- #1897 of 2025
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Re: Toyota outsells GM globally in Q1 [louiswei]
by grandtotal
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Apr 24, 2008 (2:53 pm)
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Replying to: louiswei (Apr 24, 2008 1:47 pm)
So, you think that Toyota may be lying about their sales numbers for political reasons. This despite the fact that they have shareholders who tend to take a dim view of lying by companies these days. Let's for one moment suppose that this is the case, having done that they then tell their US dealers the truth confident in the knowledge that none of their employees will leak this 'true' information. Well, they really misread one of their dealers because Mackabee has let the truth slip out.
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- #1898 of 2025
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Re: Toyota outsells GM globally in Q1 [grandtotal]
by mackabee
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Apr 24, 2008 (4:30 pm)
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Replying to: grandtotal (Apr 24, 2008 2:53 pm)
They didn't hide this fact from anyone. Automotive news reported it.
Mack 
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- #1899 of 2025
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Re: Toyota outsells GM globally in Q1 [grandtotal]
by mackabee
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Apr 24, 2008 (4:32 pm)
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Replying to: grandtotal (Apr 24, 2008 1:24 pm)
"Let me see, who am I going to believe? Someone who posts on an internet forum or Toyota? Hmm, tough one, but I think I'll go with Toyota. "
You said it.
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- #1900 of 2025
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Re: MOVING FORWARD IN RECALLS [imidazol97]
by kdhspyder
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Apr 25, 2008 (12:03 pm)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Apr 14, 2008 6:44 am)
Actually over the last 4 years Toyota has had the least number of recalls of all the major 4 makers. On balance though last year GM had the lowest number, just below Toyota. Ford and Chrysler seemingly can't get out of their own way still.
However on balance most of these recalls from all makers are on vehicles built in the late 90's through 2005. But what many of the mudslingers don't comprehend is that TREAD has changed the entire automotive environment. Google it.
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- #1901 of 2025
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Tupelo Mississippi Flash (in the pan?)
by steve_ HOST
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May 12, 2008 (1:46 pm)
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Slump results in a five month delay in production start-up.
Toyota delays planned start for Mississippi plant (Reuters)
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- #1902 of 2025
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Re: Tupelo Mississippi Flash (in the pan?) [steve_]
by nippononly
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May 12, 2008 (6:17 pm)
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Replying to: steve_ (May 12, 2008 1:46 pm)
The article mentions they are setting aside even more money for cash incentives for SUVs and pick-ups. Whoa, they are definitely going to reach levels tht are very much unprecedented for Toyota.
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- #1903 of 2025
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Re: Tupelo Mississippi Flash (in the pan?) [nippononly]
by gagrice
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May 12, 2008 (6:22 pm)
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Replying to: nippononly (May 12, 2008 6:17 pm)
Maybe their supply of the big stuff is where GM was in 2005 when they were just trying to get rid of inventory. They got that big new Tundra factory in San Antonio to justify to the honchos in Japan. What do you mean you spent billions on a plant for trucks nobody in the USA wants? Welcome to the fickled American buying public.
Just put those trucks and big SUVs in a storage yard. In a couple years it will be a gold mine.
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- #1904 of 2025
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Re: Tupelo Mississippi Flash (in the pan?) [gagrice]
by nippononly
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May 12, 2008 (7:49 pm)
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Replying to: gagrice (May 12, 2008 6:22 pm)
Well, to be fair nobody wants the American trucks either. GM is up to $4000 and climbing on the Silverado and Tahoe, Ford and Dodge are desperately trying to figure out how to clear out '07 and '08 inventories to make room for the revised '09 models.
I suppose Toyota will try to match them, but in the end everyone will lose, especially Ford, for whom the F-150 was the biggest cash cow in the barn and who has reinvested in their cow right at the moment half of everyone has stopped buying cows that large.
That reminds me, I was going to look up this Cobalt XFE they keep advertising on TV - 36 mpg? Is that for real? If so, kudos to GM for hearing the message and doing something about it. Now it's time for Toyota to get its heart and hands back in the FE game and produce some gas models with more mpgs that cost less than those hybrids...
Edit...well, indeed it seems GM has upped the FE ante: the Cobalt 5 speed manual matches the Corolla 5 speed for FE! The automatic is still quite a bit lower-rated, but even so they didn't compete so closely before. I wonder what GM changed on the Cobalt. Impressive. Of course, the new Corolla didn't help itself when it DROPPED two mpg points from the old '08 to the revised '09 model.
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- #1905 of 2025
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Big trucks ain't sellin' [nippononly]
by gagrice
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May 12, 2008 (8:22 pm)
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Replying to: nippononly (May 12, 2008 7:49 pm)
There is a lesson to be learned by all of the Big 4. The first to market with a full sized truck and SUV with a small diesel engine will be back on top. No doubt in my mind. A full sized PU getting 30+ MPG on the highway will sell as fast as they can build them. They need to use a 5 or 6 cylinder diesel under 3.0 Liter. They have plenty of power to pull a 1/2 ton PU frame and a good sized trailer.
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- #1906 of 2025
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Re: Tupelo Mississippi Flash (in the pan?) [nippononly]
by bumpy
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May 13, 2008 (8:48 am)
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Replying to: nippononly (May 12, 2008 7:49 pm)
I wonder what GM changed on the Cobalt.
Low rolling resistance tires and revised fuel maps, mainly. They didn't do anything on the automatics (yet).
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