Toyota wants to ship left-hand drive cars from India

With its Indian plants running at 50% capacity, it has plenty of scope to ramp up exports

Japanese auto major, Toyota, plans to make India a larger export base by shipping left-hand drive cars from the country. Currently, the Indian subsidiary of the world's second-largest vehicle maker produces only right-hand drive cars and exports some of these.

"We just produce right-hand drive cars in Indian plants. We would want to be an export hub for left-hand drive vehicles in the future," Akito Tachibana, managing director at Toyota Kirloskar Motor told Business Standard in an interaction. For Toyota's India-made right-hand drive cars the international market is limited, as cars in most countries have steering on the left hand side.