Toyota’s US unit plans to export locally-assembled Camry sedans to South Korea at an initial rate of about 6,000 units a year.
The vehicles will be produced in Georgetown, Kentucky, Toyota’s largest manufacturing facility outside Japan, employing nearly 7,000 workers.
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The Camry has been the top selling car in America for 13 of the past 14 years and a best-selling vehicle around the world.
Toyota said this was the first time the US-assembled Camry would be exported outside of North America but seems to have forgotten the widespread shipments of station wagons from the US to markets such as Europe and the UK in the 1990s.
The first vehicles are scheduled to arrive in South Korea in January.
Toyota began exporting US-assembled vehicles in 1988. These exports increased 30% in calendar year 2010 to approximately 100,000 units to 19 countries. The company began exporting Indiana-made Sienna minivans to South Korea last month.
Other exports include the Kentucky-produced Avalon sedan, the Indiana-produced Sequoia SUV and the Texas-produced Tacoma and Tundra pick-up trucks.
Camry exports to South Korea will ship from the Port of Hueneme, near Oxnard, California.
The Camry is also produced at Subaru of Indiana Automotive in Lafayette, Indiana.
