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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by tohnjitor on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:25PM (#50446524)
Toyota will build this truck in Indiana.
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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by kotaKat on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:20PM (#50447102)
"Build" is a stretch of the word for them to knock down some HiJets in Japan, ship them over, then put them back together again. Toyota's PR even says they're only adding another 50 jobs with their "expansion" to build the kei in Indiana.

That is NOT a lot of people involved.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by lenerdenator on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:01PM (#50447537)
Would be interesting to know if they're built-built in Indiana, or if they're doing what Ford did with the first-gen Transit Connects: bringing them in from another country (I think it was Turkey in that case) as passenger vehicles with trim and seats, stripping them of those things almost as soon as they hit shore, and getting around the Chicken Tax that way.
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