Toyota today reported best-ever August sales of 240,178 vehicles, an increase of 12.6 percent over August 2005. Toyota Division light truck sales were up 12 percent, with a best-ever August total of 83,336 units. Light truck sales were led by the RAV4 SUV, with all-time best-ever monthly sales of 14,363, up 87.4 percent over the same period last year. The Prius gas-electric hybrid mid-size sedan posted best-ever August sales of 11,177, an increase of 9.3 percent. Scion reported all-time best-ever monthly sales with 19,252 units sold. The tC sports coupe led the way with unsurpassed monthly sales of 9,185 units, up 18.5 percent. Scion xB sales were up 35.1 percent, posting monthly sales of 6,956 units. The xA posted sales of 3,111 units, up 6.8 percent. Lexus passenger cars posted all-time best-ever sales of 18,376 units, an increase of 21.0 percent over August 2005. Lexus SUV sales were down 9.4 percent. [data sheet]
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09/01, 2:31 PM
posted by:
Random Jerk
The evil Japanese will doom America with reliable, affordable, and economical transportation! What ever will we do!
09/01, 2:50 PM
posted by:
Dry Humper
All those poor brainwashed Americans lol
09/01, 3:19 PM
posted by:
Funk
Bring on the Toyota haters!!! …….like it obviously really matters.
09/01, 4:36 PM
posted by:
Hurry Up
come on LLN post the vw audi results
09/01, 4:45 PM
posted by:
Andre Neves
240,178 vehicles?!?!?
How the heck do they do that? That’s amazing.
09/01, 4:50 PM
posted by:
Andre Neves
Oh wait. My father just baught a Camry, and my mom a Solara.
I don’t understand that. It’s like Toyota puts a spell on their customers. They have owned 3 other toyotas prior to their new ones and they refuse to look at any other brand. I don’t get it, it’s not like the cars have anything exciting about them. Maybe the airvents give off an odor that attracts them.
09/01, 6:38 PM
posted by:
Patrick
Toyota makes the best cars. Period. Now let’s just wait for all the “blahblah toyota only makes appliances comments”
09/01, 7:38 PM
posted by:
British_Rover
Well they do. Toyota has not made a really exciting car since hmhhhh I don’t know the late 90s or so I guess. I mean the new MR2 that is now dead was kind of something.
09/01, 7:57 PM
posted by:
Bona Riah
Most people (look at the sales figures for all car makes) don’t want an exciting car. Toyota makes the cars for most people. Give them credit for doing that really well.
09/01, 10:13 PM
posted by:
anonymous
Toyota is on fire but Lexus actually is not doing that well when you consider almost all of their vehicles are in decline (the larger SUVs are expected in today’s market).
They are lucky the new IS is selling so well or their total sales would be in the negative from last year.
09/01, 11:06 PM
posted by:
Veda
The only thing unusual about this is that Honda isn’t doing as well compared to Toyota and Honda generally is the more exciting brand of the two. But then it’s hard to convince Toyota fanatics otherwise.
09/02, 12:16 AM
posted by:
elviososa
When Toyota see the problems on their cars…they admit it…and they dare to recall. Unlike the BIG 3, they will start recall after some people died or got sued.
09/02, 1:49 AM
posted by:
hal
Anyone who knows care to comment on if/how much the Toyota dealer/service experience contributes to customer loyalty? Is there something that Toyota do differently than domestics in that area?
09/02, 12:28 PM
posted by:
dan
well, people dont want new and exciting cars that might have hidden problems (since they’re all new things) but a proven car that can get them from point A to point B without a care in the world about the car.
i mean come on what can be so exciting about being stranded in a car all your life. its like giving plasma tv’s to prisoners or whatever but the point is youre still in jail.
car industry is quite old and there has not been any fundamental change in driving experience, its become a way of life.
i hope i am clear
09/07, 10:15 AM
posted by:
1c3d0g
Agreed.