Where are toyota cars made in europe. Our european story may have started in a very modest way with small numbers of imported vehicles brought here in the early 1960s but since those days we have invested in making europe one of our most important and vibrant global markets not just for selling cars but a place for designing engineering and building them too. We believe it is important to make cars local to where they are sold a philosophy we apply in europe where we have nine manufacturing sites in seven countries producing nine different models aygo yaris auris toyota c hr camry rav4 and for export only land cruiser plus engines and transmissions. In 1992 toyota began full production of cars and engines in. 5 cars that are faster at the nurburgring and 5 that are slower where are.
This means the companys operations in europe be they manufacturing research and development or marketing are generally located within the continent to serve the local market. Toyota manufacturing uk in partnership with rapid electronics organise the toyota technology challenge a national engineering and technology competition which is aimed at secondary schools within the united kingdom. In fact 8 out of 10 toyota cars sold in europe are built at one of our european production centres too. We have six vehicle plants located in france yaris the uk corolla turkey toyota c hr and corolla the czech republic aygo russia camry and rav4 and portugal land cruiser for export.
Toyota is a huge car manufacturing company that is based in japan but toyota cars have factories all over the world. The first car built in the region was a corolla assembled from a knock down kit by salvador caetano in portugal in 1971. Toyota cars are built at all of these locations. The most prominent plants are located in asia north america and europe.