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ScottS · 07-10-2008, 12:05 AM

Very selective reading folks.

It's one thing to not be selling cars because your product mix is wrong and only a couple cars out of many are near class-leading.

It's another when your problem is that your car plants have more demand than production can meet. From the article, "They're maxed out in production of Corolla and Camry cars in North America." A coworker told me Tuesday that his son went to order a Prius and by time they get to his order, it may be a few months and it will likely be an '09 model.

Apples and oranges. Yes, the Tundra was ill-timed in retrospect, but it's not like the rest of Toyota's lineup was full of mediocre cars, and even the mediocre cars they have carry cache from Toyota's built up reputation.

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ScottS 3.8 Liter Supercharged V6 Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 702	Re: Toyota sputters as market shifts; Like Big 3, has too many Trucks, Lacks Small Ca Very selective reading folks. It's one thing to not be selling cars because your product mix is wrong and only a couple cars out of many are near class-leading. It's another when your problem is that your car plants have more demand than production can meet. From the article, "They're maxed out in production of Corolla and Camry cars in North America." A coworker told me Tuesday that his son went to order a Prius and by time they get to his order, it may be a few months and it will likely be an '09 model. Apples and oranges. Yes, the Tundra was ill-timed in retrospect, but it's not like the rest of Toyota's lineup was full of mediocre cars, and even the mediocre cars they have carry cache from Toyota's built up reputation.