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Toyota's New R&D Facility Signals Sharper Focus on India
Financial Express Kochi
|March 22, 2025
TOYOTA MOTOR IS setting up its first research and development center in India through its local unit, people familiar with the matter said, signaling the market's growing importance.
The new R&D facility will begin operations with a team of about 200 people in Bengaluru, near Toyota Kirloskar Motor's existing factory in Bidadi, one of the people said, asking not to be identified.
The team will likely be scaled up to around 1,000 engineers by 2027, the person said.
This story is from the March 22, 2025 edition of Financial Express Kochi.
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