Mississippi: Responsibility for Creating Toyota Highlanders

The search for the plant that would have the capacity and ability to create new units of the Toyota Highlander has already been carried out. And surely the search has been successful. Look, Toyota Motor Corporation has already chosen Blue Springs, Mississippi, as the right place for its new plant.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has already confirmed this exciting news. She also further said that Toyota would be building on a site measuring some 1,700 acres and that that plant would be the eighth Toyota plant to be built in the North American region. According to Toyota officials, they have said that the new facility would be responsible for building an annual number of 150,000 Toyota Highlander sport utility vehicles, as well as a good number of body parts for the various vehicles created by Toyota. As exciting as it is, the production of this vehicle will start in the year 2010 yet.

Mississippi officials anticipate that this new Toyota plant will be of great benefit to the state. One of these would be that the state will be able to obtain more income that they could use for the development of the region. In addition, officials say that Toyota promised some 2,000 new jobs that would arise due to the construction of the new facilities.

Governor Barbour is very excited about this development, saying, “We in Mississippi and especially in northern Mississippi are thrilled to have been chosen by Toyota as their partner. Toyota is the world’s leading automaker and our state will be the best partner of the world”. company has”.

Even Trent Lott, the state senator, is very excited about this good news. He was even reported to have mentioned, “We are honored that Toyota has chosen to invest in our state and grow with Mississippians. This is a partnership between one of the best companies in the world and a state that has already proven capable of attracting major defense, automotive and aerospace jobs in the world.