FAW-Toyota plans to sell 400,000 vehicles next year

Shanghai. October 11 (Gasgoo.com) - FAW-Toyota plans to produce and sell 400,000 vehicles next year, an increase of 50 percent compared to this year, said a senior FAW-Toyota official.

"Starting October this year, FAW-Toyota began to implement double shifts on Toyota Corolla production, therefore FAW-Toyota's output capacity of Corolla has been greatly enhanced," said Wang Fachang, vice general manager of FAW-Toyota.

Under FAW-Toyota's latest plan, the company has raised its annual sales target to 270,000 this year, up 21 percent from one year earlier.

"Next year, Corolla will become FAW-Toyota's most important car model and FAW-Toyota will not deliever new car models to Chinese market next year," Wang said.

Besides Corolla, Corolla EX, Crown, Prado, Land Cruiser are very popular among Chinese buyers and FAW-Toyota will further expand output capacity to produce these models, Wang said.