[4][failed verification] Another Carina E built at the factory clocked up 560,000 miles by November 2019 after being purchased new twenty-two years earlier.

[5] An engine manufacturing factory was opened in September 1992 in Deeside, North Wales, shortly before vehicle production commenced three months later.

[6][7] The first batch of the second-generation Avensis built at the factory was exported to Japan from Southampton in July 2003, pending the launch of the vehicle in the Far East that autumn.

[9] TMUK used the occasion to announce an investment of £100 million in its factory in Deeside, to build the petrol engine for the Auris in the future.

[12][13] Production of this model generation started the following month, and was launched by the then Secretary of State for Transport, Geoff Hoon MP.

[18] George Osborne, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, visited the Burnaston factory on 7 March 2011 to celebrate the launch of the Auris Hybrid in the UK.