Lexus SUV Factory
2Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) announced today that it will begin producing the top-selling Lexus NX and Lexus NX Hybrid compact luxury SUVs at its Cambridge, Ontario facility starting in early 2022.
"Building on our recent Toyota RAV4 announcement and our recent facility modernization investments, we are excited to announce that TMMC has been selected to produce the popular Lexus NX and Lexus NX Hybrid models for the entire North American market," TMMC President Fred Volf told Team Members and dignitaries, including the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada and The Honourable Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier of Ontario and Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, at an event earlier today.
In 2003, TMMC became Toyota's first facility entrusted to produce Lexus vehicles outside of Japan―a tremendous honour within Toyota―and has since made more than 1.3 million Lexus RX and Lexus RX Hybrid vehicles.
"Together with the company's recent investments in our facilities, today's announcement demonstrates the tremendous amount of trust that Toyota has in the Team Members here at TMMC," Volf added. "It has been an honour to be producing a Lexus model, and now we're being trusted to produce two of them."
In 2018, TMMC announced a CDN $1.4B investment (including supporting funds from the federal and provincial governments), converting its North and West plants to the company's Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform to allow for increased flexibility, further production efficiency, and superior products. This strategic investment allowed TMMC to shift its production to meet the demands of North America's rapidly growing compact SUV market, most notably through the production of the market-leading Toyota RAV4 and Toyota RAV4 Hybrid.