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Koreans: (Hyundai, KIA)
Japanese: (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda)
European: Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, BMW

just to name a few are doing quite well manufacturing/engineering/assembling vehicles in the USA with USA labor. Toyota cannot currently meet demand for its passenger size vehicles even running full capacity at its USA Plants

Ford and GM do have problems - Why?
... and what is the difference between them and the Korean, Japanese and European Manufacturers/Plants located in the USA that are doing well?

 

Toyota does that on purpose. They make sure everything is at max capacity while being well under demand. Or should I say, they build their factories just big enough to be just under their actual demand even running at full capacity. That way nothing goes to waste. They do not overproduce, and they do not build factories that can overproduce, even though they could.

Ford, GM and Stellantis seem to think that they can build an infinite amount of vehicles and all of them will be bought, regarless of the price they put on them. They build too big of factories and too many vehicles for the demand. So, they end up with a bunch of vehicles that might sell well one year but then the next no one wants them. This leads to bigger booms and busts for them compared to Toyota, and therefore the need to cut back production.

 

That's too bad. Sometimes manufacturers miscalculated demand - failing to have suppliers deliver enough parts to meet the increased demand, causing customers to pick a different vendor instead. Sounds like Toyota didn't know their audience.

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what is the problem at gm?

 

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"Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky is Toyota’s largest vehicle manufacturing plant in the world, capable of producing 550,000 vehicles and more than 600,000 engines annually. Toyota broke ground in Georgetown, Kentucky, in May of 1986, and two years later (May 1988), produced its first Camry. Since then, more than 14 million vehicles have rolled off Toyota’s assembly lines in Kentucky, where full-time employment is 9,950. In addition to the Camry Hybrid, America’s best-selling car, Toyota Kentucky also manufactures the RAV4 Hybrid, and the Lexus ES 350 and 300h, as well as four-cylinder and V-6 engines. Toyota has invested more than $154 million in various community philanthropic and educational initiatives since 1986."