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Toyota to remanufacture cars up to three times in UK

Burnaston, which builds the Toyota Corolla hatchback and estate, could help cars have even longer lives

Felix Page
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2 mins read
7 January 2022

Toyota will begin comprehensively refreshing ex-customer cars at its UK manufacturing facility as part of a drive to add value to vehicles throughout their life cycles.

Agustín Martín, president and managing director of Toyota GB, gave Autocar the first details of a new process that Toyota will implement as part of its new fleet-focused mobility sub-brand, Kinto. He said: “We need to stretch the way we look at life for both the vehicle and the customer.

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GavJ 14 January 2022
As direct sales continue to grow with the likes of Cazoo and Cinch proving it is viable and very lucrative, it's clear Toyota want to have a piece of the pie.

It's only a matter of time before all car sales will go online.
You will order your new car online. It will get picked up at the end of the rental period. Refurbed and sold again online.

Brightly lit dealerships will be a thing of the past and replaced by cheap "service centres" on industrial estates.

All this run on staff at a smidgen over minimum wage.

Fred_4x4 11 January 2022

Why ? In Australia Landcruisers 20 years old or more with over 500 000 KM on them are not uncommon ....Seriously though it would be nice if Toyota would make things like long engines or crate engines from older models available as it would help people maintaining older models. For example, 1HD-T and 1HD-FT engines ..

Strawman_John 10 January 2022
3 year old cars do not and should not need a remanufacture. Sorry but this sounds like Toyota setting up a facility to give ex lease cars a tart up and resell. There is a strong threat that for cars there will be even more of a move to leasing models so Toyota are trying to keep all the money in-house. Fair enough but remanufacture sounds about as misleading and green washing as calling petrol hybrids you cannot plug in self charging rather than the reality of being petrol powered hybrids.

Real remanufactured vehicles would be end of life ones brought back to usable status, 10 year old plus cars. This is not offering to extend the vehicles life so is not real remanufacturing. Is it just tidy up and resell or put on lease again.