DETROIT -- Toyota Motor Corp. plans to boost light-truck output in 2016 to tap the hot market for SUVs and crossovers, but it will do so cautiously with an eye to the flattening market, said Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota North America.
The shift is already underway.
For 2015, the truck-car sales ratio at Toyota, Lexus and Scion was 50-50. But in December, trucks accounted for 53 percent.
Today, Toyota light-truck output supplies 54 percent of the mix, Lentz told Automotive News during the Detroit auto show.