Bob Carter

Toyota's Carter says dealerships must change to look like new customers

1:30 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 22, 2015

Successful auto dealers must make their dealerships look like their future customers with more women, minorities and the young, Toyota's head of automotive operations in the US says....
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Toyota welcomes Buffett to car business with Hollywood burgers

7:24 am U.S. ET | Jan. 13, 2015

When billionaire investor Warren Buffett became the newest entrant in the auto-dealership business last year, Toyota rolled out the red carpet. The world’s largest carmaker welcomed Buffett within weeks after his Berkshire Hathaway agreed to acquire Van Tuyl Group, the largest privately held US auto dealer group....
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TOYOTA UNBOUND

Toyota's products, factory retooling set stage for market share gains

12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 8, 2014

For most of the last five years, Toyota has been hampered by one problem after another: recession, safety crisis, earthquake, strong yen. But it has used that time to quietly fine-tune key aspects of its business, and heading into 2015, it's in position to seize market share as it did during its mid-2000s growth spurt....
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Toyota sees small pickups as growth market

12:06 pm U.S. ET | Dec. 4, 2014

Toyota is betting that small pickup trucks are going to become big sellers. The automaker plans to unveil its redesigned Tacoma truck at the Detroit auto show in January, and is expecting rising sales in 2015 and beyond, even though overall growth in the small-truck segment has been slow....
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Toyota claims 'healthy' supply of replacement airbags

12:26 pm U.S. ET | Oct. 23, 2014

Toyota has a “healthy” supply of replacement parts that should allow dealers to move forward with repairs required by the widening recall of airbags made by supplier Takata, said Bob Carter, senior vice president of the automaker’s U.S. sales unit....
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CHICAGO AUTO SHOW

Toyota: Fuel cell math is right

12:01 am U.S. ET | Feb. 10, 2014

Toyota believes just a few hydrogen stations will go a long way toward meeting its needs for launching hydrogen fuel cell vehicles next year in the United States. A few dozen stations strategically concentrated in California will get fuel cell transportation up and running, says Bob Carter, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. senior vice president of automotive operations....
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Fresh faces at NADA get retail baptism

12:01 am U.S. ET | Feb. 3, 2014

Merry moments played out several times during the National Automobile Dealers Association convention as new U.S. chiefs at several automakers arrived in New Orleans....
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Toyota sees strong but slowing growth in 2014

3:07 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 27, 2014

Toyota Motor Sales USA has projected a slowing rate of growth in auto sales in 2014, and is taking a slightly less optimistic posture than most analysts regarding this year's sales tally....
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