Any americans that want to shop Toyota can do so now. Last month Toyota did worse than GM in terms of sales. WHat is going to change in the next few months? with all of the negative press surrounding GM Toyota SHOULD be doing better. They are not. I think many folks are overestimating the exodus from GM. It would be one thing if GM was bankrupt and had little new product, but they are launching four nice products this summer and the Camaro is already on sale. What exactly is going to cause a sudden defection to Toyota? GM has been in a bad light since last October and yet their sales are doing only sligtly worse than the industry average. Last year many “experts” were predicting that Toyota would pass GM in the US by 2009. And that was BEFORE anyone knew GM would be bankrupt. Everyone keeps waiting for this miraculous uptick in Toyota sales, its not going to happen.

Borat:

If you know Toyota is adding production in CAnada why would you be touting this as creating American jobs? They are not adding a single job in either country, they are merely increasing the production rates at a few plants. They have obviously cut production so far that they have no choice but to increase it now to replenish dealers. This is not any indicator of booming Toyota sales.

sj79- I wouldn’t say Toyota would be first in line. But aside from a Ford, I would bet that most former American buyers would go to shop at Toyota due to their somewhat American image, and their full product line that covers all the bases the Big Three did. Second, not first.

The blatant public relations manipulation going on here is laughable!!

“You can riddle me all you want but GM will be profitable this time next year. Someone can write this down and hang on to it if they want.”

You are correct.

F3:

Let me ask you something: Why is Toyota any more likely than GM, Ford, Hyundai or Honda to pick up sales from former GM or Chrysler owners? I would think Ford would be the FIRST stop for these people. Toyota isnt going to get a huge boost from GM’s troubles. You can rest assured that GM is going to roll out major incentives to hold on to existing customers as they phase out brands.

FYI-GM is aiming to be profitable in a 10.5 million market with this bankruptcy. The February restructuring plan was aimed to be profitable at 11.5 million units and the government made them lower that unit sales.

You can riddle me all you want but GM will be profitable this time next year. Someone can write this down and hang on to it if they want.