Supply-chain problems have reached the usually imperturbable Toyota, but the San Antonio plant that will assemble the eagerly awaited 2022 Tundra will go on as scheduled.
- Instead of building 900,000 vehicles in September, Toyota said this week it will make around 540,000. It’s the first massive drop for the automaker, which so far has been weathering the pandemic storm relatively well.
- In North America, production in August and September will drop by up to 170,000 vehicles.
- There is one North American plant that will keep running at full steam, and that’s the one that will build the new Tundra, which is finally being updated with a new generation after well over a decade.
Until this point in the pandemic, and despite the troubles other automakers faced with a lack of components, especially semiconductor chips, Toyota has managed to keep its production plants running relatively smoothly. One big reason for this was a strategic shift the automaker made following the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The updated plan relied less on the “just in time” component delivery system Toyota had used for decades and more on stockpiling components for use in emergencies.
Who the hell can afford new vehicles?????? Wait, I have an idea………………………………………..a new car for getting the JAB!!!!!!!
It’s a good time to lease if you can even get what you want. You’ll actually make money at lease’s end as used prices appreciate.