Toyota Australia Scales Down Car Production
The bad news is that Toyota Australia is scaling back in production but the good news is that they are not announcing any immediate job cuts. That is for now. The global car industry is in a deep downturn and figures released this week show February was the worst month for car sales in Australia since 2003. Sales were down 22 per cent from last year.
Toyota’s Max Yasuda has told ABC1’s Inside Business the company is hoping its new green cars will help generate a recovery in the market early next year.
“Our first priority, even in these difficult times, is to keep our workforce … to keep our jobs,” he said.
He says federal and state governments should commit to using the green car when it is released.
“This is the most serious challenge that we’ve faced … in the 50-year history of Toyota Australia,” Mr Yasuda said.
“I think we have to invent something that we have never done before in terms of production system as well as … in terms of how to sell a car.”
(Source) ABC News
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