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Japan's auto giant Toyota Motor executive vice president Yukitoshi Funo speaks about the company's strategy in emerging market at Toyota's Tokyo office on May 25, 2012. Toyota will roll out a number of new compact cars priced around 12,500 USD in developing nations, targeting sales of more than one million of the models annually in emerging markets by 2015. Japan's biggest automaker said it would make eight new cars at plants in Thailand, Indonesia, India and Brazil.
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Lexus is leading the way in how the entire Toyota Motor Corporation should operate
To point at one or two different things would be crazy ... There are so many things that go into this. Every area of the company is better. The drivers are better, crew chiefs are better. TRD is building better engines. Every piece of the puzzle is better. We have three cars running real well, whereas before we had two. I can't say enough about the job everybody has done at MWR. And the help from Toyota has been instrumental in turning things around.
I think there are only really six big Toyota cars out here, and we've all got to work together to all run well. That's our main goal: to run well for Toyota and make them a championship contender and a championship manufacturer.More quotes »
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Toyota Prius 3rd bestselling car in 1Q
Motor Corp. 's Prius, a niche oddity when it went on sale 15 years ago, jumped to the world's third bestselling car line in the first quarter as U.S. demand and incentives in Japan turned the hybrid into a mainstream hit. Prius sales more than doubled as Toyota Read more »
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Toyota looks to growth in emerging markets
to close to 100 percent in the next few years, it said. Using locally made parts is key to cutting costs."Seeing ourselves as a Toyota belonging in each country will lead to growth," Funo said. "We become insiders."___Follow Yuri Kageyama on Twitter at http://twitter.com/yurikageyam Read more »
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Toyota quarterly profit quadruples on recovery
2009, and its U.S. sales fell last year. But its sales and market share in the U.S. have almost recovered."It's no secret that Toyota had a tough year last year due to the production fallout from the Japanese earthquake. In the last few months though, Toyota Read more »
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Toyota, Chrysler see big April sales gains
and Chrysler saw big U.S. sales gains in April, but they came at the expense of General Motors and Ford.Automakers reported their sales Tuesday. Overall, sales were likely to rise only a little above last April, and the pace has slowed somewhat since February Read more »
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Nissan cruises in China as Japan rivals play catch-up
but which has failed to catch on in China due to its hefty price premium over conventional gasoline cars. At the auto show, Toyota also debuted a China-only hybrid concept car, called "Yundong Shuangqing", that will be sold from 2015 with a hybrid system developed Read more »
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Street Toyota Scion Holds Annual Picnic
right down to the gourmet coffee. Street Toyota is the first dealer in west Texas to become Signature Certified. Street Toyota Scion has been a valuable corporate citizen in the Panhandle area. They provide support to area nonprofit organizations such as United 4:43 PM from PRWeb Read more »
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Ford: In Good Form
already started taking order for the company’s C-MAX Hybrid which is scheduled for 2013. C-Max, which directly competes with Toyota’s Prius V, is not only lower priced but is more fuel efficient too. The other introduction is that of Ford Focus Electric, which 4:30 PM from Motley Fool Read more »
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LE MANS: Toyota Hybrid Set For LM24 Test Debut
director Pascal Vasselon. “We have made the best of the situation we faced. “Le Mans is undoubtedly a great challenge for Toyota Racing in its first year but we can be satisfied with our preparations and we are certainly looking forward to the task ahead.” 3:13 PM from SPEED.com: AUTO-RACING Read more »
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Honda Pins Hopes for Revival on U.S. Sales
2.9% of sales last year but still down from a high of 9.1% in 2002. That falls between new fiscal year estimates by Nissan and Toyota for operating profits of 6.8% and 4.5% of sales, respectively. Honda has been running television ads for its popular CR-V 2:46 PM from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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An Incredible Turnaround Story in Transportation
news in the auto market emerged this week as Toyota's Prius was recognized as the third-best-selling vehicle in the world. A little more than a decade ago, the Prius began its journey as a true niche player in an SUV-saturated market. In recent years, the 1:20 PM from AOL News Read more »