Meanwhile, no one will step aside to make way for Volkswagen, least of all Toyota or GM.
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According to the 2012 Experian Automotive Loyalty and Market Trend analysis, 47.3 percent of all Toyota, Lexus and Scion owners return to purchase another Toyota Motor Corp. vehicle, which is up from 41.6 percent a year ago, and is the first time Toyota garnered the top spot in corporate loyalty since 2009.
The market value of its Toyota Motors shares is roughly equivalent to the market value of all of Toyota Industries, as reported in Forbes Global on Feb. 17, so Whitman feels he is getting the other operations for free.
In all, Toyota expects to sell 1 million hybrid vehicles a year, most of them in North America.
In fact, GM, Ford and Chrysler all outpaced Toyota and Honda in J.
James Press, who now runs all of Toyota's U.S. sales operations, visited Lexus dealers to apologize and to ask what Lexus could do to redeem itself.
For example, GM, Ford and Toyota all announced payment relief options for customers affected by Sandy.
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It seems odd: After all the research Toyota Motor and its partner, Panasonic, have done in the area of advanced lithium-ion batteries, the Japanese carmaker decided that maybe Tesla Motors' crude approach--stringing together a bunch of laptop batteries--is the preferred way to power electric vehicles, at least for now.
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My husband is the official family car nut, but the marketer in me is all revved up watching Toyota navigate the first real threats to its green vehicle leadership.
The dilemma faced by Toyota and all automakers is: How can you be as efficient as Ford yet give customers exactly the vehicle they want--how can you, that is, build to order and still build cheaply?
Toyota has idled all plants through Wednesday, according to the Detroit Free Press.
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According to Truecar.com, GM, Toyota and Honda all strongly increased incentives compared to a year ago, while Ford, Hyundai and Nissan were offering smaller incentives than a year ago.
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While playing down the near-term outlook for all-electric vehicles, Toyota is investing more attention on gasoline-electric hybrids with plans to roll out 21 new or redesigned models by the end of 2015.
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The class must argue that Toyota vehicles were all defective because they lacked the brake override, and that argument hinges on the idea there is something wrong with the throttle mechanism that the cutoff would cure.
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The Ford Fusion, Honda Accord and Toyota Prius are all available as a plug-in hybrid, while General Motors uses a smaller motor and battery pack to give a little electric assist to cars like the Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet Malibu.
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They pushed Toyota and Honda and all the American brands back on their heels.
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As a Japanese company, Toyota has historically been all the more motivated to overcome the problems of language and physical distance.
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Suzuki, Toyota and Honda have all been enjoying sales growth in China, but the next few months could harm their prospects of meeting their 2012 sales goals, IHS Automotive analysts told China Daily in Beijing on Wednesday.
The German has struggled this season with his Toyota but has looked quick all weekend at Silverstone.
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It looks like Toyota better come out with all guns blazing, in order to protect its territory.
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Toyota, with cash to burn (and nothing like GM's retired-worker liabilities), has a strong fuel-cell program but believes that 30 years from now all cars will run on hybrids-Toyota's technological strength.
For all that, though, Whitman is buying Toyota Industries because it owns 5% of Toyota Motors.
Underlying all these problems is an uncomfortable truth: Toyota's rivals have now caught up.
Dentsu's 3, 000-odd clients include both Toyota and Honda as well as all the brewers.
Problem: Toyota didn't plan enough all-wheel-drive minivans for sunny southern California and couldn't bump up production fast enough.
In the UK, Toyota, Nissan and Honda are all recalling certain models.
Notably, Toyota, Daimler and Hyundai all have projects in the mix.
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