Toyota October 2009 Sales Down 3.5%

[FenwickHockey65]

Toyota Reports October Sales
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November 3, 2009

TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A.,
Inc., today reported October sales of 152,165 vehicles, a decrease of 3.5
percent from last October, on a daily selling rate basis.

The Toyota Division posted October sales of 132,663 units, a decrease of 5.8
percent from the same period last year. The Lexus Division reported October
sales of 19,502 units, an increase of 15.5 percent over the year-ago month.

Toyota Division
Toyota Division passenger cars recorded sales of 85,169 units, a decrease of
3.3 percent from last October. Passenger car sales were led by Camry and
Camry Hybrid, which posted combined October sales of 30,136 units. The Prius
mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted October sales of 13,496 units, up 10.3
percent over the year-ago month. Corolla recorded sales of 25,717 units.
Venza reported sales of 5,035 units for the month.

Toyota Division light trucks posted sales of 47,494 units, down 10.0 percent
from the year-ago month. Light truck sales were led by the RAV4 compact SUV
with October sales of 13,971 units, up 10.2 percent over the same time last
year. Highlander and Highlander Hybrid posted combined sales of 5,979 units
for the month. The Tacoma mid-size pickup reported sales of 8,921 units in
October. The Tundra full-size pickup recorded sales of 7,537 units for the
month, up 13.1 percent over last October. Sienna recorded October sales of
8,249 units.

Scion posted October sales of 3,862 units. The xB urban utility vehicle led
the way with sales of 1,782 units. The tC sports coupe posted October sales
of 1,057 units. The xD reported sales of 1,023 units for the month.

Lexus Division
Lexus passenger cars reported October sales of 10,441 units, up 7.9 percent
from the year-ago month. Passenger car sales were led by the ES entry luxury
sedan, with sales of 4,413 units, up 2.8 percent over last October. The IS
entry luxury sport line posted combined October sales of 3,162 units, up 10
percent over the same period last year.

Lexus Division light trucks reported October sales of 9,061 units, up 25.7
percent over the same period last year. Lexus sales were led by the RX luxury
utility vehicle which posted combined October sales of 8,316 units, up 54.8
percent over the year-ago month. The RX 450h hybrid luxury utility vehicle
reported sales of 1,567 units for the month, up 145.7 percent over last
October.

TMS Hybrids
TMS posted October sales of 18,757 hybrid vehicles, up 10.9 percent over the
same period last year. Toyota Division posted sales of 15,603 hybrids for the
month. Lexus Division posted October sales of 3,154 hybrids.

There were 28 selling days this month, compared to 27 selling days last
October.

[Buick61]

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[osv_alero]

Originally Posted by Buick61

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc

Love it.

[Jkujo]

Take that Toyota, GM just took share from you! Hope your not too busy fixing the floormats, the tailgates that fall off, or getting the sludge out of your engines to know that we aren't going down with out a fight!

[01IntrigueGX]

Originally Posted by Buick61

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc

LOL^

[vanshmack]

Man... 30,000 Camrys...In a down market. As much as the domestic marques are improving and picking up lost market share, they've got a long way to catch that icon of blandness, the Camry.

On a much happier note, I'm glad to see that shiny turd, the Sequoia, languishing. That has got to be the ugliest SUV on the road.

[Sinner]

While Lexus out selling Buick by ten thousand units may look like an a royal beating it wasn't. At least not when you consider the number of models and their stature in the market. It won't be long until you'll see a trickle of pee running down the legs of Lexus' execs.

[smithrobs]

Just in time for ABC news special report on "Runaway Toyota's".
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/RunawayToyotas/

Bad week to be a Toyo fanboy!

[civilzues]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Runawa...ory&id=8980479

read some of these! they are great.

[rsbaker]

Originally Posted by Sinner

While Lexus out selling Buick by ten thousand units may look like an a royal beating it wasn't. At least not when you consider the number of models and their stature in the market. It won't be long until you'll see a trickle of pee running down the legs of Lexus' execs.

Fortunately Buick Regal is on the way! Regal should be able to add 10K units to Buick bottom line easily when it arrives early next year.

[plane]

You people disgust me.
JUST STOP NOW.
It's not fair picking on Toyota.
Do you pick on the kids that ride the short bus to school?
Ok then, leave Toyota alone.


Just keep drinking that GM Koolaid.
Toyota is coming back this week.
Not everyone knows that Toyota has jumped the shark.
And there are plenty of great-grandmothers willing to put up cash
for scions and Camrys.
GM is going down if it takes the second coming of the Toyota Echo to make it happen.

[84Cressida]

Originally Posted by Jkujo

Take that Toyota, GM just took share from you! Hope your not too busy fixing the floormats, the tailgates that fall off, or getting the sludge out of your engines to know that we aren't going down with out a fight!

Well, GM was busy not fixing intake manifolds, Grand Prix's catching on fire, and filing for Ch. 11.

But whatever makes you guys sleep at night.

[2Lambdas]

Originally Posted by vanshmack

Man... 30,000 Camrys...In a down market. As much as the domestic marques are improving and picking up lost market share, they've got a long way to catch that icon of blandness, the Camry.

On a much happier note, I'm glad to see that shiny turd, the Sequoia, languishing. That has got to be the ugliest SUV on the road.

I really think that if Chevy didn't have the almost redundant (and older) Impala in showrooms, you would have a much closer Malibu total sales number to compare to Camry, i.e.

Impala 12,721 + Malibu 12,086 = 24,807 mid-size fwd chevys

or

Malibu 12,086 + G6 8,358 + Aura 1,173 = 21,617 Epsilons

or add back in the Impala 12,721 = 34,338 GM "non-luxury" mid-size fwd cars

That really is a more "accurate" comparison of GM vs. Toyota sales in the mid-size FWD "non-luxury" market segment.

[Barry Badrinath]

Originally Posted by 84Cressida

Well, GM was busy fixing intake manifolds, Grand Prix's catching on fire, and filing for Ch. 11.

But whatever makes you guys sleep at night.

ouchy, that hurt!

[84Cressida]

Originally Posted by Sinner

While Lexus out selling Buick by ten thousand units may look like an a royal beating it wasn't. At least not when you consider the number of models and their stature in the market. It won't be long until you'll see a trickle of pee running down the legs of Lexus' execs.

Yes, yes, the typical "Just you wait and see" that's been tooted everytime GM comes out with a new car. I got tired of holding my breath.