Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana Visitors Center

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Toyoda Type-G Automatic Loom

This loom was invented by Sakichi Toyoda, the father of Toyota Motor Corp. founder Kiichiro Toyoda. You’ll explore how this loom formed the basis for the Toyota Production System.

Toyota History

Toyota traces its roots back to a loom—a machine used for producing cloth. Your visit will include a look at the Toyoda family and its role in helping a struggling Japanese textile industry meet the challenges of the day. Plus, you’ll discover how a small Japanese loom company became a worldwide automotive manufacturer. 

Tri-State History

Commerce along the Ohio and Wabash rivers brought settlers and early growth to Evansville, Princeton and the surrounding Tri-State. Visitors Center exhibits trace the region’s rich history in transportation, furniture, farming, appliances and coal. You’ll explore the area’s contribution to the automobile industry—from the first trucks to the millionth car—and you’ll see how it continues today with Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana.

Toyota Manufacturing Processes

Our award-winning sport utility vehicles and minivans start from huge coils of steel from American mills. At the Visitors Center, you’ll see how that steel, along with hundreds of other parts, largely from American suppliers, is fashioned into our high-quality vehicles. Multimedia and interactive displays will showcase how parts are delivered just in time to production lines and will guide you through our production shops: Stamping, Body Weld, Paint, Plastics and Assembly. You’ll also learn that, through it all, special attention is paid to minimizing our impact on the environment.

Toyota Growth

Toyota started as a fledgling auto manufacturer in 1930s Japan and has grown to worldwide prominence. You’ll get a glimpse into the early years of Toyota, its entry into the U.S. market in 1957, and its growth in North America, where vehicles are now developed, designed and built by Americans for Americans.

Suspended Coalescing Vehicle

This display features a 2008 Toyota Tundra suspended from the ceiling, with 180 truck parts “frozen” in place as if coming together into a completed pickup. Toyota Indiana was the birthplace of the Tundra, which is now built in Texas.