pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/plants-manufacturing/" rel="tag"Plants/Manufacturing/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/2009-toyota-corolla-matrix/#32"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/08/toyota-matrix.jpg" alt="" //adiv style="text-align: center;"emstrongsmall2009 Toyota Matrix - Click above for high-res image gallery/small/strong/em/divbr /Word 'round the campfire (okay, by way of the emAsahi Shimbun/em newspaper in Japan and via emReuters/em) is that Toyota will end production at its NUMMI plant in California in March of next year. Though a spokesperson for the automaker claims no final decision has been made about an official a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/23/toyota-na-pres-inaba-hopes-for-profit-in-2011-nummi-could-be-d/"closing of the plant/a, reports indicate that suppliers have already been notified about plans to shutter the assembly lines early next year after more than a quarter century in operation.br /br /General Motors' only current contribution to the plant in California is the Pontiac Vibe, which a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/22/dampened-pontiac-vibe-production-ends-this-august/"officially ends production this month/a. Toyota is said to be moving production of the Tacoma pickup to its plant in San Antonio, Texas, and final assembly of the Corolla will reportedly join the Matrix, its hatchback sibling, in Ontario, Canada and a factory in Japan.br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-corolla-matrix/low/"2009 Toyota Corolla Matrix/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-corolla-matrix/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/10/00matrixsemalive_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-corolla-matrix/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/10/00matrixsemalive2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-corolla-matrix/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/10/00matrixsemalive3_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-corolla-matrix/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/10/00matrixsemalive4_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-corolla-matrix/low/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/10/00matrixsemalive5_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE57G00Q20090817"Reuters/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/17/report-toyota-to-end-production-at-nummi-in-march/"REPORT: Toyota to end production at NUMMI in March/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:40:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE57G00Q20090817Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/17/report-toyota-to-end-production-at-nummi-in-march/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19131613/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/17/report-toyota-to-end-production-at-nummi-in-march/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SFOJovkTXYyd7YIe3SK72fC-8tk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SFOJovkTXYyd7YIe3SK72fC-8tk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SFOJovkTXYyd7YIe3SK72fC-8tk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SFOJovkTXYyd7YIe3SK72fC-8tk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=un_uwFmXHVU:HmSipMblv6A:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=un_uwFmXHVU:HmSipMblv6A:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=un_uwFmXHVU:HmSipMblv6A:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=un_uwFmXHVU:HmSipMblv6A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/un_uwFmXHVU" height="1" width="1"/

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