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• Honda, Nissan and Toyota Are Hurting in U.S., Too

  BNET - 2008-12-16

  Celebrity bloviators like Michael Moore and Tom Friedman are raking the Detroit Big Three over the coals, but for the wrong things, based on outdated impressions. by Jim Henry

  Tags: U.S., Pickup, Brand, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Sales Strategy, Branding, Sales, Marketing, Jim Henry

• IntelliChoice.com's Best Deals List for October Reveals an Auto Industry Maxed Out on Rebates

  - 2008-10-15

  Volatile Monthly List of Best Car Deals Highlights Industry's Stress CAMPBELL, Calif. -- IntelliChoice.com (www.intellichoice.com), the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, and part of media and marketing services company Source Interlink Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SORC), today announced its "Best Deals of the Month" for October 2008...

  Tags: car, pickup, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Toyota's plunge into big pickups veers into a Texas-size ravine

  - 2008-08-29

  SAN ANTONIO -- Until about three weeks ago, workers built pickups by the thousands here at the sprawling Toyota truck factory south of town. No longer. Now, about 2,000 permanent employees draw a paycheck from a plant that doesn't produce anything. They perform maintenance, talk about...

  Tags: pickup, SALES, Toyota Motor Corp.

• IntelliChoice.com's Best New Car Deals for June Show Rebates Moving from SUVs and Trucks to Cars

  - 2008-06-13

  - Automakers now offering cash back on all vehicle segments from compacts to full-size pickups - CAMPBELL, Calif. -- IntelliChoice.com (www.intellichoice.com), the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, today announced its "Best Deals of the Month" for the month of June for all cars, trucks, and...

  Tags: car, pickup, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• A King Is Born

  - 2008-01-01

  Once again we bring you Canada's Truck King Challenge, with winners in all the main categories. Now in its second year, the Canadian Truck King Challenge is a non-partisan pickup truck testing event that is attanged and judged by Canadian automotive journalists from across the country. This year...

  Tags: Manufacturing, pickup, PRODUCTIVITY, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Toyota: Sell Tundra

  - 2007-12-01

  Toyota Motor Corp. is using bareknuckles tactics in its battle against full-size pickups from General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC. Detroit is frantic. Pickups are the domestic industry's last and most-potent weapon in an arsenal that's largely been overrun by luxury cars, minivans and family sedans. By...

  Tags: FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., Investment, pickup, SALES, Toyota Motor Corp.

• GM accelerates its move into the hybrid realm

  - 2007-11-26

  After watching archrival Toyota get all the glory during the past seven years for its push into gasoline-electric hybrids, General Motors Corp. now seems intent on catching up. The world's largest automaker now has more hybrids in its lineups or on the way than Toyota does, with the...

  Tags: gasoline, General Motors Corp., hybrid, pickup, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Mother, daughter killed in accident

  - 2007-10-15

  DALY CITY -- A woman and young girl who were killed in a crash Saturday on state Highway 1 in Daly City have been identified as mother and daughter, 43-year-old Magaly Perochena and 8-year-old Fabiola Peralta, both of Daly City, according to the San Mateo County coroner's office. ...

  Tags: accident, pickup, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Big sales of pickups may not last

  - 2007-10-09

  With gasoline prices hovering near $3 a gallon and the housing market in a slump, large pickup sales should be suffocating. Instead, a price war among the major players in the sector is boosting sales and market share for gas-thirsty vehicles such as the Toyota Tundra, Chevrolet Silverado...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Modesty, pickup, SALES, Toyota Motor Corp.

• 'Big 3' not what they used to be: American auto manufacturers sales

  - 2007-07-20

  Many years ago, the cover of Fortune magazine bore a haunting photograph of a brilliantly lit, deserted automobile showroom, taken late at night. On the showroom floor was a small, inventively styled foreign car that had quietly established a substantial presence in the American market. Beneath the photograph,...

  Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., Nelson, pickup, SALES, Toyota Motor Corp.