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City, County of Toyota Truck Plant Don’t Own Toyota Trucks

In the d’oh moment of the week category, we have the city of San Antonio,Texas and Bexar County, Texas who have hundreds of full-size trucks in their fleet, but none of them are Toyotas. Why is this odd? This area is home to Toyota Tundra and Tacoma production plant.

City, County of Toyota Plant Don't Own Toyota Trucks

The San Antonio, Texas Toyota Manufacturing Plant is a large driver in the local economy employing about 2,300 people. Seems from this picture, the plant is a large piece of the economy.

Tacoma Moving To San Antonio

The Wall Street Journal and the Contra Costa Times are both reporting that NUMMI will close in March 2010, at which time Toyota will move production of the Corolla to Canada and the production of the Tacoma to San Antonio.

The Toyota Tacoma is moving to San Antonio

The Toyota Tacoma is moving to San Antonio

Our best to employees at NUMMI – this makes our earlier declaration that Toyota is closing NUMMI official.

So, now that Toyota has made the decision, what does this mean for the Tundra? Here’s the skinny: