{"id":294506,"date":"2025-11-20T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294506\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:05:09","slug":"toyota-ceo-akio-toyoda-goes-maga-at-japan-nascar-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294506\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda goes MAGA at Japan NASCAR race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra discusses the impact of auto tariffs and building the business on ‘The Claman Countdown.’<\/p>\n

Toyota’s CEO went full MAGA during a red, white and blue NASCAR event in Japan<\/a> over the weekend, ahead of a major announcement to increase investment in U.S. manufacturing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Akio Toyoda was spotted at Toyota\u2019s Fuji Speedway on Sunday wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap and a T-shirt supporting President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the crowd, spectators waved American flags and U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass made an appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda wearing MAGA garb with U.S. Ambassador George Glass at a racetrack in Japan.\u00a0 (U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass \/ Instagram \/ Fox News)<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not here to argue whether tariffs are good or bad. Every national leader wants to protect their own industry,” Toyoda, a racer and car enthusiast, said ahead of the endurance race, according to Automotive News.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We are exploring ways to make tariffs a winner for everyone. The people we want most to be winners are our customers,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the carmaker said it would invest $10 billion in the U.S. on “future mobility efforts,” weeks after Trump<\/a> made a similar statement during a visit to Japan.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Toyota announced a nearly $1 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing to increase hybrid vehicle production.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Close-up of sign with logo on building facade at the San Francisco regional headquarters of automotive company Toyota in the Bishop Ranch office park in San Ramon, California. ((Photo by Smith Collection\/Gado\/Getty Images) \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“Customers are embracing Toyota\u2019s hybrid vehicles, and our U.S. manufacturing teams are gearing up to meet that growing demand,” Kevin Voelkel, Toyota Motor North America senior vice president of manufacturing operations, said in a release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Toyota\u2019s philosophy is to build where we sell, and by adding more American jobs and investing across our U.S. footprint, we continue to stay true to that philosophy,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among its investments in the U.S., Toyota will invest $453 million toward its Buffalo, W. Va., plant to increase production of four-cylinder, hybrid-compatible engines.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump listens as first lady Melania Trump speaks at a signing ceremony for the “Fostering the Future” executive order in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 13 in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Another $204 million will go toward the company’s Kentucky plant to ramp up production of 4-cylinder hybrid-compatible engines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra discusses the impact of auto tariffs and building the business on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-294506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}