Watch this video about a new Toyota Plant in Mississippi on HowStuffWorks. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour joined Toyota officials Tuesday to announce that the company has chosen a 1,700-acre site in Blue Springs, Mississippi to build its eighth North American vehicle assembly plant. The new plant, to be located just outside of Tupelo, will have the capacity to build 150,000 vehicles annually of Toyota's popular Highlander sport utility vehicle; production is scheduled to begin by 2010.