Toyota's Great Victory

Chattanoogan.com Roy Exum:

Editor Roy Exum, who has been following the Toyota recall controversy and is very much pro-Toyota, writes about the favorable sales numbers Toyota posted in March and how Toyota played a role in jump-starting sales for the automotive industry overall.

Quotes from the story:

Toyota Motor Company had an 87 percent sales increase in March over the month before and a 41 percent increase over March a year ago. Thats right, the same company so brutally and unfairly bashed in Congress this winter just sold more vehicles (186,000) last month than any other brand in the United States.

The incentives package offered by what I am now assured is the worlds safest and most reliable automobile have actually kick-started the economically-stalled automotive industry. Plainly put, all that a union-driven witch hunt could do to humiliate and defraud a great and noble global company just blew up in its face.

[I am] one of 200,000 Americans who today proudly wears a Toyota patch. I offer that not just as a disclaimer, but instead to say I have now seen an inside to a company that I candidly believe is one of the finest and most exciting in the world.

In short, Toyota did not only do the right thing, they went over and beyond it.

I have viable proof of the millions of dollars Toyota has given to this country in the form of youth ball fields, United Way, the Red Cross, you name it. At a time when we are praying daily for the unemployed and the uninsured, I can show you 200,000 fiercely-loyal Americans who are being treated in such a way they will literally do anything as long as its legal to prove Toyota is, quite simply, the best.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_172625.asp

Lexus Surges past Mercedes in Sales

BusinessWeek.com Lexus Tops Mercedes in U.S. Luxury-Auto Sales in March and the First Quarter

David Welch and Katie Merx report on the sales numbers for the automotive industry in March.Quotes from the story:

Toyota Motor Corp.s Lexus increased its U.S. sales 42 percent in March to finish the first quarter with the luxury-vehicle lead over Daimler AGs Mercedes-Benz.
Lexus sold 20,219 cars and sport-utility vehicles last month and 49,523 for the quarter, according to a statement today.

Toyotas division has been the top seller of luxury vehicles in the U.S. on an annual basis for 10 years in a row.

Lexus benefited from a tripling of sales of its redesigned GX mid-size SUV, as well as increases of 30 percent for the RX sport-utility vehicle and 29 percent for the IS car, according to the statement from Toyota City, Japan-based Toyota.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-01/lexus-tops-mercedes-in-u-s-luxury-auto-sales-in-march-quarter.html