The Japanese News Digest reports that Toyota and its subsidiary Daihatsu are planning to jointly build a plant in India to produce small cars with engines smaller than 1,000 cc.

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Production at the plant, which will have an annual capacity of 100,000 cars, will start in 2007 at the earliest, the report said.
 
In 1999, Toyota set up a joint venture named Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Ltd in Bangalore, India. The joint venture produced approximately 47,000 cars of Toyota’s two passenger car models in 2004.

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