Toyota plant suspends Prius production after fire - GreenHybrid

lkewin · #1 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 05:50 AM

As reported by AFX News Limited in Forbes Magazine.

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TOKYO (AFX) - Toyota Motor Corp said one of its plants in central Japan has been forced to halt production of the Prius hybrid and other popular vehicles for at least a week after a fire damaged an assembly line.

Toyota Auto Body normally assembles about 1,000 finished vehicles a day at the Fujimatsu Factory, about one-quarter of which are Prius gas-electric hybrids.

After the blaze which broke out late on Monday, the company is assessing whether the halt will cause a delay in vehicle supply, a Toyota spokeswoman said.

'We have suspended production, except for some parts to be supplied to other factories,' she said, adding that it would take 'at least a week' to resume production.

AshenGrey · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 06:30 AM

Maybe the result of Big Oil operatives funded by the Bush CIA?

Well... probably not. But it would make an *awesome* conspiracy theory, ha ha!

tbaleno · #3 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 07:21 AM

Or Toyota knowing it can't compete with the 06' HCH so they are trying to limit supply to drive up prices.

bwilson4web · #4 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 08:43 AM

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Or Toyota knowing it can't compete with the 06' HCH so they are trying to limit supply to drive up prices.

Fine by me . . . protects the Blue Book value of my 2003. Of course that means there'll be more Civic's showing up in the Ebay 'Prius' listings with "Just like a Prius." Funny how we don't see Prius listing in EBay under 'Civic' with "Just like a Civic". . .

Which one is the "My hybrid is better than yours" forum?

Bob Wilson

tbaleno · #5 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 09:11 AM

JeromeP · #6 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 01:25 PM

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t happens! Oh well, they will get back in production as soon as they can.

However, it doesn't mean an end to Prius supply. There are two plants making them in Japan. One at Toyota City and the other at Fujimatsu that had the fire. After doing a VIN lookup on mine, some time back for another question I had, I discovered that mine was manufactured at Toyota Auto Body in Fujimatsu. I seriously doubt that will have much impact at all. However don't be surprised if bad dealers use this is a way to again justify 3k sidestickers.