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Re: Toyota sputters as market shifts; Like Big 3, has too many Trucks, Lacks Small Ca
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Originally Posted by Ming
Honda, Hyundai and KIA at least are well positioned to steal sales from Toyota.
Suzuki could have been well positioned if they weren't trying so hard to emulate Detroit/Toyota and had a lineup here that more accurately reflected their strengths overseas (small, ultra fuel efficient cars).
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Exactly (to all) - and more are as well including almost unbelievably, - given all the exchange rates, some of the European makes.
Mazda in a sense, also - the Toyota Venza ? ain't going to wack the CX7 - more the other way around and there maybe more play from the new MX6 etc.
Come to think of it............ this matters as well ........ from the original linked article.
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At a meeting last month in Salt Lake City, dealers pressed
Toyota's top U.S. managers to explain why the carmaker renowned for its responsiveness and flexibility couldn't provide them with more small cars.
"They're maxed out in production of Corolla and Camry cars in North America, and there's nothing more the U.S. staff can do," said
Rosario Criscuolo, a Michigan dealer with showrooms in Lansing and Ann Arbor who attended the meeting.
- "I don't think the management we have now at Toyota has ever seen anything of this sort."  
- "Toyota is no longer considered immune from the market forces at work in the United States," said Aaron Bragman, an auto analyst at Global Insight.
- Toyota already had warned investors in May that its annual profits would fall for the first time in seven years because of weakening demand in
the United States, where analysts estimate it generates half its earnings.
- Toyota's difficulties reflect a combination of factors:
the ill-timed launch early last year of its Tundra full-size pickup,
and a decision to take more time to develop new vehicles to nip quality problems that were starting to hurt the automaker's reputation.
That led to delays in the rollout of a redesigned Prius hybrid and other models that dealers had expected to see this year.
"You're looking at a company at a difficult time and place in its history," said Maryann Keller, an auto analyst who heads her own consulting firm,
Maryann Keller & Associates in Stamford, Conn.
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Last edited by AMERICA 123 : 07-10-2008 at 06:03 PM.
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