2018 Toyota Auris will be BUILT IN THE UK
The 2018 Toyota Auris will be built in the UK, at Toyota’s Plant at Burnaston, just as the current generation Auris is, confirms Toyota today.
The current Toyota Auris is built at Toyota’s Plant in Burnaston, but with the ongoing Brexit uncertainties there have been concerns Toyota would shift production of the new Auris to elsewhere in the EU.
But this morning Toyota has confirmed that the new Auris will be built in the UK at their Derbyshire Plant, and that the Toyota engine plant in Deeside, North Wales, will be the main source for its engines.
Although there have been concerns around Toyota’s UK production, Toyota’s investment of some £240 million in Burnaston announced last year so it could build cars based on the new TNGA Platform – which will underpin the new Auris, and is already used in the new Prius and C-HR – did make it unlikely there would be any big shift from UK production.
But Dr Johan van Zyl, TME CEO, did caution about the future as he made the announcement that Auris production will stay in the UK. He said:
As a company, we are doing what we can to secure the competitiveness of our UK operations as a leading manufacturing centre for our European business. With around 85 per cent of our UK vehicle production exported to European markets, continued free and frictionless trade between the UK and Europe will be vital for future success.
The new Toyota Auris will be revealed in Geneva on 6 March 2018.
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