The best selling car in America for several years has been the Toyota Camry. It is a mid-size car, formerly a compact car manufactured by Toyota since 1980. In May 2006 Toyota has introduced the New Toyota Camry Hybrid; it is a hybrid version of the Camry sedan.

According to a June 7 newspaper report, Toyota Motor Corporation, the world second largest automaker, will start to produce hybrid cars in Australia and Thailand in the course of the big demand for fuel-efficient vehicles. This is Toyota’s method of saving the consumers from having high expense due to high oil price.

According to the Nikkei Business Daily, the plan is the make the Toyota Camry Hybrid later this year in Thailand and in 2010 in Australia. The Toyota Camry Hybrid is currently produced by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, in Georgetown, Kentucky. The company is planning to use the same production line that the standard Camry sedan has used.

The production upgrade aims to make 10,000 units of hybrid vehicles within three to four years for every new plant.

This new plant is planning to produce Toyota Camry Hybrids which will utilize the third generation Hybrid Synergy Drive which will debut in the 2009 Toyota Prius. It is a hybrid car technology developed by Toyota which is described as a drive-by-wire system which sends electrical signals to a control computer.

With this plan of expanding, Toyota is expected to become the world’s top automaker and therefore surpass the US giant General Motors.