Toyota Chugs on!

[Greji]

Toyota Motor Shares Poised to Rise on Expected Record Earnings

Feb. 8 -- Shares of Toyota Motor Corp., the world's largest automaker by market value, may rise after the company yesterday said it expects to post another year of record earnings for the year ending in March.

Shares of Toyota, which have gained 61 percent in the last 12 months, rose 6.7 percent to 6.530 yen in Tokyo yesterday. More...

[IkemenTommy]

Funny how GM and Ford blame the oil prices for their piss poor sales while Toyota is out there having record earnings.

[Buraku]

The Nihonjinron from Nippon and J-Protectionism has helped shield the J-carbase, J-rice, J-beef, J-automobiles from the effects of foreigners and foreign companies by means of high tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas. Toyota has grown because it flogs Cars to one of the fastest growing economies, that of the Chinese,
the guys at Toyota have also opened up many subcontracted plants in China.

Much of these moves helped Toyota
but none of it helped Nippons other automobile companies, Mazda ( in the shit, low profit ), Isuzu ( shutting down its workforce ), Honda ( build ugly sports cars and blow billions on dumb robotic garbage ass-imo toys ) Mitsubishi ( massive losses and getting sued )

[IkemenTommy]

The Nihonjinron from Nippon and J-Protectionism has helped shield the J-carbase, J-rice, J-beef, J-automobiles from the effects of foreigners and foreign companies by means of high tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas. Toyota has grown because it flogs Cars to one of the fastest growing economies, that of the Chinese,
the guys at Toyota have also opened up many subcontracted plants in China.

Much of these moves helped Toyota
but none of it helped Nippons other automobile companies, Mazda ( in the shit, low profit ), Isuzu ( shutting down its workforce ), Honda ( build ugly sports cars and blow billions on dumb robotic garbage ass-imo toys ) Mitsubishi ( massive losses and getting sued )

You can also say that Toyota is a better managed and more straight forward company than the rest of J automobile companies.

I still think the launch of Lexus brand has helped them with their brand imaging. U.S. market is still the biggest for Toyota and the high dollar versus the yen helped them in their advantage as well.