September Yaris sales

[Sirius-XM]

Only 13000 units seperate the top four cars so the Yaris is still selling well comparatively.

I am surprised the Kia Soul did so poorly considering the money spent advertising it. The even uglier Nissan Cube did even worse. What is most troubling (as a Toyota Shareholder) is how poorly the Scion line is doing. I would have hoped a Scion would have been in the range with Kia Soul and Nissan Cube. Toyota screwed up the XB when they changed it and the XD is pretty mainstream. I am glad the Government Motors cars did so poorly

Gasoline prices can not stay at current levels. The dollar is very weak and likely to stay that way. When the world economy starts to improve, demand for oil will rise. With a weak dollar and OPEC talking about selling oil in nondollar currencies, the price will increase. Demand for small cars and hybrids will increase.

[ECHOKnight2000]

Originally Posted by Sirius-XM

Only 13000 units seperate the top four cars so the Yaris is still selling well comparatively.

I am surprised the Kia Soul did so poorly considering the money spent advertising it. The even uglier Nissan Cube did even worse. What is most troubling (as a Toyota Shareholder) is how poorly the Scion line is doing. I would have hoped a Scion would have been in the range with Kia Soul and Nissan Cube. Toyota screwed up the XB when they changed it and the XD is pretty mainstream. I am glad the Government Motors cars did so poorly
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Toyota is hurting in general. Yes the whole industry is down but Toyota and its divisions are really hurting. 30% overall down in sales. I don't know if that's global or U.S. but still that's a lot.

Also Scion with its second gen cars bombed. Scion got off its core philosophy of cheap, fun, youth oriented, NOT-Toyota. Sales for Scion are down over 50%!!!!! That's very alarming!! Toyota started to follow the original Scion owners. Yes don't totally keep them out but don't cater to everyone which Toyota has a problem with. Scion got too mainstream. I know the cars are based of existing Toyota cars JDM or EDM or whatever. Fine. But don't dumb them down to Toyota like cheapness of USDM cars. Also don't make them detached, isolated floaty, bloated Toyota cars with a Scion badge. Don't be GM Toyota.

I want Scion to succeed, they started good but...Toyota has that mainstream, lots of sales filter on, appliance, doesn't work for everything as they are seeing.


Rant over.