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Originally Posted by ScottS
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.
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In rebuttal, the Corolla and Camry were down month to month May to June roughly 20%. A manufacturer with production constraints doesn't lose 20% volume from one month to the next.
Some have eluded to a fleet dump last month for Toyota on the Corolla and Camry as they set new all time sales records for a single month. A manufacturer doesn't set a record one month, then drop 20% next with production constraints. Nor does one fleet dump (alleged) vehicles if retail sales are in short supply.