Toyota To Expand North American Engine-making Capacity Options

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Toyota Motor Corp. will invest $147 million to expand the capacity of its Huntsville, Ala., plant to produce four-cylinder engines.

Toyota said Friday that it will hire at least 240 new employees, bringing the plant total to more than 1,000.

Starting in 2011, the Alabama factory will have the capacity to produce 577,000 four- and six-cylinder engines.

Toyota will invest another $25 million in two U.S. casting plants and hire up to 60 people to increase North American output of cylinder heads and blocks.

The automaker will fit Toyota Camry cars and RAV4 SUVs with four-cylinder engines built in Alabama, it said.