From what I have read, the Tahara plant assembles a quality automobile. I believe this is where the new FJ will be assembled. It's reassuring to hear how the Tahara plant is #1 in quality.
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"It is the benchmark of benchmarks: Toyota Motor’s untouchable Tahara plant on Japan’s eastern coast. In 2003, for the second year in a row, J.D. Power and Associates bestowed its highest honor — the platinum award for best quality worldwide — on the Tahara factory that produces Lexus and Toyota vehicles.
Tahara sets and demands the highest standards. Toyota, already a stickler for quality, will not accept components if defects exceed 50 per million parts shipped. In contrast, for Lexus vehicles, Tahara managers insist on fewer than 10 defects per million parts.
From the outset, former plant manager Kousuke Shiramizu, now executive vice president in charge of product and product engineering, established that the margin for error for Lexus vehicles would be half what it was at Toyota."
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"It is the benchmark of benchmarks: Toyota Motor’s untouchable Tahara plant on Japan’s eastern coast. In 2003, for the second year in a row, J.D. Power and Associates bestowed its highest honor — the platinum award for best quality worldwide — on the Tahara factory that produces Lexus and Toyota vehicles.
Tahara sets and demands the highest standards. Toyota, already a stickler for quality, will not accept components if defects exceed 50 per million parts shipped. In contrast, for Lexus vehicles, Tahara managers insist on fewer than 10 defects per million parts.
From the outset, former plant manager Kousuke Shiramizu, now executive vice president in charge of product and product engineering, established that the margin for error for Lexus vehicles would be half what it was at Toyota."
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