Toyota Prefab Homes Units
Toyota is one of the world’s most successful and well-known car manufactures. Most of people all know that toyota produce mass cars, but do you know they also made homes? Toyota homes are mass produced like Toyota cars. About 85 percent of the work on the metal-frame cubicles is finished at the plant. Most Toyota homes are made from six or more of these large cubicles, which are assembled — like Legos — on the building site. From its start on the factory floor to its final completion on site, a Toyota home can be built in 45 days, less than half the time it takes for contractors to build a typical wooden-frame home.
The cubicles called units vary in size, with the bigger ones measuring 20 feet long. An average Japanese home requires 12 units. A buyer chooses from several designs, ranging from sleek modern to standard fare with tiled roofing and balcony windows.
Most Japanese homes have a life span of just 30 years, compared with 55 years in the U.S., according to the Japanese government. Toyota guarantees its homes for 60 years, a feature that will help sales if Japanese lawmakers approve the tax break for durable homes. According to the Toyota managing officer, right now Toyota has no ambitious plans to build homes outside Japan.
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