant and help lift Toyota’s capacity in Changchun to 200,000 units by 2013, according to the report.

The expansion project will be started in May this year and is expected to start production by the end of next year. The second phase will be finished and start production by 2013, Shanghai Securities News cited government sources as saying.

After the expansion, Toyota’s annual capacity in Changchun will be lifted to 200,000 units by 2013. Toyota vehicles based on Corolla platform, including Toyota Auris and Toyota Wish, will be produced in Changchun plant.

Currently, Toyota’s plant in Changchun has a total capacity of 10,000 vehicles, where Toyota Land Cruiser and Prius are produced.

The Changchun plant is a three-way joint venture: FAW Auto holds a 50% stake; Toyota Motor Corp 45% and Toyota Tsusho Corp 5%.

Currently Toyota has three joint ventures: Tianjin FAW Toyota, Sichuan FAW Toyota and Guangzhou Toyota. The three joint ventures operate five plants in China.

Tianjin FAW Toyota Co. operates two plants in Tianjin: Plant No.1 currently builds Corolla and Vios, a sedan variant of the previous-generation of Yaris and Plant No. 2 builds the Crown and Reiz upscale sedans. The letter is derived from the Japan-market Mark X, according to China Automotive News

In Changchun, Jilin province, Sichuan FAW Toyota has the capacity to build 10,000 Land Cruiser SUVs and Prius hybrid cars, with 500 workers.

In Chengdu city, Sichuan FAW Toyota has the capacity to build 13,000 Coaster small buses and Land Cruiser Prado SUVs, with 1,300 workers.

Guangzhou Toyota now has a capacity to produce 200,000 Camry vehicles and compact sedan Yaris will be produced in Guangzhou this year. In November, Chinese authorities have approved Guanghou Toyota's plan to build a second plant in Guangzhou. The total capacity of Guangzhou Toyota, after the completion of the second plant, will reach half a million annually.
Shanghai.

Toyota to build Lexus in China?

June 4, 2008 -Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's largest auto makers, plans to invest RMB 1.5 billion to boost production capacity of the No. 2 plant of Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co Ltd, according to Toyota's recent announcement. A new production line may be built to make Toyota's new model Lexus locally in China.

The plant's production facilities, which principally specialize in producing Reiz and Crown, are expected to produce 150,000 vehicles upon the completion of the investment, up 50% compared with the current 100,000 units, the statement said. It will also establish R&D center to further intensify its research and development power of car models.

In addition, Toyota may consider building Lexus production line in China if the model's annual sales reach 30,000 units, said a senior executive at Toyota's China venture. In the first ten months of 2007, Toyota sold 22,102 units of Lexus, a sharp increase of 136% from a year earlier. Sooner or later, Lexus will be locally made for the fast-growing Chinese market, and the second plant of Tianjin FAW Toyota is seen as the best facility for this mission.

Tianjin FAW Toyota has three plants in China, producing its best-selling models such as Vios, Corolla, Reiz and Crown. The total capacity of these plants is 420,000 vehicles annually.

source: Gasgoo.com

it was just a matter of time till toyota built lexus in china, every big market nation does and eventually they cant send imported lexus cars to meet chinas demand..too much money to ship

Toyota builds new China plant

2008-10-27

Toyota Motor Corp said on Monday it would build a new, 4 billion yuan ($584 million) factory in China with local partner FAW Group Corp, bringing its planned local production capacity to 1 million vehicles a year.




The factory in Changchun, Toyota's sixth with the FAW Group, will produce 100,000 Corolla cars a year, adding to Toyota's current capacity of 643,000 cars a year in the world's second-biggest auto market. The 50-50 partners, which held a groundbreaking ceremony for the plant on Monday, have not decided when production would begin.


Toyota has already announced plans to expand two of its other car plants with FAW. It also has plans to add a second, 120,000-units-a-year line at its factory in Guangzhou with its other local partner, Guangzhou Automotive, in mid-2009, eventually raising the line's capacity to 200,000 units a year.


The planned additions and expansions would bring Toyota's annual output capacity in China to 1.01 million vehicles a year.


Toyota, the world's biggest automaker, is targeting sales of about 1 million cars annually in China soon after 2010. It also imports all of its Lexus luxury models into China.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-10/27/content_7145938.htm

FAW Toyota which postponed building a new Changchun-based plant back in May 2009 now will go ahead and build the plant which is expected to be completed in 2011 or 2012 with a capacity of 100,000. The RAV4 will be the first product of this plant.