Toyota, GM joint venture over in US
June 30, 2009 by Matt Brogan
General Motors and Toyota will end its 25 year US joint venture at the New United Motor Manufacturing Plant in California this August.
The news comes as US bankruptcy court places GM’s 50 per cent share of the plant in category with the ‘old’ General Motors essentially forcing their hand.
“After extensive analysis, GM and Toyota could not reach an agreement on a future product plan that made sense for all parties,” said Troy Clarke, GM’s president of North American operations. “Accordingly, NUMMI will end production of vehicles for GM in August, and there are no future GM vehicles planned for the joint venture at this time.”
The NUMMI plant currently produces the Pontiac Vibe (pictured above), Toyota Matrix, Corolla and Tacoma (utility).
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*****PRIMO!*****
I am amazed the relationship last that long!
These joint ventures DONT work.
The WORST AUS “Toyota” in history was called a Lexen!PUKE!
Need one say more……
Cheers
F-0
Umm lets see now, NUMMI produced one GM product, and that product was a Pontiac! GM, under chapter 11 is scaling down / dumping Pontiac! Hmm I wonder why the joint venture is comming to a close?? (sorry for the cinicism :p). The funny part was people complained about the quality of the Vibe, yet raved about the Corolla and Mtrix??? Go figure??
Frugal I tend to disagree with you assesment of the worst Aus Toyota, perhaps you are not of vintage enough to remember the Corona with the Misfire Four…..
Frontman im not that old (16) but i even remember that car, My granparents had it for 3 months and sold it immediately because it was the lowest quality and most unreliable Toyota they had owned.
Hi Frontman,
Toyota were forced to take the holden engine in the Corona because of aussie build-local law. They didnt want it.
I owned a corona lift back of that era, It had the Japanese OHC 2L engine instead of the holden-2.8L-six-minuus-two-cylinders 1.9L OHV four.
The Japanese engine was definatley the least-worst. The 1.9 had no torque and no top end. The japanese engine had big torque and no top end.
incidentally, at the same time there was a 8-valve DOHC version of the Corona 2 litre (18R-G). It was actually a pretty good engine! I think you could get it from grey importers and wreckers.
Davie, I’m well aware of the reasons behind the car, however I still rate it as the worst Aust built Toyota ever. The engine doesn’t excuse Toyota from the woefull steering, interior trim (looked really nice until the sun hit it) the plastics were worse than a 120Y, and the car drove like it was on diagonally opposed skates….. Your imported hatchback was only related by similar shape and badges, the suspension geometry and everything was of a completely different class.
BTW The button plan was well after the Corona and Misfire marriage. The good Senator’s plan was introduced in ‘84, and GM married up with nissan first. The Lexan for Nova & Apollo didn’t happen till 89 when Toyota pushed the smaller Nissan out of the picture due to the succes of the Pulsar Astra twins….. (just a bit of trivia ;-))
One of the most numerous products from that joint-venture Fremont, California plant was the mid-nineties Cavalier, sold as both a Chevrolet (in the US) and a Toyota (in Japan). It looked good, so people bought it. Unfortunately due to GM build quality issues the Toyota versions bombed in the Japanese market, so a disproportionate number of them ended up as cheap, unloved used imports in a third country, New Zealand.
Some of them are still going, identified by the sort of driving etiquette displayed by owners who have even less taste in their choice of car than they do in their attitude to other road users.
You forgot the dash in the 1.9. Big old 1960’s-falcon style dash with the single speedo
FrugalOne, just cause you are a MazdaFord person.
MumbleDuck^^^^
Let me remind you/all i have NO allegiance to ANY brand.
Have a fetish for Italian cars but never purchased one.
I am a “swing buyer”, i will buy what suits my needs, and from which ever brand has the best value/quality ratio.
At the moment the sun is shining on Korea!
Cheers
F-0
Okay. What cars from South Korea do you like FrugalOne?