Toyota sales off more than GM or Ford

[Builder]

December '08 sales figures just released:

GM down 31%
Ford down 32%
Toyota down 37%

I thought Toyota was so superior to GM & Ford?

 

[Diamondpilot]

I saw this also on the evening news. Chrysler's sales were of 57%. They may not be around much longer if this keeps up.

I think you will see that Toyota's and all foreign manufactures sales will be down for a while. People feel like they need to help out and give the Big 3 another chance. There is a feeling like we are all in this together.

Chris

 

[Gator6x4]

December '08 sales figures just released:

GM down 31%
Ford down 32%
Toyota down 37%

I thought Toyota was so superior to GM & Ford?

In sales or quality?

 

[Builder]

In sales or quality?

My point is we're lead to believe that Toyota is not suffering lower sales in our daily, no hourly pounding from the press about how poor GM & Ford's sales are.

Rarely a mention of Toyota or Nissan.

Oh, BTW last I heard Nissan was down 42%.

 

[QRTRHRS]

A few automakers are doing somewhat better. Per an online article I was reading, Suburu was off 7.7% and VW 13.5%.

 

[Builder]

Toyota shuts down in Japan!

Finance - Toyota to suspend production for 11 days in Japan

 

[tlbuser]

no hourly pounding from the press about how poor GM & Ford's sales are.

IMO, it's just another lame attempt by the media to make something newsworthy. Just like when they interview celebs. for election opinions...or bring out some expert authority to tell us how wrong something is.......or how the gov't should pay for something else the taxpayers can't afford anymore!

Remember Chandra Levy? For weeks, that's all that was on the news, then poof it's gone.
The news doesn't even do a very good job reporting on the events of Iraq and Afghanistan anymore.

 

[Builder]

IMO, it's just another lame attempt by the media to make something newsworthy............The news doesn't even do a very good job reporting on the events of Iraq and Afghanistan anymore.

That's because so many less people are dying, less explosions, etc.

I really believe the news media has some kind of vested interest in making the Big 3 look as bad as they possibly can and making foreign auto makers look like flippin' geniuses.

I did not notice that the article about Toyota idling their factories ever made any kind of TV headline news. Yet when Detroit decided to idle factories before Christmas, it was all over the TV news.

 

[SnowRidge]

I did not notice that the article about Toyota idling their factories ever made any kind of TV headline news. Yet when Detroit decided to idle factories before Christmas, it was all over the TV news.

That's because there is still a mentality that the big three build American cars, while Toyota, et al, build foreign cars. In reality, they are all multi-nationals. We have three vehicles. One is a Japanese brand. One is domestic rebrand of a Japanese brand, and one is a straight American brand. Only the straight American brand was built outside the US. It was built in Mexico.

 

[Diamondpilot]

The Toyota Shut Down made the front page of our local paper today. I am sure that has to do with there being a large truck plant near by. You guys are right about the Big 3 and the media. The seem to go together like oil and water.

Chris