The Toyota Tacoma will soon be a Texas-built truck … again.
Toyota has announced that it is shifting some production of the USA’s best-selling midsize pickup from Mexico to its San Antonio manufacturing campus as part of a $3.6 billion expansion. The process is expected to take four years and create approximately 2,000 jobs.
Many automakers have been adding U.S. production for market vehicles sold in the market in response to the new tariff environment for imports.
Tacoma production was previously split between Mexico and San Antonio before Toyota moved all of it south of the border in 2021 to increase its capacity to build full-size pickups and SUVs in Texas. It will continue to build some Tacomas at its Guanajuato facility after Texas production begins, but has not announced how many trucks each location will produce.
“Texas is where the world builds bigger, and Toyota shows it once more with a $3.6 billion expansion in San Antonio that doubles their factory footprint and creates 2,000 new jobs,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a Toyota news release.
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“This Texas-sized investment reflects the strength of our workforce and the unmatched business advantages found only in our state. Supported by the Texas Enterprise Fund and JETI (Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation) program, this expansion will deliver economic opportunities to generations of San Antonio families and further cement Texas as the premier destination for world-class advanced manufacturing.”
The Tacoma is on pace for a record sales in year 2026 with 143,848 delivered through the first half of the year ahead of the Chevrolet Colorado (47,693), the Nissan Frontier (43,101), the Ford Ranger (34,069), the Honda Ridgeline (23,490), the GMC Canyon (22,299) and the Jeep Gladiator (19,033).
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