Texas is new home for hybrids

[Dan McCosh]

Toyota is moving its North American headquarters from California to Plano, Texas. Where is Plano, anyway? And what is it like? Will California yuppies find peace there?

[skuthorp]

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North of Dallas.Closer to Mexican labour from across the border I expect. Best of both worlds, US commercial law and cheaper labour.
Of course I may be wrong…………………… fair distance from the border. Maybe the county offered them a good deal.

[bogdog]

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Toyota is moving its North American headquarters from California to Plano, Texas. Where is Plano, anyway? And what is it like? Will California yuppies find peace there?

Plano is in the armpit of Texas, Dallas/Ft Worthless area. Nice to see Perry "creating new jobs" for Americans. Maybe when he's President everybody can move to Texas.

[George Jung]

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Wasn't Texas one of the states 'outlawing' direct to consumer sales of Teslas? Gotta feed the machine!

[Dan McCosh]

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North of Dallas.Closer to Mexican labour from across the border I expect. Best of both worlds, US commercial law and cheaper labour.
Of course I may be wrong…………………… fair distance from the border. Maybe the county offered them a good deal.

This is the design, management, engineering center for the Western Hemisphere--staffing it with Mexican illegals would be interesting.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

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May have to encourage wife to consider alternative to Camry. I don't support corporations who move to Texas.

[skuthorp]

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You sure it's not their recall centre? Seems evert Toyota for the last 15 years is being recalled here.

[ccmanuals]

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Actually Plano is a very upscale suburb of Dallas. Lots of high end homes, restaurants and shopping. The CA yuppies will like it.

[Too Little Time]

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Texas is paying $1000/job.

[Ted Hoppe]

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Texas juries are known to be more conservative and sympathetic to corporations. it should work out for Toyota when the death and damage of their unstoppable acceleration defects of there cars start going to trial.
May backfire as capital punishment is dealt with in a more liberal manner there.

[Steve McMahon]

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Texas seems to be a favorite of Japanese companies and they do well there. I don't quite get it.

[delecta]

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Anyone here see the real problem, California. Good for Texas.

[Dan McCosh]

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Wasn't Texas one of the states 'outlawing' direct to consumer sales of Teslas? Gotta feed the machine!

Most states outlaw direct consumer sales of car. A few have written special exceptions for Tesla.

[ccmanuals]

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Anyone here see the real problem, California. Good for Texas.

Sure, moving jobs between states is not creating jobs and is not good for the country.

[Dan McCosh]

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A little research shows Plano may be the wealthiest city in the U.S. per capita.