pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/plants-manufacturing/" rel="tag"Plants/Manufacturing/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-autos/idUSTRE50G0E820090117"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/toyota_fact_clo.jpg" //aAs the economic slowdown gains steam and people continue to buy fewer cars, manufacturers are hitting the brakes a little harder on production levels. Toyota is a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/06/toyota-plans-11-day-plant-shutdown-in-japan/"shutting down plants in Japan/a for 11 days, and more closures could come as the company says it will make half the number of cars from February to April as it did last year. That would take Toyota down to 9,000 cars per day as it grapples with ballooning inventory. With the near-term future predicted to be even bleaker and the need to align production with sales, we probably haven't seen the end of factory stoppage announcements.br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-autos/idUSTRE50G0E820090117"Reuters/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/20/toyota-to-cut-japanese-production-in-half/"Toyota to cut Japanese production in half/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:01:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-autos/idUSTRE50G0E820090117Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/20/toyota-to-cut-japanese-production-in-half/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1433940/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/20/toyota-to-cut-japanese-production-in-half/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VVPLTmTTccnIgv8tO8aehaEIwqY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VVPLTmTTccnIgv8tO8aehaEIwqY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=eCunXgSy"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=eCunXgSy" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=HlXP5kuZ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=HlXP5kuZ" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/XRWA3TJ3Py4" height="1" width="1"/

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