Bad week for Toyota

[horsewidower]

http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1161/volkswagen-steals-toyotas-crown-as-worlds-largest-automaker/

1. Volkswagon/Porsche
2. Toyota
3. GM

I didn't realize that VW was that big.

[studemax]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

Well, they are for now.
Who knows about the future?

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

not here
in USA - yoda is number 2 to the us govt .. umm I mean GM !!!
VW sells the equivilant of kia

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

Jimmy's slingin' wrenches again....he's got his Mojo workin'

[Vegaman]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

yeah, new VW was big but still suprised. ever seen there head office in Europe? Google it, pretty friggin cool

[realsteelfreak]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

All this is true in some ways, and while GM had sold more vehicles , really who turned the bigger profit $ ? ,and also GM sales is down over 31% over last year same time ,while Ford is down just a tad over 20%.

[urwurznitmahre]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

didn't realize that there was that many rainbow bumberstickers in the world

[cobra]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

volkswagan is the largest in europe, with i think renault right behind them, and ford third. opel (GM europe) is smaller.
i'm not sure, but maybe tieota is in there somewhere.

[dieselgeek]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

I kinda doubt anyone at Toyota cares about their "size" as opposed to profitability. Once they had a loss, they quickly re-geared which is a heluva lot more responsibility to shareholders than any domestic manufacturer has ever shown.

[horsewidower]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

Yep, I agree. But I thought it was interesting, more for the fact that VW was #1 in volume. Now a good bit of what put them over the top was the soap opera absorption of Porsche.

We are living in some odd times.

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

I kinda doubt anyone at Toyota cares about their "size" as opposed to profitability. Once they had a loss, they quickly re-geared which is a heluva lot more responsibility to shareholders than any domestic manufacturer has ever shown.

junk ... for klunk .... exploiting the American worker with low pay ... toyota
their biggest shareholder is the Japanese government

[BluLightning]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

I kinda doubt anyone at Toyota cares about their "size" as opposed to profitability. Once they had a loss, they quickly re-geared which is a heluva lot more responsibility to shareholders than any domestic manufacturer has ever shown.

junk ... for klunk .... exploiting the American worker with low pay ... toyota
their biggest shareholder is the Japanese government

Sounds like GM and the US government. ;)

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Bad week for Toyota

seems to be accepted business practice
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited Kansas City, Missouri, to announce a $10 million grant for Smith Electric to build and deploy up to 100 electric vehicles, including vans, pickups, and their "Newton" brand medium duty trucks. In addition, Secretary Locke announced three other grants supporting manufacturing and educational programs in Missouri: a $30 million grant to Ford Motor Company supporting the manufacturing of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in Kansas City and in Michigan