2010 New Car Toyota Harrier

2010 New Car Toyota Harrier

2010 New Car Toyota Harrier






















2010 New Car Toyota Harrier






















2010 New Car Toyota Harrier






















2010 New Car Toyota Harrier






















2010 New Car Toyota Harrier

We visited the Kyushu Plant for Toyota today - very interesting - and curious. Big plant - and most of us had never seen a car manufacturing plant before. They make two cars in this plant - the Harrier (sold in America as the Lexus RX330 - and the Kruger (sold in America as the Toyota Highlander). Thirty thousand parts go into making a car, it takes 19 hours - they make about 1100 cars a day - and about 80% are exported, with most of these going to the States. The plant is new - and they will double the size in the next year for an interesting reason, we learned. There are 3500 employees at this plant - and we see the assembly part of the operation. Amazing - clean - amazingly clean - and functioning like clockwork - as you would expect in Japan. We watched from the catwalk above as the painted bodies came into the plant - and the cars move through many assembly stations on a conveyor belt receiving all the additions that make up a car. We were fascinated for some time by the robot that puts the seats into the car, and the tire robot. We have new appreciation for how much goes into car production.