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...to Toyota plan to sell more hybrid vehicles in the coming years....
...Additional reporting by Sylvia Pfeifer in London and Stephen Morris in San Francisco...
...Other international automakers including Mercedes, General Motors, Volkswagen, Toyota and Hyundai also had models included on the list, alongside domestic automakers like BYD....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 15 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc....
...Lexus sales were less than a third of that. Even in Japan, German brands sell well. There, new car sales continue to slow....
...(v) Restructuring continues. Of course it does. But what about that Tesla, eh?...
...It once built the Prius in Thailand, but stopped in response to poor sales. Toyota’s line-up also includes the hybrid version of its Camry midsize sedan, still made in Thailand....
...Toyota/Mazda Shortly before he took office, Mr Trump threatened Toyota with tariffs over its plans to build a new factory in Mexico....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...In the middle of last year, Mr Robson began pitching it to the world’s top auto component and carmakers, including General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota. About a dozen said they were interested....
...For the government, securing the Nissan investment was crucial, as other carmakers including Toyota and General Motors’ Vauxhall unit also have investment decisions to make during what are expected to be...
...But a shift towards digital, connected and autonomous technology in the auto business is forcing companies to think beyond motor shows, print space and TV ads....
...He also said that, unlike rivals including General Motors’ Opel unit and the Renault-Nissan alliance, Toyota had had no stoppages at its St Petersburg plant....
...Toyota Motor has cut its annual sales guidance as the world’s biggest car group faces slowing sales in its home market and emerging markets....
...It came shortly after Lexus, Toyota’s luxury brand, announced plans to return to European and US racing in an effort to refresh its staid image....
...Stephen Reitman, analyst at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, says: “It’s a question of the market dynamic....
...Before running the Europe operation, he was head of Volvo Cars, overseeing Ford’s sale of the Swedish car business to Geely of China....
...(Financial Times) “Ford Motor is to develop its hybrid drive technology for light trucks independently of Japan’s Toyota after the pair broke off co-operation in the field amid robust statements from Ford...
...After losing big backers such as Toyota, General Motors and Ford, Torotrak’s new sugar daddy – US automatic transmissions maker Allison – handed over £4.5m in licence and engineering service payments last...
...Its sales fell a fifth last year in a European market that fell overall about 1 per cent, even as rivals Nissan, Hyundai and Kia reported sharply higher sales....
...Nikon , the camera maker that makes a quarter of its sales in Europe, rose 2.4 per cent to Y1,795....
...Toyota , the carmaker that gets more than a quarter of its sales in North America, rose 1.7 per cent to Y2,764 after demand for cars was a strong component of the upbeat US data....
...Toyota Motor , the world’s largest carmaker by sales, shed 1.3 per cent to Y3,120 after reporting its first quarterly loss in two years in the wake of the March earthquake....
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