TOKYO--Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.TO) has decided to start production of Lexus brand cars at its Kentucky plant as early as in 2015, Kyodo News reported out of New York without quoting sources.

The decision would mark the first move by Toyota to build the luxury vehicles in the U.S., the report said.

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