Toyota Australia has become the first Australian car maker to export over 60,000 vehicles in a single year, and remains the country’s largest car exporter.
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The record was achieved on Sunday 30 November when a shipment of Camrys left Port Melbourne on the Middle East bound ‘Ryujin’ vessel.
With exports totalling over 60,500 for the 11 months to November, Toyota has already surpassed its record 2001 export total of 59,200 vehicles and last year’s total of 49,300 exports.
Toyota Australia started exporting vehicles in 1986, shipping just over 700 vehicles for the year. Since then export volumes have rapidly increased and Toyota is Australia’s largest vehicle exporter with 66,000 vehicles worth $A1.4 billion expected to be exported to more than 20 countries in 2003.
“Our export success demonstrates that Toyota’s Australian-manufactured vehicles are high quality and globally competitive, “.
“Camry has been a great export success for Toyota Australia with more than half of the vehicles built in our Altona manufacturing plant being left-hand drive Camry exports,” said company president Ken Asano.
“Our Australian made Camry is very popular in the Middle East and is the highest selling passenger vehicle in Saudi Arabia.”
Toyota Australia export destinations include New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Sudan and South Africa.
