NUMMI breaks annual production record!

[IMakeVibes]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld...1.htm NUMMI sets annual vehicle production recordFremont's NUMMI plant has made 400,000 vehicles in one year for the first time in its 21-year history.Second-shift workers at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. made that vehicle, a red 2006 Toyota Corolla, on Monday. The line kept moving, but NUMMI President and Chief Executive Yuki Azuma, local United Auto Workers Vice President Sergio Santos and two workers posed for a ceremonial photo.Azuma noted that NUMMI broke its record at a time when ``some auto plants have been reducing production and announcing layoffs and closures.'' He credited the efficiency of NUMMI's workers for the feat.The plant, a Toyota-General Motors joint venture that opened in 1984, assembled 395,672 cars and trucks in 2003.The production record comes despite recent frigid weather in the Midwest and South that suspended first-shift production at parts manufacturers last Wednesday, and threatened to do the same this week. Sub-zero temperatures broke railroad engines and buckled tracks and stranded parts for the Corolla, Toyota Tacoma and Pontiac Vibe ``in the middle of nowhere,'' said spokeswoman Rhonda Rigenhagen. The plant has scheduled production for Saturday to catch up, she said.

[scherry2]

congrats! just goes to show what toyota can do with the help of the UAW.

[binary]

Quote, originally posted by scherry2 »congrats! just goes to show what toyota can do with the help of the UAW. You mean what the UAW can do with help from...SMACK!Owww... I was only joking, scherry!But hey, that's pretty cool.

[IMakeVibes]

Quote, originally posted by scherry2 »congrats! just goes to show what toyota can do with the help of the UAW. Hey hey hey, don't forget about us. Cars don't make themselves ya know!!!

[scherry2]

Quote, originally posted by IMakeVibes »Hey hey hey, don't forget about us. Cars don't make themselves ya know!!! ? your not UAW? your on the managment side? thats O.K. if you are Binary stated: "You mean what the UAW can do with help from..."yes that too.

[vibe-04]

Don't forget about the consumer, all of us. We buy them cause they are a solid design with high quality at an affordable price. And to boot good gas milage. Now if GM/Ford/Chrysler can get back to designing cars that people want then there wouldn't be any plant closing and union/non-union and mgmt layoffs. If you build it they will come, keep building them NUMMI!

[kostby]

400,000! That's outstanding!Now if they'd just slow down the production line enough to put a good coat of paint on all of 'em! j/k

[IMakeVibes]

Quote, originally posted by scherry2 »? your not UAW? your on the managment side? thats O.K. if you are Binary stated: "You mean what the UAW can do with help from..."yes that too. Oh no, I didn't mean it like that. Yep I'm UAW. I just meant that its not just the UAW alone responsible for that achievement. There are many of us worker bees involved in the process as well. But I know what you meant. You meant to say "congrats!just goes to show what toyota can do with the help of the UAW and hard working employees."

[IMakeVibes]

Quote, originally posted by vibe-04 »Don't forget about the consumer, all of us. We buy them cause they are a solid design with high quality at an affordable price. And to boot good gas milage. Now if GM/Ford/Chrysler can get back to designing cars that people want then there wouldn't be any plant closing and union/non-union and mgmt layoffs. If you build it they will come, keep building them NUMMI!Thanks for the positive vibes!!!

[IMakeVibes]

So the unofficial production total for NUMMI for '05 was 417, 505. That beats our last highest year of '03 by almost 22,000. Thats pretty close, should have an official number soon.

[BlueCrush]

Congrats! That's 60 more cars per day!!!

[IMakeVibes]

NUMMIs official production total for '05:Corolla - 185,729Tacoma - 169,617Vibe - 62,159Total - 417,505

[joatmon]

Quote, originally posted by IMakeVibes »NUMMIs official production total for '05:Corolla - 185,729Tacoma - 169,617Vibe - 62,159Total - 417,505TMMC for 2005 had Corolla- 152,253Matrix- 80,251RX 330 - 73,219 Total - 305,723so you beat them on Corollas and overall, but you let them make more Matrixes than you made Vibes

[BlueCrush]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »TMMC for 2005 had Corolla- 152,253Matrix- 80,251RX 330 - 73,219 Total - 305,723so you beat them on Corollas and overall, but you let them make more Matrixes than you made Vibes That will change in the future because Toyota will be getting rid of the XRS in a couple years. I wonder if GM will also be getting rid of the GT?

[vibe-04]

So the Matrix is made at NUMMI and in Cambridge Ont. Interesting?The following is from Toyota's website.####################New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.Manufacturing plant in Fremont, California. Established in 1984.NUMMI, a Toyota/General Motors joint venture, manufactures the Corolla and Tacoma for Toyota, and the Pontiac Vibe for General Motors. The plant has an annual capacity of 390,000 vehicles.Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Inc.Manufacturing plant in Cambridge, Ontario. Established in 1986.TMMC builds the Corolla, Matrix and Lexus RX 330 for North America. Four-cylinder 1.8-liter engines for the Corolla and Matrix are also assembled at TMMC. It is the first plant outside of Japan to produce Lexus vehicles and has an annual capacity of 250,000 vehicles and 150,000 engines.

[IMakeVibes]

Quote, originally posted by BlueCrush »That will change in the future because Toyota will be getting rid of the XRS in a couple years. I wonder if GM will also be getting rid of the GT?Ummmmmmmmm . . . check out one of my other recent posts. You just might be on to something.Quote »So the Matrix is made at NUMMI and in Cambridge Ont. Interesting?Nope, not sure where you got that from. We make the Corolla, Tacoma and Vibe at NUMMI and TMMC makes the Corolla, Matrix and RX 330. Although, we do make parts for TMMC at NUMMI and TMMC makes parts for us at NUMMI.