Toyota produces Asian car

Toyota produces Asian car

TOKYO (Reuters): Toyota Motor Corp. said yesterday that it has begun production of a multi-purpose vehicle for the Asian market, Toyota Unser, in Malaysia.

The new vehicle will be available on July 17 with two types, one with a 1.8 liter gasoline engine and the other with a 2.4 liter diesel engine, a Toyota spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman said that the vehicle will be assembled at UMW Toyota Motor Sdn. Bhd.

Toyota expects to sell a little less than 1,000 units of the vehicle before the end of this year, she said.

More than half of the auto parts for the vehicle are procured in the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, she said. South Korea's second largest conglomerate