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Toyota Australia has just built its one millionth Camry, a jet black luxury
Azura with sports suspension which rolled off the assembly line at Toyota's
Altona manufacturing plant.
The Camry is fitted with the company's new Toyota Link car-to-base
communications system.
Camry now comprises almost half the total production of all Toyotas built in
Australia since the company began local manufacture 41 years ago.
In April this year Toyota Australia celebrated the production of its two
millionth locally made vehicle.
Camry production has set an all time record for the company in Australia.
The one millionth Camry was built after just 18 years production here, at an
annual average rate above 55,000.
Camry began local production in 1987 at Port Melbourne and moved to the
ultra-modern Altona factory, Australia's first green fields car manufacturing
site in more than a quarter of a century , in 1995.
Accelerating local demand and growing export opportunities have driven
Camry's local production.
Camry four is Australia's most in-demand medium passenger vehicle, and the V6
Quad cam is the third largest selling large car.
In 2003 Toyota's Camry established an export record for the company and for
all Australian motor vehicle manufacturers.
Toyota exported 66,200 Camrys, from a total factory production run of 113,614
Camry and Avalon models.
Australia was one of the first countries outside Japan to build Toyota
vehicles.
The first Australian made car, a Toyota Tiara, rolled out of the company's
old assembly line in Port Melbourne in April 1963.
It took 29 years to build the first million Toyotas in Australia and only 12
years to build the second million.
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