Buying Guide
Most Toyotas sold in the U.S. are built in the U.S. Here’s which plant builds each model for 2026, how to read your VIN to confirm it, and what “American-made” really means for a Japanese automaker.
Toyota is a Japanese company, but most of the Toyotas on American roads were built in Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Mississippi or Alabama. Toyota operates 11 U.S. manufacturing plants and has built more than 34 million vehicles here. The Camry, Corolla, Corolla Cross, Highlander, Grand Highlander, Sienna, Tundra and Sequoia are all U.S.-assembled, and as of mid-2026 the RAV4 Hybrid is too. Trucks, hybrids and a few specialty models come from Mexico, Canada and Japan. Toyota itself is a publicly traded Japanese company, not owned by any individual, family or foreign government.
Last reviewed: October 2026. Plant assignments change with model years; we check this page quarterly against Toyota’s published plant data.
Final-assembly plant for U.S.-market vehicles. Some models are built at more than one plant; your VIN tells you which (see below).
| Model | Where it’s built | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Camry | Georgetown, Kentucky | All-hybrid for 2025+. Kentucky is Toyota’s largest plant anywhere. |
| Corolla / Corolla Hybrid | Blue Springs, Mississippi | Mississippi added Corolla Hybrid production. |
| Corolla Hatchback | Japan | Not built in North America. |
| Corolla Cross / Cross Hybrid | Huntsville, Alabama | Mazda Toyota Manufacturing joint-venture plant. |
| RAV4 / RAV4 Hybrid | Georgetown, Kentucky · Ontario, Canada · Japan | Redesigned for 2026 and hybrid-only. Kentucky started building RAV4 Hybrid in June 2026; Canada and Japan also supply the U.S. |
| RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid | Japan | Toyota hasn’t announced North American PHEV assembly. |
| Highlander / Highlander Hybrid | Princeton, Indiana | An all-electric 2027 Highlander begins production in Kentucky in late 2026. |
| Grand Highlander | Princeton, Indiana | Toyota is adding Grand Highlander capacity in Indiana. |
| 4Runner | Tahara, Japan | Imported. |
| Sequoia | San Antonio, Texas | Hybrid-only (i-FORCE MAX). |
| Tacoma | Guanajuato and Baja California, Mexico | Toyota announced a $3.6B San Antonio expansion to move Baja Tacoma production to Texas starting around 2030. |
| Tundra / Tundra Hybrid | San Antonio, Texas | Engines from Huntsville, Alabama. |
| Sienna | Princeton, Indiana | Hybrid-only. |
| Prius / Prius Plug-in Hybrid | Toyota City, Japan | Imported. |
| Crown / Crown Signia | Toyota City, Japan | Imported. |
| bZ / bZ Woodland | Japan | Formerly bZ4X. Imported. |
| C-HR (2026 electric) | Japan | Imported. |
| Land Cruiser | Japan | Imported. |
| GR86 | Gunma, Japan | Built by Subaru. |
| GR Corolla | Japan (reports of added U.K. production from mid-2026) | Imported. |
| GR Supra | Graz, Austria | Built by Magna Steyr; production reported to end in 2026. |
| Mirai | Japan | Hydrogen fuel cell. Imported. |
Sources: Toyota’s U.S. facility pages, Toyota Motor Corporation’s Japan production-site list, and Toyota Canada. Where Toyota hasn’t published a U.S.-specific plant assignment, we’ve used Toyota’s global plant data and noted it.
Kentucky
Georgetown · since 1988
Camry, RAV4 Hybrid, 2027 Highlander BEV, engines. About 10,000 employees; Toyota’s largest plant worldwide.
Indiana
Princeton · since 1998
Highlander, Grand Highlander, Sienna, Lexus TX. More than 7,000 employees.
Texas
San Antonio · since 2006
Tundra and Sequoia. A second line and 2,000+ jobs are coming for Tacoma.
Mississippi
Blue Springs · since 2011
Corolla and Corolla Hybrid. About 2,400 employees.
Alabama
Huntsville
Corolla Cross (with Mazda) and the engine plant that supplies Tacoma, Tundra, Highlander and more.
North Carolina
Liberty · opened 2025
Toyota’s first U.S. battery plant, supplying hybrids, plug-ins and EVs.
Toyota also builds engines and transmissions in West Virginia, cylinder heads in Missouri, and engine blocks in Tennessee. Across the border, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario) builds the RAV4 and several Lexus models, and two Mexican plants build the Tacoma.
It depends on what you mean. Toyota Motor Corporation is headquartered in Toyota City, Japan, and its North American headquarters is in Plano, Texas. Toyota has operated in the U.S. for nearly 70 years, employs roughly 50,000 people here, and in November 2025 announced up to $10 billion in additional U.S. investment, bringing its total to nearly $60 billion.
By the measure most shoppers care about, where the vehicle is assembled and where its parts come from, several Toyotas rank among the most American-made vehicles sold. In the 2026 Cars.com American-Made Index, Toyota placed 14 vehicles on the list, more than any other automaker, with the Camry, Tundra and Corolla Cross Hybrid all in the top 20. The index weighs assembly location, U.S. and Canadian parts content, U.S. factory employment, and engine and transmission sourcing.
Short version: Toyota is a Japanese company that builds most of its U.S.-market vehicles in the U.S.
Toyota is not owned by any one person, family or country. Toyota Motor Corporation is a publicly traded Japanese company, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (ticker TM), with shares held by institutional investors, affiliated companies such as Toyota Industries, and millions of individual shareholders. It is not Chinese-owned and never has been; it is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spin-off of his father Sakichi Toyoda’s loom-manufacturing business, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (today’s Toyota Industries). The spelling was changed from “Toyoda” to “Toyota” for the car company. The Toyoda family still holds a small stake and a founding role; Akio Toyoda, Kiichiro’s grandson, is chairman of the board, and Kenta Kon has been president and CEO since April 2026. The largest single shareholder is a Japanese trust bank holding about 13% on behalf of pension and investment funds; no individual or family controls the company.
Toyota is the largest automaker in the world by volume, building roughly 10 million vehicles a year across more than 50 plants in about 28 countries. In the U.S., Toyota Motor North America (Plano, Texas) runs sales, engineering and the 11 U.S. manufacturing plants listed above.
Look at the first character of the 17-character VIN. It’s on the driver’s-side dashboard (visible through the windshield), the driver’s door jamb sticker, and your registration and insurance card.
| VIN starts with | Built in |
|---|---|
| 1, 4 or 5 | United States |
| 2 | Canada |
| 3 | Mexico |
| J | Japan |
| W | Germany (Supra: built in Austria, badged under BMW’s “W” code) |
The door-jamb label also lists the country of final assembly and the percentage of U.S./Canadian parts content, as required by the American Automobile Labeling Act. For a full decode, use the free NHTSA VIN decoder.
No. Every Toyota sold in the U.S. is built to the same standard, carries the same factory warranty, and is serviced the same way. Toyota’s U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Japanese plants all use the Toyota Production System. The plant matters for the “American-made” question, not for how the vehicle will hold up.
Shop by Model
Where the plant is only part of the decision. These guides cover what each model costs out the door in Enfield and how to choose a trim.
Common Questions
Toyota builds vehicles in Japan, the United States, Canada, Mexico and about two dozen other countries. For the U.S. market, the Camry, Corolla, Corolla Cross, Highlander, Grand Highlander, Sienna, Tundra and Sequoia are assembled in Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Indiana and Texas. The RAV4 comes from Kentucky, Canada and Japan; the Tacoma from Mexico; the 4Runner, Prius, Crown, bZ and Land Cruiser from Japan.
No single owner. Toyota Motor Corporation is a publicly traded Japanese company (NYSE and Tokyo: TM) held by institutional investors, affiliated companies such as Toyota Industries, and individual shareholders. It was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda, and his grandson Akio Toyoda is chairman. Toyota owns Lexus and Daihatsu, holds Hino through a joint holding company with Daimler Truck, and has minority stakes in Subaru, Mazda and Suzuki.
Japanese. Toyota Motor Corporation is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Its North American arm, Toyota Motor North America, is based in Plano, Texas, and operates 11 U.S. manufacturing plants with about 50,000 U.S. employees. Most Toyotas sold in the U.S. are assembled in the U.S.
No. Toyota is a Japanese company and has never been owned by a Chinese company or the Chinese government. Toyota does operate joint-venture plants in China that build vehicles for the Chinese market, as every major automaker does, but none of those vehicles are sold in the U.S.
Camry (Kentucky), Corolla and Corolla Hybrid (Mississippi), Corolla Cross (Alabama), RAV4 Hybrid (Kentucky, as of June 2026), Highlander and Grand Highlander (Indiana), Sienna (Indiana), Tundra and Sequoia (Texas). Toyota’s U.S. plants also build engines, transmissions, batteries and the Lexus ES, TX and NX.
Toyota counts 11 U.S. manufacturing plants: vehicle assembly in Kentucky, Indiana, Texas and Mississippi, plus the Mazda Toyota joint-venture plant in Alabama; engine and component plants in Alabama, West Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee; a battery plant in North Carolina; and TABC in California. Together they have built more than 34 million vehicles.
Yes. The Tacoma is built in Mexico, at Toyota’s Guanajuato and Baja California plants. Its 2.4-liter turbo engine comes from Huntsville, Alabama. Toyota has announced a $3.6 billion San Antonio, Texas expansion that will take over Baja’s Tacoma production starting around 2030. A Tacoma VIN starting with 3 means Mexico.
Japan. Every 4Runner, including the redesigned 2025-and-newer generation, is built at Toyota’s Tahara plant in Aichi Prefecture and imported. Its VIN starts with J.
Princeton, Indiana, at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, alongside the Grand Highlander and Sienna. The all-electric 2027 Highlander will be built in Georgetown, Kentucky.
The redesigned 2026 RAV4 is built in Georgetown, Kentucky; Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario; and Takaoka, Japan. The first VIN character tells you which: 1, 4 or 5 is Kentucky, 2 is Canada, J is Japan. The RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid comes from Japan.
Georgetown, Kentucky, at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Toyota’s largest plant in the world. The Camry has been built there since 1988 and is hybrid-only as of the 2025 model year.
No. Every Toyota plant, whether in Japan, the U.S., Canada or Mexico, runs the same Toyota Production System and builds to the same specification. Long-term reliability data does not separate Toyotas by assembly country, and the factory warranty is identical regardless of where the vehicle was built.
Check the first character of the VIN: 1, 4 or 5 means the U.S., 2 means Canada, 3 means Mexico, J means Japan. The sticker in the driver’s door jamb also states the country of final assembly and the percentage of U.S. and Canadian parts.
Kentucky-built Camrys and RAV4s, Indiana-built Highlanders, Texas-built Tundras. Every new Toyota on our lot is priced out the door, with the $649 documentation fee already included.
