Comments on: Toyota sales outpacing overall industry

By: Commodore

Commodore — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:01:28 +0000

I love the ultra positive title LLN gave this article, even though it talks about sales falling for everyone. Toyota’s sales falling are good news for the American economy though.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:33:58 +0000

term: my pooint is, that the last Tundra was FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR below the Silverado and F150. This one is near the neighborhood.

By: A4

A4 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:26:57 +0000

because toyota sucks, thats why

By: terminator

terminator — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:15:04 +0000

You have to look under the skin of the Tundra. It’s frame is very weak compared to the big threes trucks and the bolts used for the frame and body are about a 1/3 of the size that Ford uses in the F150. Plus the camshafts have a tendancy to crack making it so you have to replace the whole engine. Toyota has been playing off their reputation for years now. They don’t offer naything more spetacular than the next car company. There’s no such thing as a quality gap anymore and Toyotas quality is actually slipping.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:07:10 +0000

I’ve long considered toyota’s inferior crap

I drove the new Tundra not long ago, and was surprised by how well-built it seemed plenty of room, plenty of power. Of course, they gave me a ship-shape unit, and I didn’t do any “truck” stuff in it, but if the real trucks approach this level of quality …

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:06:34 +0000

Common people buy common cars. Its not too hard to do the math.

By: buenos

buenos — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:46:55 +0000

Deanster, that’s true, most mainstream vehicles have become pretty homogenous, especially in the North American market. De-badge a new Malibu, an Accord, a Camry, a Fusion, and, say a Mitsu Galant, and put them beside each other, and my guess would be that most people would be hard pressed to tell the difference.

By: autonut

autonut — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:21:45 +0000

Probably Toyota (and Honda) not aware that they should introduce new speedometers instead of new engines and don’t rush to align themselves with Apple of Dell to build new cars. They do know their business.
My explanation to cwwilson on how and why Toyota is selling so well after killing MR2 & Celica. Perhaps Toyota suits realized that sales figures do not support manufacturing of different models based on Corolla . Toyota is luring young buyers with models from Cororolla and Matrix outfitted with the same engines Toyota is supplying to Lotus (well at least in 2006 they did offer those engines). Toyota is replying to market demands. Perhaps customers chasing MR2 are not that well off and high risk business to begin with.

By: Deanster

Deanster — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:19:10 +0000

Buenos, it’s not like GM is cranking out exciting products either. Besides the vette and the sky/solstice, everything else is ****ing boring.

By: cwwilson

cwwilson — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:02:29 +0000

I just don’t get how Toyota itself is still selling so well. They basically told young buyers to **** off when they killed the MR2 and Celica. I guess that’s where Scion comes in but I was talking about actual Toyota. No Celica, no MR2, no Supra….It’s like they’ve forgotten about the sports car altogether.

By: buenos

buenos — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:35:50 +0000

Much to the chagrin of many people on this site, Toyota is apparently making vehicles that the masses want, and that is no different from what the former Big Three USED to do. Are they bland? Yup. Do people seem to care? Nope. Have they had some quality issues of late? Yup, and those issues have been acknowledged by Toyota. They had made the engineering process so lean that quality gaps were appearing. They have now slowed down the development process (first implemented on the new Highlander) to ensure that quality levels stay high. Doing so still doesn’t make for exciting cars and trucks, but it does help to restore and retain Toyota’s reputation for building high quality vehicles.

By: affliction

affliction — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:22:59 +0000

toyota’s selling cars strictly off of its reliability history….THAT is the difference between Toyota and the big three (well, the shrinking three)…The only US automaker I see some life in is GM. They’re making much better products these days. Still I see toyotas and hondas at auctions and you’d be amazed at how people flock at them b/c they’re bulletproof…especially camrys, siennas, corollas, accords, and civics. As far as the general public is considered every 2 people can own a toyota, so long as the roads aren’t filled with hazard lights and tow trucks.

By: jdasch1

jdasch1 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:11:11 +0000

As the big three pull back from the fleet sales game, Toyota is jumping in with record #’s. Toyota will soon be just like GM. Too many bland vehicles that look alike, and you can rent them before you buy them.

By: Hari

Hari — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:10:06 +0000

@350zfairlady

Any good reason for wanting their sales to decline?

By: 350zfairlady

350zfairlady — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:18:05 +0000

*toyota’s sales continue to decline

By: 350zfairlady

350zfairlady — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:17:26 +0000

I hope toyota’s continue to decline.