Mississppi may never build a Prius

That site requires registration and a fee.

 

I just registered and got on, no fee required.

 

Your title is misleading.

 

How? After reading the article, it seems to me that Mississippi may, in fact, never build a prius...

 

It is unfortunate if the Prius is not built in a US plant because the latest tax code has a credit for US built hybrids...don't quote me but believe the figure is $3500. Only reason I know this is because in March when the new tax code came out I was purchasing my 2009 and researched any tax credits. With Toyota vehicles if the VIN starts with a "J" it was produced in Japan...if the VIN starts with a number it was produced in the US...according to my local Toyota dealer.

 

Huh..

I read the article as meaning that US production of Prius is a go, but new construction is on hold. So the Prius will be built elsewhere. For Prius advocates this MS news has zero interest.

What current Toyota production will Prius supplant ? Off hand I'd say SUV or trucks.

 

Right, in fact, any of the Prius is now built in US. The underlying message of that article was Prius may never get built in the US. However, it was mentioned that it may be built in another NA plant. I took it as another US plant... but it could be in Canada too.

 

And that's my point with the tax credit...if the Prius is built in Canada it does not qualify for the credit. Any potential buyer would weigh this into their purchase...tax credit with another hybrid or no tax credit with the Prius. The Prius already exceeded the number sold to qualify for the initial tax credits a few years ago.

Did I hear not too long ago that Prius would be built in Texas (or maybe is currently being built in Texas)...don't remember.

 

All Priuses here are made in Japan. They also make Prius in China but only for Chinese market.

I don't remember hearing about Prius being considered to build in Texas.

 

The "Messiah".....

Toyota’s outgoing President Katsuaki Watanabe called Prius a “savior†for the world’s largest automaker.......

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Toyota-GM U.S. California Plant Said to Be Considered for Prius



June 17 -- Toyota Motor Corp., after shelving plans to build Prius hatchbacks at a factory in Mississippi, is considering making the hybrid at a California plant shared with General Motors Corp., two people familiar with the plan said.
Toyota expects strong demand in the U.S., where the new model went on sale this month and is raising output in Japan. Given the time and cost to finish the half-built Mississippi facility, it may be easier to make the car at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., known as Nummi, said the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions aren’t public.
“Toyota put Mississippi in mothballs and as they look around at capacity already in place, Nummi might make sense,†said Jim Womack, chairman and founder of Lean Enterprise Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts. “Nummi builds Corollas, and now that Prius comes off the same underbody pan, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to build it on the same line.â€
Toyota’s outgoing President Katsuaki Watanabe called Prius a “savior†for the world’s largest automaker after it drew more than 80,000 consumer orders before going on sale, a rare bright spot as the company reels from its worst earnings slump in six decades. Prius was Japan’s top-selling model in May.
“The plan is still to build Prius in Mississippi as soon as demand and this economy turn around,†said Jim Wiseman, vice president of external affairs for Toyota’s North American manufacturing unit. Wiseman said he’s unaware of discussion within Toyota to build Prius in California.



Toyota-GM U.S. California Plant Said to Be Considered for Prius - Bloomberg.com

 

I hate to say it, but I'm glad I got my 2010 Prius while it was still made in Japan (and not China).

 

I saw a more recent post in a different thread that said the Prius will be built in Mississippi, but it will not be until 2011.

 

I believe the Prius is built in China for their domestic market. Don't expect manufacturing to shift anytime "soon" as the announcement left plenty of wiggle room.

 

That article's outdated. NUMMI is slated for shutdown in April, I believe. It's been causing a big stir in local news. There's currently talk of the Oakland A's building a ballpark there.

If you're taking about the Energy Policy Act of 2005, you're slightly incorrect. All hybrids received up to $3500. However, it phases out for each manufacturer after they produce 60k qualifying vehicles. Toyota and Honda hit that number a couple years ago, leaving only the Americans. Summary of the Credit for Qualified Hybrid Vehicles

 

malorn, a GM dealer, tries to find gloom & doom for Toyota, where ever he goes (supposedly builds GM's image, in his way of thinking) . The article was what ... last year? Things change. The Gen III is doing great, sales wise, so who knows what they will build, and where. Toyota is already making gestures about U.S. manufacturing as their inventories shrink.

 

Very good points about the tax credit.

That said the Nissan plant in MS has been a disaster. There were huge quality issues with the Titan/Armada/Infiniti QX, so much so they sent a team of engineers from Japan to figure out Wth (this was a few years ago). Quality has improved but it left such a bad taste the next Infiniti QX moves to a Petrol base and will be built in Japan.