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THE TOYOTA RECALL CRISIS

U.S. joins Toyota, California in inspecting runaway Prius

11:58 am U.S. ET, March 9 | UPDATED: 3/9/10 2:28 p.m. ET

U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp. dispatched investigators to San Diego today to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said two investigators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration were sent to join a team from the California Highway Patrol to be part of the investigation. Read More »

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Rejected-dealer advocates fail to get GM reinstatement calls

12:01 am U.S. ET, March 9

None of the three leaders of the rejected-dealers group that successfully lobbied Congress for a new arbitration law got a reinstatement phone call from General Motors Co ...

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GM has contacted all 661 dealers slated for reinstatement

Chrysler signals it won't follow GM on dealer reinstatement | March 9, 1:17 pm U.S. ET
Clunkers program didn't hurt future sales, study says | March 9, 3:36 pm U.S. ET
Saab starts shipping to U.S. dealers as it rolls back prices | March 9, 4:14 pm U.S. ET
Mitsubishi to make 100,000 EVs for France's PSA | March 9, 5:11 am U.S. ET
GMAC finance chief leaves for private-equity firm | March 9, 2:00 pm U.S. ET
Daimler dumping stake in Tata Motors, sources say | March 8, 7:46 am U.S. ET | UPDATED: 3/8/10 3:35 p.m. ET
Whitacre wants more sales -- NOW! | March 8
Fondue and farewell: How Bob Lutz told me the news | March 8
Sales are climbing slowly, but transaction prices surge | March 8
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GM, dealers talk cash to wind down

General Motors Co. says it is meeting with rejected dealers who are seeking additional wind-down money under an... Read More »

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Audi predicts strong Q1 sales after 19.9% rise in February

Audi expects to finish off the first three months of the year with robust sales following a good performance in... Read More »

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Mazda's review of ad account deals blow to longtime agency Doner

Mazda North America's decision to put its estimated $150 million advertising account in review threatens the biggest... Read More »

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Mazda design chief gives new meaning to zoom-zoom

Ikuo Maeda, the new design chief at Mazda Motor Corp., earned the nickname "Speedy" for his lead-footed driving on the... Read More »

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U.S. will get compact Lexus hybrid after all

After long insisting that a compact car was not in Lexus' U.S. product plans, Toyota officials last week confirmed that... Read More »

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Numbers are abstract; hiring is personal

JESSE SNYDER: The U.S. jobless rate remaining at 9.7 percent is an abstract number. It’s a big-picture number that tells auto... Read More »

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What's Japanese for Schadenfreude?

PAUL MCVEIGH: The Germans have a word for taking pleasure in others' misfortune – Schadenfreude. But at the Geneva auto... Read More »

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How do we get the economic engine running again?

GUEST COMMENTARY: As a young auto dealer, decades ago, I had an encounter with one of my neighbors, Fred Trump, who was a prominent real estate developer based in New York, and, yes, Donald's... Read More »

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Arbitration strategy: Let the dealers speak

From redtruck: NFW is correct...the cover of bankruptcy allows companies to do many things that are very unfair, but legal. What exactly are chrysler dealers getting back? at their sales rate and lack of product, how long can existing dealers survive, let alone add ... Read More »

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Canada light-vehicle sales by make, Feb. & YTD

Sample data:

							Total
	Car	Car	Truck	Truck	Total	Total	Percent
Make	2010	2009	2010	2009	2010	2009	change
Acura	394	377	464	613	858	990	-13%
Audi	662	461	204	166	866	627	38%
Bentley	2	2	-	-	2	2	0%
BMW division	946	859	474	331	1,420	1,190	19%
Buick	248	160	253	166	501	326	54%

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Canada light-vehicle sales by nameplate, Feb. & YTD

Sample data:

	Feb.	Feb.	2 mos.	2 mos.
	2010	2009	2010	2009
1 series (I)	104	122	104	122
3 series (I)	691	582	691	582
5 series (I)	99	117	99	117
6 series (I)	2	14	2	14
7 series (I)	23	10	23	10
Z4 (I)	27	14	27	14
BMW division car (D)	-	-	-	-
BMW division car (I)	946	859	946	859

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North America car and truck production – 03/08/2010

Sample data:

	3/1-	Feb.	1/1-	1/1-
	3/6/10	total	3/6/10	3/7/09
Ford Mustang	1,850	3,657	10,960	688
Mazda Mazda6 sedan	1,236	3,410	9,373	3,658
AUTOALLIANCE	3,086	7,067	20,333	4,346
X5 (trk.)	2,044	6,960	16,788	13,141
X6 (trk.)	939	4,093	8,676	8,413
BMW MFG. CORP. (trk.)‡	2,983	11,053	25,464	21,554

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Mexico car and truck sales, January

This Mexico car and truck sales, January data is available within our Data Center as a PDF download.

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Customer and Dealer Incentives

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U.S. car sales, Feb. & YTD

Sample data:

	2010	2009	2010	2009
ASTON MARTIN (I)*	92	95	184	190
1 series (I)	781	853	1,324	1,569
3 series (I)	6,817	6,414	12,235	11,427
5 series (I)	2,270	3,191	4,739	5,787
6 series (I)	-	-	237	591
7 series (I)	899	10	2,207	33
Z4 (I)	389	21	587	66
BMW division (D)	-	-	-	-
BMW division (I)	11,156	10,489	21,329	19,473
Total BMW division	11,156	10,489	21,329	19,473
Cooper/Cooper S (I)	2,871	2,826	5,118	4,908

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U.S. total vehicle sales by make, Feb. & YTD

Sample data:

			2010	2009	Car			2010	2009
	Car	Car	Car	Car	percent	Truck	Truck	Truck	Truck
Make	2010	2009	Share	Share	change	2010	2009	Share	Share
Acura	4,664	4,969	1.1%	1.4%	-6%	4,275	2,690	1.2%	0.8%
Aston Martin**	92	95	0.0%	0.0%	-3%	-	-	-	-
Audi	4,790	3,588	1.1%	1.0%	34%	1,426	1,065	0.4%	0.3%
Bentley	95	69	0.0%	0.0%	38%	-	-	-	-
BMW division	11,296	10,776	2.7%	3.0%	5%	3,804	2,203	1.0%	0.7%

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Print Issue | March 8, 2010

Toyota, rivals in 'dogfight' for wary shoppers

12:01 am U.S. ET | March 8

A battle is raging for the tens of thousands of customers Toyota has lost since its recall crisis erupted six weeks ago -- "a dogfight," says one analyst who sees Toyota losing market share over the long term. Toyota has piled on record incentives... ... Read More �

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