World News Insights
1-3 Minute Gist
Search, personalize, or simply browse. Follow the world around you from gist and context to insights.
Who we are | Our Credo | Ways of using Lyrarc | FAQ | Send Feedback | First Letter From the Editor
Sign up. It's free and easy to use
Create an account
to personalize your feed of articles and topics.
All Topics Article
For Toyota, a New Small Truck Carries Hopes for Topping GM
Keywords:
Tags:
IMV architecture for rugged vehicles and the Hilux brand of vehicles for emerging markets, are two favorable factors that Toyota hopes will generate half a million more sales than the old Hilux line. Toyota has spent $1.4 billion on building plants in India, Indonesia, Argentina and S. Africa and other countries to develop the new vehicles with new chassis, engines and other parts made in developing countries. These plants say chief engineer Hoskawa help reduce costs by 20-25% for the Hilux line of rugged vehicles with new chassis. But a port strike in India which makes the manual transmitssions, and a problem at the plant in Indonesia which makes gasoline engines- which are then shipped to plants for assembly in South Africa and Argentina- could cause problems. To cushion against such events Toyota keeps 2 weeks supply of engines and other parts in Thailand.
Toyota China
05/12/2005
Toyota in the Chinese auto market.
Grouped Articles
Auto Sales Keep Humming in China
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
Unrest May Signal New Phase in China Economy
New York Times 05/29/2010
Toyota Revs Up Ambitious Plans for China
Wall Street Journal 04/21/2014
Wall Street Journal 04/25/2014
Toyota, Nissan Post Slower China Sales Growth
Wall Street Journal 06/05/2014
Japan Car Makers Skid in China
Wall Street Journal 11/04/2014
Toyota strategy in the pre-Akio Toyoda period.
05/12/2005
How Toyota strategy was shaped in the pre-Akio Toyoda period, under Watanabe and his team.
Grouped Articles
Toyoda Rues Excessive Profit Focus
Wall Street Journal 03/02/2010
Eiji Toyoda, Promoter of the Toyota Way and Engineer of Its Growth, Dies at 100
New York Times 09/17/2013
Wall Street Journal 02/13/2006
Toyota Tacoma: A Rugged Winner
BusinessWeek 04/05/2006
How Slumping Market for SUVs Is Hurting Detroit's Bottom Line
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2005
For Toyota, a New Small Truck Carries Hopes for Topping GM
Wall Street Journal 05/12/2005
Toyota under Akio Toyoda, Shoichiro Toyoda's son, and grandson of the founder Kiichiro Toyoda.
05/12/2005
Akio Toyoda becomes CEO of Toyota in 2009, with the support of Shoichiro Toyoda, his father. He spent some years in the American operations, has overseas experience, and got his MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts. Because of tis he brings an outward looking approach to Toyota. By August 2009 about 40% of the senior management hat Toyota had retired or moved to new positions. Toyota suffered a loss of $819 million in the 2nd quarter 2009 with net sales revenue down sharply by 38% over prior year's same quarter. In the last years of the previous CEO Watanabe, Shoichiro had expressed concerns about the complacency at the company. See the links to this including Shoichiro's concern for higher costs, lower quality, and complacency in management.
Grouped Articles
Eiji Toyoda, Japan Auto Industry Visionary, Dies At 100
Wall Street Journal 09/17/2013
Eiji Toyoda, Promoter of the Toyota Way and Engineer of Its Growth, Dies at 100
New York Times 09/17/2013
In Rapid Turnaround, Toyota Is on Track to Post Record Earnings
New York Times 02/04/2014
Toyota Offers Tepid Outlook After Big Gains
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2014
For Toyota, a New Small Truck Carries Hopes for Topping GM
Wall Street Journal 05/12/2005
Toyota's Jim Press Discusses the Future
BusinessWeek 05/17/2006
Toyota India
05/12/2005
Toyota's Indian operations.
Grouped Articles
For Toyota, a New Small Truck Carries Hopes for Topping GM
Wall Street Journal 05/12/2005
Suzuki's Stylish Compacts Captivate India's Women
Wall Street Journal 05/11/2007
Wall Street Journal 06/21/2007
As Japan and India Forge Economic Ties, a Counterweight to China Is Seen
New York Times 08/21/2007
Wall Street Journal 12/13/2007
For Toyota, India Offers New Frontier
Wall Street Journal 01/11/2008
Toyota's IMV series of vehicles for emerging markets reaches a milestone in 2012- 1 million vehicles on one platform
05/12/2005
This is the best any automobile manufacturer has done on one platform. The design, single chassis, lower price points and customization for rough road conditions in emerging markets, give the IMV architecture and manufacturing operations a unique advantage.
Linked Articles
Toyota Pushes Emerging-Markets Production
Wall Street Journal 04/07/2012
For Toyota, a New Small Truck Carries Hopes for Topping GM
Wall Street Journal 05/12/2005
We took a different way to help millions around the world build educated informed mindsets that affects and shapes their lives. For a future that is open, global and digital, with everyone having access to high quality information. We believe in the renewal of America, renewal of Europe, the renewal of India, the rest of Asia, Latin America and Africa. The renewal of our supply chains, health, education, infrastructure, as we rebuild our countries after the pandemic. Literacy and knowledge we believe cannot thrive and grow in a world of web bots, web crawlers, or AI. This requires human curiosity, human learning, and human imagination. We take as inspiration the saying- “One has to be free, and as broad as sky. One has to have a mind that is crystal clear, only then can truth shine in it.” Every contribution whether big or small is precious- in this crisis and ahead.
Support Lyrarc from as small as $1
Terms and Conditions | Copyright Policy | Privacy Policy | Contact Us