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The one-millionth locally built Toyota was produced in 1992. In 1994, all vehicle manufacturing operations were moved from Port Melbourne to Altona. The last vehicle produced at the Port Melbourne plant was a Toyota Camry and the first vehicle produced at the Altona plant a Toyota Corolla. Port Melbourne continued performing minor operations.
The Toyota Tiara was the first Toyota model assembled by AMI. Australian Motor Industries assembled the first Toyota car built outside Japan in April 1963, the Toyota Tiara. [15] Assembly of Toyotas by AMI expanded in the 1960s to include the Crown, Corona, and Corolla at the Port Melbourne facility.
The Toyota Australia Altona Plant opened in 1978, as Toyota's first engine plant outside of Japan. [1] [2] Panel production began in 1983, before full vehicle production commenced in July 1994 with manufacture of the Corolla transferred from Port Melbourne followed in January 1995 by the Camry.
Walkinshaw Group is an Australian company involved in the design, engineering, development, and marketing of performance vehicles, based in Melbourne, Australia. Walkinshaw Group was established in 1987 in Clayton, Victoria . [ 1 ]
The first Melbourne Motor Show was started on 30 April 1925. [1] Until 1996 it was held at the Royal Exhibition Building then moved to the new Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre complex, in Southbank. [1] The 2009 show was the last to operate under the "Melbourne International Motor Show" title.
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As a successor to the GM-engineered Holden Camira, the Apollo was a badge engineered version of the Toyota Camry, also sold in Australia. [2] In paralleling two generations of the Camry—the V20 coded as the JK and facelifted JL series Apollo—and the XV10 recoded as the JM and updated JP—there were minor cosmetic differences in the grille ...