Car maker Toyota is fast becoming a successful auto company within the United States, unlike Ford and General Motors. As G.M. and Ford are closing plants, Toyota is opening new ones, at sharply lower labor costs - which still include health care and retirement plans - than its American rivals. And it is adding jobs at its existing plants, which produce 60 percent of the cars and trucks it sells here.
See "Toyota Shows Big Three How It's Done", Micheline Maynard, The New York Times, January 12, 2006