Toyota to shut local production

By Clay Lucas Andmark Hawthorne
Updated February 11 2014 - 8:50am, first published 12:00am
Toyota workers leave the factory after being told their jobs will be lost in 2017. Picture: FAIRFAX
Toyota workers leave the factory after being told their jobs will be lost in 2017. Picture: FAIRFAX

The end of car manufacturing in Australia — confirmed with Toyota’s announcement it would shut production in 2017, taking thousands of jobs with it — could tip Victoria and South Australia into recession, industry experts and economists have warned.

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