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Toyota boosts US sales with rental cars
TweetToyota boosts US sales with rental cars
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota began the year with a big increase in U.S. sales. But those numbers got a boost from rental-car companies and other fleets.
Toyota typically shies away from fleet sales, which are less profitable than sales to individuals. They can also hurt resale values and brand image.
Toyota sold 24,409 cars and trucks to fleets in January, a 47 percent increase from the same month a year earlier.
Toyota’s U.S. sales chief Bob Carter told The Associated Press that the company is making up for rental sales it halted last year because of earthquake-related shortages. Toyota sold very few cars to fleets in the second half of 2011.
Carter says fleet sales will also be high this month, but will drop to more normal levels in March.
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When you go to rent a car and they give you anything foreign, tell them "NO". If Anyone who shows up at your house to do work, from the cable guy to the snow plow and anything in between is driving foreign vehicles, send them on their way and tell them why. I had Jehova's witnesses show up at my house in a Toyota. I Told them I don't care about their religion, just get that piece of crap out of my driveway. If we don't buy foreign cars, they won't sell them!
I love my KIA. Which, BTW, is made in America and has more American made parts than a Cruze.
I do the opposite of the steelhead poster. I kick out anyone who drives cars from companies that had to be bailed out with my tax dollars and who have yet to pay it all back.
The profits from the sale of your vehicle go to corporations and countries that do not have your best interest at heart. Heck, they don't even have their own people's best interest at heart. If you weren't buying Kias, those people would still be building cars, but American cars. Hayden-Buy Ford, that's what I do.
Drone-Do you think the quality of life is better in Japan or Korea? That's nuts! They pollute more, they abuse their workers more, they artificially manipulate their economies to weaken the dollar, they ignore trade laws, the list goes on and on. I'm not saying that the American Corporations are gleaming examples, but in terms of quality, quality of life, and social and environmental responsibility, there is no competition. That's nice of toyota to add 400 jobs. The fact is, however, that if not another foriegn car sold in the US, we would still need "X" amount of vehicles...AMERICAN vehicles. BTW-manufacturers are learning that cheap labor leads to cheap parts. Ford, GM, and Chrysler have brought manufacturing jobs back to the states from other countries because they could not get the quality they get from AMERICA.
did thedrone post something intelligent? wow.... I will buy whatever is best for me and my family. Based on my needs, i will choose a car. I dont care where it was made.