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Toyota Announces New Assignments for North American Manufacturing and R&D Executives

ERLANGER, Ky., Dec. 20, 2006 -- Toyota announced today new assignments for senior level managers at the company's North American manufacturing and R&D headquarters and facilities.

  The new positions are as follows: (key to acronyms follows)

  Vice President and above:
     Name          Affiliate    New Assignment       Current Assignment
  Wil James          TABC      President           Senior Vice President
  Don Jackson        TMMTX     Senior Vice         Vice President,
                               President, Quality  Quality and Production
                               and Production
  Atsushi Kume       TEMA      Senior Vice         Department General
                               President,          Manager, Global
                               Purchasing          Purchasing Planning
                                                   Division, TMC
  Kazhiro Somiya     TEMA      Senior Vice         Vice President,
                               President,          Production Engineering
                               Production
                               Engineering
  Joe DaRosa         TMMBC     Vice President,     General Manager,
                               Operations          Operations
  Shigeru Goda       CAPTIN    Vice President,     General Manager
                               Manufacturing       Myochi Plant Machining
                                                   Division, TMC
  Pete Gritton       TEMA      Vice President,     Vice President, Human
                               Human Resources     Resources & General
                                                   Administration and Vice
                                                   President, Human
                                                   Resources, TMMK & TEMA
  Naoki Kojima       NUMMI     Vice President /    Department General
                               Treasurer, Finance  Manager Financial
                                                   Accounting Dept.
                                                   Accounting Division, TMC
  Brian Krinock      TEMA      Vice President,     General Manager,
                               Production          Purchasing, Project
                               Engineering,        Management
                               Vehicle Engineering
  Chris Nielsen      TEMA      Vice President,     General Manager,
                               Purchasing, Vehicle Purchasing, Vehicle
                               Parts and Materials Parts & Materials
  Yoshihiro Uozumi   TEMA      Vice President,     Senior Advisor,
                               Corporate Strategy  Corporate Strategy

  General Manager:
  Mike Botkin        TEMA      General Manager,    Assistant General
                               Production Control  Manager, Production
                                                   Control, TMMK & TEMA
  Doug Formby        TEMA &    General Manager,    General Manager,
                     TMMI      Production Control  Production Control
                               & General Manager,
                               New Project Office
                               Preparation
  Glen Kelley        TMMAL     General Manager,    Assistant General
                               Manufacturing       Manager,
                                                   Manufacturing
  Dave Mimms         TEMA      General Manager,    Assistant General
                               Quality, Material   Manager, Quality,
                               Quality Assurance   Material Quality
                                                   Assurance
  Bill Shelmon       TEMA      General Manager,    Manager, Engineering
                               TEMA, TTC,          Design
                               Engineering Design
  Glenn Sommerville  TMMC      General Manager,    Assistant General
                               Assembly, North &   Manager, Assembly,
                               South Plant         Assembly North
                               Operations
  Marc Vallee        TMMC      General Manager,    Assistant General
                               Body, North &       Manager, Press/Weld
                               South Plant
                               Operations
  Rebecca Vest       TEMA      General Manager,    Assistant General
                               Vehicle Parts       Manager, Purchasing,
                               & Materials         Vehicle Parts &
                                                   Materials

  Acronyms:

  TEMA    Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
  TMC     Toyota Motor Corporations, Inc. (Global Headquarters, located in
           Japan)
  TTC     Toyota Technical Center
  TMMI    Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc.
  TMMAL   Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, Inc.
  TMMK    Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc.
  TMMTX   Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc.
  TMMC    Toyota Motor Manufacturing Cananda, Inc.
  CAPTIN  Canadian Autoparts Toyota, Inc.
  TMMBC   Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, Inc.
  NUMMI   New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.

Toyota established operations in North America in 1957. By 2008, Toyota will have the annual capacity to build about 2 million cars and trucks in 15 plants across North America. There are more than 1,700 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealerships in North America, which sell more than 2.5 million vehicles a year. Toyota directly employs nearly 40,000 people in North America. Toyota's investment in North America is valued at more than $17.6 billion, and annual purchasing from North American suppliers totals more than $29 billion.