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Automotive News & Views Toyota in 2008
2074 messages, Last post on Jul 23, 2008 at 3:14 PM
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Apr 14, 2008 6:44 am) 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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Slump results in a five month delay in production start-up. Toyota delays planned start for Mississippi plant (Reuters)
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Replying to: steve_ (May 12, 2008 1:46 pm)
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Replying to: nippononly (May 12, 2008 6:17 pm) 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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Replying to: gagrice (May 12, 2008 6:22 pm) 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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Replying to: nippononly (May 12, 2008 7:49 pm) |
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Replying to: nippononly (May 12, 2008 7:49 pm) Low rolling resistance tires and revised fuel maps, mainly. They didn't do anything on the automatics (yet).
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Replying to: bumpy (May 13, 2008 8:48 am)
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Replying to: nippononly (May 13, 2008 1:42 pm) They could have done this stuff any old time they felt like it, but they had no real incentive until now. |
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that in the latest APEAL survey (the survey that basically asks customers how much they liked their purchases and how likely they would be to buy the same vehicle again) results from JD Power, Toyota as a brand was way below average? Other less-than-savory results: among luxury brands, Lexus was last except for Infiniti and Acura (if you count Acura), falling behind MB, BMW, Jag, and Porsche. 3 of its biggest-volume models, Corolla, Camry, and RAV4, weren't even in the top 3 in their respective categories. At least Tacoma, Tundra, and Sienna made into the top 3 (in what are not large categories, especially vans), but Honda beat Tacoma and Sienna. The good news: Toyota did manage to get 3 best-in-class with the FJ Cruiser, Sequoia, and Lexus IS. Not exactly the meat and potatoes of Toyota's profit base, but at least it wasn't empty handed... http://www.jdpower.com/autos/articles/2008-APEAL-Study-Results
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