Toyota takes 1Q world sales lead from General Motors

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Toyota takes 1Q world sales lead from General Motors
Wednesday April 23, 10:24 am ET
By Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writer
Toyota takes world sales lead from General Motors in first 3 months of the year

DETROIT (AP) -- Toyota has taken the global automotive sales lead from General Motors, selling 2.41 million vehicles to GM's 2.25 million over the first three months of the year.

GM said Wednesday its first-quarter sales dropped across the globe by less than 1 percent, but Toyota said its sales were up 2.7 percent during the January-March period.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080423/gm_global_sales.html?.v=8
 
Hopefully they will build some more manufacturing plants here.

Man this is really a hard time to have my son walk out into his adulthood.
 
A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (General Motors)
decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River.
Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance
before the race.

On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.

The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate
the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of
senior
management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.

Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person
steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person
rowing.

Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a
consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second
opinion.

They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat,
while not enough people were rowing.

Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent
another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure
was totally
reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents
and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.

They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1
person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called
the
'Rowing Team Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners and free
pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles,
canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and
bonuses.

The next year the Japanese won by two miles.

Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor
performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and
canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved
was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next
year's racing team was out-sourced to India .

Sadly, The End.

Here's something else to think about:

Ford has spent the last thirty years moving all its factories out of
the US , claiming they can't make money paying American wages.

TOYOTA has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen
plants inside the US.

The last quarter's results:
TOYOTA makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses.
Ford folks are still scratching their heads.
IF THIS WEREN'T SO TRUE IT MIGHT BE FUNNY
 
problem with GM is there phat retirement plans. Cant promise free health care to every line worker for rest of there life.
 
Chapdog said:
problem with GM is there phat retirement plans. Cant promise free health care to every line worker for rest of there life.
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but they did. a contract is a contract.

No lets just do it the republican way promise them a retirement for the rest of their life until they are in their upper 50's then lay them off and trash their retirement.
 
Desh said:
Hopefully they will build some more manufacturing plants here.

Man this is really a hard time to have my son walk out into his adulthood.
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They currently are. Their plant down in TX is due to open I believe either late this year or early next year. Once it opens, they will be the largest manufacturer of autos in the U.S.
 
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