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Wednesday, Nov 4
Payoff for GM as it Posts its First Year-Over-Year Sales Increase Since January
Toyota Motor remains the second largest manufacturer selling in the U.S., with October sales down 3.5 percent when measured by the daily sales rate, which Toyota prefers to use. The industry counted 28 sales days in October '09, one more day than October '08 (because some states don't allow a...
Monday, Nov 2
Toyota Says 10 New Models in 2010; FT-86 a Scion?
If it becomes a Scion when it comes here in early 2012, it would likely be the most expensive model in that lineup, probably well over $20,000. Given what Carter said about Corolla/Camry/RAV4 volume, though, I'd bet Toyota in the U.S. is leaning toward the Scion brand instead of the Toyota bra...
Tuesday, Oct 27
American Car Quality Improves, but Asians Still Dominate
The new Honda Insight is the best-rated model, its reliability results 91 percent higher than average. The Toyota Prius is second. Scion was the most-reliable make. Honda, second place, was up one spot from last year, as was third-place Toyota. Infiniti, in fourth, was up two spots.
Wednesday, Oct 21
Tokyo Motor Show, We Hardly Knew Ye...
In 2001, you'd go look at the Nissan GT-R concept, then walk out of the main hall of the Makuhari Messe and "race" the same car from a bank of Playstation games set up in the wide corridor. This year, there was room for Playstation inside one of the main halls. The Japanese Automobile Manufactur...
Thursday, Oct 1
September Sales -- Ford Strengthens, Hyundai is up 27 Percent
Toyota-Scion-Lexus: 126,015, off 16.1 percent. Toyota Camry was off 16.2 percent, at 25,745 sold. Corolla was not far behind, off 6.6 percent, to 20,741. Prius was off just 3 percent, to 10,984. Scion xB was off 51.4 percent (1,539), xD was off 63.4 percent (912) and tC was off 55.9 percent (1,232).
Tuesday, Sep 1
August Sales: Will Cash For Clunkers Help Autumn Numbers?
DETROIT - Ford Motor Company's August sales were up 17 percent (21 percent retail) over August 2008. Toyota Motor was up 10.5 percent and American Honda rose 14.2 percent. Like last month, Toyota outsold Ford in the United States, 225,088 to 176,323 (not including Volvo). General Motors' sal...
Tuesday, Jun 2
May Sales: Hummer Outsells Civic … to Chinese Heavy Duty Truck Manufacturer
Toyota-Scion-Lexus: 152,583, off 38.4 percent. Toyota division accounted for 135,661, off 39.0 percent. Toyota Prius was off 30.2 percent, to 10,091. Camry is still ahead of Fusion, with 31,325 units, off 36.6 percent. Toyota doesn't total up sales of all Scion models.
May Sales: Hummer Outsells Civic … to Chinese Heavy Duty Truck...
TVNZ Total sales of GM's Core Four was 168623, still ahead of Ford-Mercury-Lincoln's 155954 and Toyota-Lexus-Scion's 152583. Chevrolet alone sold 127510, still below Toyota division's 135661 and the Ford brand's 137167. Ford execs were ecstatic about that ...
