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New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was an American automobile manufacturing company in Fremont, California, jointly owned by General Motors and Toyota that opened in 1984 and closed in April 2010.
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Jul 17, 2015 · Host Ira Glass introduces the story of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., aka NUMMI. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production system: How it made cars of much higher quality and much lower cost than GM achieved.
Sep 1, 2009 · Nummi represented the first footstep of Toyota in US production, taken in the early 1980s, deep in the last recession. The plant never made money, but allowed Toyota to learn a lot...
Apr 2, 2010 · The GM and Toyota joint-venture plant, NUMMI, shut down on April 1, leaving behind a rich but muddy history. Here's how this auto plant changed the face of General Motors and planted its name in...
Sep 30, 2009 · It occupied old buildings with an old workforce, but NUMMI was truly reborn, with a new name (the name “NUMMI” for New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. was supposed to sound cutely like “New Me”), bosses, operating system, and character.
What happened at this factory not only illustrates some very interesting answers to that question, it captures a lot of what went wrong in the American car business in the last 35 years. This is a plant in Fremont, California, called NUMMI. NUMMI stands for New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated.
