Two of Toyota’s Chinese joint ventures have recently switched over to manufacturing the latest generation Yaris and RAV4.

A Toyota and GAC plant in Guangzhou has now begun building the third generation Yaris, a car which first entered production at two Japanese plants in December 2010 (Toyota Vitz in Japan), followed by Valenciennes in France from July 2011.

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The fourth generation RAV4 had its global debut at the LA motor show in November 2012. It is manufactured at the Tahara plant in Japan’s Aichi prefecture, and at Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Canada’s Woodstock site in Ontario. The RAV4 for China is being built by the FAW Toyota joint venture but unlike the third generation model, it is manufactured at a plant in Changchun rather than in Tianjin.

China’s RAV4 is offered with the choice of two four-cylinder petrol engines, the 2.0-litre 6ZR-FE or 2.5-litre 5AR-FE. The smaller unit is built in a factory adjacent to the RAV4 plant in Jilin province, while the 5AR-FE is made at GAC-Toyota’s Nansha factory in Guangzhou.

Author: Glenn Brooks

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