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		<title><![CDATA[Toyota Reports Surprise Profit, Outlook Bumpy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chang-Ran Kim, Asia autos correspondentTOKYO (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Toyota Motor Corp's surprise quarterly profit and halving of its annual loss forecast failed to convince investors the world's No.1 carmaker is back on track, as government subsidies peter out and a strong yen takes its toll.Major Japanese automakers have raised their...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[News: Korean cars more reliable than Germans]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US and European car makers have again been humbled in an annual vehicle reliability study. Kia Koup ‹scroll | Move your mouse over the thumbnails below to scroll | scroll› Asian car makers have once again outshone US and European brands in an influential reliability survey released in the United...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:24:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Auto Brand Loyalty Isn't What it Used to Be]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new study from CNW Marketing Research, only about 20 percent of new car shoppers stay with the auto brand they grew up on, reversing decades of assumed loyalty. Gone, apparently, when men and it was usually men would jingle the change in their pockets and pronounce themselves...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:09:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Breaking News: Clunkers boosts Ford sales]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cash for Clunkers program boosted sales at Ford, Toyota and Honda in August as US consumers snapped up their fuel-efficient offerings. The Cash for Clunkers program boosted sales at Ford, Toyota and Honda in August as US consumers snapped up their fuel-efficient offerings, but rivals Chrysler Group LLC and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:22:24 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Former Toyota, General Motors Fremont plant to close in March 2010]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo — TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION TMC announced it will end its Corolla and Tacoma production contract with New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. NUMMI on March 31, 2010 and shift production of those vehicles to Toyota wholly-owned facilities. Following the end of the contract, Tacoma pickups will be produced at Toyota's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:34:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cash For Clunkers Pushes August Sales And Stirs Debate]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: David Kiley on August 28 Helped by Cash for Clunkers, which ended Monday, the annualized selling rate for the auto industry in August is expected to be about 15.5 million, according to Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs.That would be a 16% improvement year over year, and nearly a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:02:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UAW Jumps on Toyota, But Not GM, for Closing NUMMI]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UAW is criticizing Toyota for cutting UAW jobs and closing the NUMMI plant in Fremont, Calif., even though General Motors left NUMMI first, leaving Toyota holding the bag. by Jim Henry]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toyota closing NUMMI factory in California:]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. plans to close its oldest U.S. auto plant, New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., a venture that once symbolized Toyota's zeal to learn the art of automaking in America. Toyota's board decided to shut the Fremont, Calif., plant in March. The plant builds the Toyota Corolla and Tacoma....]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[California plant closure will be first for Toyota]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp., a once-unstoppable but now money-losing automaker with idle production capacity, will stop making vehicles next year at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont, Calif. The decision, announced by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and company officials and referred to as "most unfortunate," is momentous for...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toyota to halt production in California plant]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota said on Thursday that it would halt production next March at a California assembly plant that it has operated in partnership with General Motors for the past 25 years. The decision marks the first time that the Japanese carmaker has reduced capacity in North America. "We have determined that...]]></description>
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