Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. is considering producing the Land Cruiser Prado, an advanced sports vehicle model, in China, Kyodo News reported Thursday.
Toyota may assemble the four-wheel-drive sports car at its factory in southwest China's Sichuan Province possibly in 2004, Kyodo said.
Toyota's move is a result of the huge success of its higher-grade Land Cruiser model in China.
Stimulated by China's booming vehicle market, the largest Japanese automaker has already decided to start producing small passenger cars based on the Vitz model in north China's port city Tianjin this autumn, Kyodo added.