Final Parking Space: 1988 Chevrolet Nova Four-Door Sedan

The article traces Toyota’s U.S. manufacturing roots, contrasting its current Kentucky plant with earlier North American production collaborations. It notes that Toyota has been building vehicles at its facility in Georgetown, Kentucky since 1988, when the first Camry rolled off the line. It then looks back more than three years earlier to the NUMMI venture—New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.—where Americanized Toyota Sprinters were produced at a joint GM-Toyota operation near the San Francisco Bay. The piece uses a “discarded example” of a Chevrolet Nova as a visual link to the era, described as spotted at a car graveyard near Sacramento.