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While the BOOMERS are on the mind guess who's daddy's Olds is now? Toyota knows it ergo Scion...but then they started selling those all over too.
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Time to wake up and smell the coffee: Ford has more cash on hand than toyota. It's monster balance sheet is lined with receivables and has gone big, new plants everywhere, new product categories, at EXACTLY the wrong time.
Never underestimate Japanese disease: consensus moves from strength come last.
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F1 racing is the wrong game. Those who can afford it....don't. And your "team" is a cast of 1000 producing celebrity driven prototype every year. The japanese are learning--they're the last man in. Honda gone. Toyota....
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aOCyOzVuoWmY
The tv locked rights gives this sport room to recover however. The restructuring of the great Sports Bubble continues.
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2010 Toyota Prius tested:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14667
| Quote: | Autoblog's road test of the 2010 Prius shows that the vehicle is capable of much more than just 52.2 MPG:
The Prius' chief engineer, Akihiko Otsuka, drove a 33-mile route in and around Napa and averaged 62.9 mpg. During the drive week, he levied a Beat-The-Chief challenge to anyone who wanted to take him on. AutoblogGreen was able to get the in-dash display to read in the mid- to low-70s for most of the route, but the last ten miles on a busy 55-mph road dropped that to 64.5 mpg. Not bad, but only good for a standing near the absolute bottom of the rankings among other journalists. Overall, the best score was 94.6 mpg, although that involved some less-than-real-world driving behaviors and conditions. The best "honest" score was 75.3 mpg. In all, about half of the journalists were able to get over 70 mpg, while the rest, save two, were able to get more than 66 mpg. |
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Toyota City: Downgrade Update.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-toyota-city22-2009mar22,0,6539982.story
| Quote: | | City hall has fared no better: Officials predict a 96.3% drop in the corporate taxes they'll collect this year, a loss that jeopardizes city services. The Aichi prefecture government, which relies on Toyota for one-fourth of its corporate tax revenue, is projecting a $1-billion shortfall in 2009. |
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The Autoshow has shown a broad and robust commitment to electric propulsion and an attempt to leapfrog the hybrid all together.
GM talks of a future of hydrogen "pods" all contributing to a a decentralized "smart" grid when not operating.
In this spirit Toyota head voices support for bailout. The company is also in the press today turning to Korean Posco for cheaper steel--a fundamental break with classical japanese interlocking manufacturing (holdings).
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Toyota adopts a more aggressive schedule in rolling out its all-electric cars. Now targeting 2012 as opposed to the "early part of next decade."
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Toyota to launch pure electric car in U.S. by 2012
Posted on Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:15PM EST
DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said it would launch an all-electric car for city commuting by 2012 in the United States as part of its plan to speed up the introduction of green cars as its global sales falter.
The FT-EV concept made its debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit Sunday, where the world's top automaker is also unveiling two new gasoline-electric hybrid cars.
The FT-EV concept shares a platform with the tiny iQ urban commuter car, which runs on a gasoline engine and emits just 99 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.
"Now, more than ever, while we are so focused on the pressing issues of the moment, we cannot lose sight of our future," Irv Miller, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. group vice president, said in a statement.
Toyota said the concept car is targeted at the urban dweller driving up to 50 miles between home and work, for instance.
"Last summer's $4-a-gallon gasoline was no anomaly," Miller said. "It was a brief glimpse of our future."
Toyota, which had previously said it would aim to get an electric car out by the "early part of the next decade," would join rivals General Motors Corp and Nissan Motor Co in the race to grab the lead in the zero-emission car segment.
But Toyota said it still considered gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles its long-term core powertrain technology.
With an aim of selling 1 million hybrids annually soon after 2010, Toyota will launch as many as 10 new hybrid models by then in various markets. The third-generation Prius and the Lexus HS250h, to debut in Detroit, are part of that effort, it said.
General Motors, which Toyota passed in recent years to become the top global automaker by sales, has said it will launch its Chevrolet Volt electric car in the United States in late 2010. GM says the Volt will have a 40-miles range for driving on one battery charge. |
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