Is Toyota Motor Sales Leaving California?

Jack Baruth
by Jack Baruth

Unconfirmed industry rumors shared with TTAC today seem to indicate that Toyota Motor Sales will be closing its offices in Torrance and heading to a more business-friendly location.


Plano, TX is the rumored destination. Supposedly, the employees will be informed on Monday. We’ll keep you posted as events occur. No reason has been given, but surely the world’s most famously company has an eye on the lower cost of living and operations in Texas.

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  • Zip89123 Zip89123 on Apr 27, 2014

    Texas sucks. Traffic is bad. There is no water. The gov is an idiot. 80% of the working population is paid minimum wage. Property taxes are high. Sales tax is high. Lemon law for vehicles favors the dealers. Tornadoes are a given as are hurricanes. Hail that can destroy a vehicle is common. Fracking is ruining the remaining water supply. Earthquakes are more common as a result of fracking. No regulations or insurance requirements to prevent your town getting leveled like West, TX did last year. Religion blocks common sense. Woman have no rights. Toll roads. I couldn't wait to leave that state. The only thing I like about TX is no state income tax. Toyota is leaving one toilet for another. Best news is Californians will get to sell their million dollar hovels and buy a mansion in TX. One other perk is no recycling b.s. like in CA.

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    • Pch101 Pch101 on Apr 28, 2014

      @28-Cars-Later What some of the ideologues miss is that state income tax is a pretty small component of the expenses of this sort of division. In this case, these people manage dealers. There are other considerations that are more relevant, such as the overall cost of living for these workers. The pay probably isn't much different in both locations, but it almost surely goes further in Texas, which makes for a happier workforce. Some jobs have to be in higher cost markets in order to attract the right workers, but I doubt that's an issue for most of the employees of this unit, which manages the dealer relationships.

  • Elimgarak Elimgarak on Apr 27, 2014

    Looks like Tyler Cowen is being proved right. The lower middle class and middle-middle class move to places like Texas. I-95 and west of the I-5 are for the wealthy, internationally mobile money, and some upper middle class.

  • EVdeath EVdeath on Apr 28, 2014

    @u mad scientist I've noticed that, despite my repeated attempts to pull you back to the subject, you continue to obfuscate the discussion. Incase you forgot the original discussion concerns the question to you; please provide evidence to support your claim that California is a business friendly state." Nothing more. You can attack every fiscal conservative participant to this post, but that doesn't change the fact that you, you sir, cannot provide one single cogent argument as to why Toyota and other companies shouldn't seek a more receptive business environment. Speaking for a lot of us on this post, may I once again add we await breathlessly, the benefit of your insight. Oh by the way it's not that we couldn't afford to stay in CA it's that we chose not to. Why in the world would I want to squander the product of our life's efforts supporting unending social engineering experiments. One party rule in CA is a economic death sentence.

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    • Xeranar Xeranar on Apr 29, 2014

      @EVdeath Job growth simplified North Dakota added 14.5K jobs New York added 108K The fight continued on in more complex terms but it is that simple. On that top growth list only one state is both fairly red and very large and that's Texas. Which probably has as much to do with the sheer size, climate, and series of medium to large cities as it's strongest growth rate. Otherwise you have Georgia which is growing but when we get down to brass tacks most of the growth is in Atlanta, the blue area of the state, Florida is purple and again shares more with Texas as a hospitable place with a series of medium to large cities. The rest of the 'high growth' red states are so underpopulated that to get into a fight over them is silly. When North Dakota is first with a little over 14K in jobs the argument loses any sense of proportionality when New York near the bottom added almost 8X that much.

  • TOTitan TOTitan on Apr 29, 2014

    EchoChamberJDM Im glad that you "left while I still had the chance….cashed out at the top and ran all the way to the bank". Good for you and good riddance. EVdeath...I was born and raised in Alaska so I know a thing or two about cold weather and snow. If you think cold and snow are conditions that ferment a better quality of life.....all I can say is that you are entitled to your opinion. I moved away from being cold all winter and wet all summer and vastly improved my quality of life. The place I moved to is Thousand Oaks, in Ventura County CA, a city of 128,000 6 miles inland from Malibu. It is one of the best places in the country to live (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/10/14/thousand-oaks-ranks-as-4th-safest-city-in-u-s/) Today I had some business to take care of at Pepperdine University....one of the most stunning places on earth to get an education. On the way back to TO I took the long way and drove Mulholland Hwy just for the hell of it because it is one of the best roads anywhere to drive if you like cars. All that jibber jabber about how great TX is and how horrible CA is sound like a lot of sour grapes now. Have a good day wherever it is that you call home.

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