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• With sky-high gas, buyers think small

  - 2008-05-02

  DETROIT -- Figuring out the point at which gas prices are too high for consumers to keep buying trucks and SUVs has, in the past, been a futile exercise for auto executives. It now appears the tipping point is between $3.38 and $3.60 a gallon. That's...

  Tags: car, Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., SALES, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Toyota's global hybrid sales hit 1M

  - 2007-06-08

  TOKYO -- A decade after the first Prius went on sale, Toyota's global sales of hybrid vehicles have hit a landmark 1 million, underlining the Japanese automaker's lead in "green" technology that has changed the face of the auto industry. Toyota Motor Corp.'s cumulative sales of gas-and-electric- powered...

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• Q1 Lives Up to Slumping Forecast for 2007 Auto Sales

  - 2007-05-14

  Bloomies Opens, Could See $90M in Yearly Sales; Simon Says: Block Now Part of Mall King MARKETPLACE Local sales of new autos fell 7% in the first quarter from a year earlier. Not a pleasant showing for Orange County dealers, considering the national market only was off 1%....

  Tags: BMW AG, brand, Branding, Honda Motor Co., MARKETING, SALES, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Profile of auto industry.(INDUSTRY PROFILE)(Industry overview)

  - 2007-04-01

  Backgrounds Asia becoming automotive production center World's major car makers such as Toyota, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, General Motor, and Ford have known no more territorial borders in expanding their operations including manufacturing operations. For efficiency and marketing,...

  Tags: brand, car, Indonesia, manufacturing, Mitsubishi Corp., SALES, sedan, SUV, Suzuki, Suzuki Motor Corp., Toyota Motor Corp.

• OKC Truck, SUV sales up in November

  - 2007-01-08

  Despite high gas prices through much of 2006, a dip in prices late in the year lured some Oklahoma City customers away from new cars and toward new trucks and sport utility vehicles. Numbers for November from the Metropolitan Auto Dealers Association showed a 2-percent drop in new...

  Tags: car, General Motors Corp., SALES, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Tundra next to test Detroit's strengths; Calling all bass fishermen, country fans and home-improvement haulers.

  - 2006-11-13

  Byline: jean halliday Deftly balancing a portfolio of cars and trucks is something at which Toyota Motor Sales USA excels, says Doug Scott, an analyst with GFK Automotive. The automaker added a slew of new sport-utility vehicles in the late 1990s,...

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• Truck, SUV sales spurt

  - 2006-10-04

  DETROIT -- Aided by big discounts and lower gasoline prices, sales of many trucks and sport utility vehicles edged up in September, but no one at the Big Three is ready to predict a return to the days when truck and SUV sales fueled huge profits. The domestic...

  Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., SALES, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Carmakers strut new models in Paris

  - 2006-09-29

  PARIS -- On the opening day of the Paris Motor Show Thursday, beleaguered European and U.S. carmakers unveiled ambitious new designs and strategies to combat rising costs, flat home markets and ever-tougher competition from Asian rivals. The 2006 show finds manufacturers on both sides of the Atlantic cutting...

  Tags: carmaker, Daimler AG, Renault, SALES, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp., U.S.

• Disintegration of iconic Big Three US automakers accelerates

  - 2006-09-24

  DETROIT, United States AFP — In a city struggling to deal with the slow disintegration of the iconic General Motors and Ford, Chrysler was the shining star whose bold designs could beat out the Asian competition. That star fell to earth last week with the announcement of major production cuts...

  Tags: Benefits, Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, SALES, SOFTWARE, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Boxy is in as younger, hip drivers get square

  - 2006-09-12

  Automakers are finding it's hip to be square -- at least when it comes to the shape of some of their most popular people haulers. Even as big, traditional SUVs have seen their popularity wane, the smaller boxes are making a sales dent with the younger crowd. They're economical, practical...

  Tags: car, Honda Motor Co., SALES, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.