GAC Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Guangzhou, China and a joint-venture between GAC Group and Toyota Motor Company for manufacturing Toyota's model platform in the Chinese market. It was founded on 1 September 2004.
History
The company was founded in 2004 as Guangzhou Toyota, and began production in May 2006 with the Aurion-based Camry model.[1] The company began producing the Yaris in May 2008, the Highlander SUV in May 2009, the Camry Hybrid in April 2010, the E’Z in June 2011 and the Levin in July 2014.[1] The company was then renamed to GAC Toyota in December 2008. GAC Toyota covers an area of 1.87 million square meters and has a construction area of 440,000 square meters. As of June 2010, there are more than 6,800 employees.