NUMMI spokesman: Prius to NUMMI seems “highly unlikely”
By Matt Artz
Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 2:03 pm in NUMMI, Uncategorized.
UPDATE: And now the innate pessimism of maturity sets in at NUMMI. We’ll be printing this tomorrow.
I heard there was a meeting at NUMMI today. It wasn’t to announce that the Prius is coming. It was to talk about the the Vibe going.
Here’s what NUMMI Spokesman Lance Tamaso wrote:
The meeting was to inform team members that NUMMI will not manufacture the Pontiac Vibe after August 2009, but will continue to produce the Toyota Tacoma and Toyota Corolla. NUMMI will focus on building high quality vehicles and work on lowering its costs while GM and Toyota discuss NUMMI’s future direction.
We have had no indication whatsoever that Toyota has an interest in building the Prius at NUMMI. We have no idea where this rumor started. That rumor seems highly unlikely given NUMMI’s current financial situation.
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June 18th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Darn it. Well can’t miss what you never had. It was a nice wish though…
June 18th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Not so fast….
http://www.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/ci_12611834
June 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Doug,
I don’t know anything about NUMMI. For all I know it’ll get the Prius. But look at that story you posted. The reporter based it entirely on two unnamed sources from Bloomberg. It was written yesterday, hours after Reuters ran a story, with a Tokyo dateline, that quoted a Toyota spokesperson saying NUMMI wasn’t under consideration. Just saying …