Etios production in Brazil nears end

By George Guimarães | 8/3/23 | Translated by Jorge Meditsch

Next August 31, the last Brazilian Toyota Etios will be produced in Sorocaba, SP. The Japanese manufacturer announced this Thursday, 8/3 that it will cease to produce the compact model that, since 2021, was made exclusively for export to some Latin American countries.

The end of production of the model launched in 2012 will allow to prepare the assembly line to produce a flex-fuel hybrid compact SUV that should reach the market at the end of 2024.

The manufacturer assured the end of the Etios will not take to dismissals in the plant where the Yaris hatch and sedan and the Corolla Cross SUV are also made.

Rafael Chang, the brand’s Brazilian operation president, said the new product would demand hiring 700 temporary workers, 500 in Sorocaba and 200 in the neighboring engine plant of Porto Feliz, SP.

Launched in 2012, the Etios had more than 680 thousand units produced in the hatch and sedan versions. With a conservative design and plain finishing, even for the segment’s standards, it was never a sales success. Both hatch and sedan were much behind their direct competitors.

From 2012 through 2021, 436 thousand units of the two versions were sold in the Brazilian market, 57% of them hatches. Etios’ record year was 2017, with almost 74.4 thousand deliveries, 42 thousand of them with the hatch body.

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