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Auto dealers escape worst of tornado's wrath
… Nissan and Subaru stores in Oklahoma City had 400 vehicles that were damaged, and his Chevrolet, Buick-GMC and Toyota- Scion dealerships in Midwest City had 1,200 vehicles that sustained less damage. He said one of his 400 employees lost his home …
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Audi gripes, but Tesla could be en route to niche-brand success
… nearly 20,000 vehicles through April. Despite its premium price tag, Mini is nearly as large as Toyota's mass-market Scion brand. Despite its newness, Mini sells almost as many cars as Jaguar and Land Rover combined. Mini has reached the point …
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Toyota streamlines decision-making for North America
… of the year, if you are No. 1, that's great. At the New York auto show in March, you said Toyota was studying whether Scion should evolve into a near-luxury player. What is the status of that study? We have to decide how big the premium small car …
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Goofy ads, variants help Mini rule its own little world
… The second generation of the revived Volkswagen Beetle failed to sustain momentum. The anticipated threat from Toyota's Scion , a brand that promised to lure young buyers with hip cars, never materialized. Even the microcar Smart brand owned by Daimler …
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Online video has changed how auto marketers connect with customers
… ness of that grew upon itself because it hit a nerve with people who thought it was cool," said Hollis, who was running Scion at the time but has since studied the spot. "It wasn't created to say, 'We're going to have 17 million views.' It …
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China is a learning lab for Lincoln
… the auto show. Farley compares the Lincoln experience in China to what he went through when Toyota developed the Lexus and Scion brands from scratch. "It felt like 1988 to me with Lexus," said Farley, who was a young product planner with Toyota Motor …
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Dealers
… chairman; Dave Edwards of Edwards Chevrolet-Cadillac in Council Bluffs, vice chairman; Jeff Weber of Anderson-Weber Toyota- Scion -Lincoln in Dubuque, secretary; and George Grask of Cedar Rapids Truck Center in Cedar Rapids, treasurer. Duane Barber …
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Ghosn's demand: Double Nissan's U.S. sales
… Munoz said. In 2012, Nissan's U.S. dealers sold an average 959 units per franchise, compared with 1,491 at Toyota- Scion stores and 1,220 at Honda-brand franchises, according to the Automotive News Data Center. "We want to reverse that …
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U.S. car and light-truck inventories, on May 1
… D/I) * 29,400 * 41 * 38 Toyota/ Scion car (D/I) * 175,300 * 47 * 39 Toyota ..... 106,300 * 41 * 38 Total Toyota/ Scion (D/I) * 281,600 * 45 * 39 TOYOTA MOTOR SALES ..... March Make Car Truck total total Toyota/ Scion * 76 * 53 * 129 * 148 Honda * 64 * 49 …
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Canada light-vehicle sales by nameplate, April and YTD
… 146 -3% * 353 * 511 -31% xB (I) * 81 * 100 -19% * 229 * 379 -40% xD (I) * 36 * 64 -44% * 114 * 259 -56% Total Scion car (I) * 561 * 400 40% * 1,515 * 1,502 1% Avalon * 158 * 28 464% * 480 * 142 238% Camry * 2,119 * 2,079 2 …
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Canada light-vehicle sales by make, April and YTD
… 0.5% 0.4% 60% * 662 * 612 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 8% Scion * 561 * 400 0.7% 0.5% 40% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 ..... 1% 25% * 1,535 * 1,613 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% -5% Scion * 1,515 * 1,502 0.6% 0.6% 1% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 …
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Jaguar's U.S. boss leads drive to boost brand's image, awareness
… we are selling cars that are $40,000 to $80,000. They are bought by people in their 30s and early 40s. Even the average Evoque buyer is 43 years old. The average [Evoque] transaction price is nearly $50,000. We are not Scion .
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Goss: 'We have to move the Jaguar brand image forward'
… Even the average Evoque buyer is 43 years old. The average [Evoque] transaction price is nearly $50,000. We are not Scion . You have said establishing dealerships with both Jaguar and Land Rover franchises is going slowly. Is that still the case …
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Reuss wants a volume rwd Chevy
… priced sporty entry could give GM's mainstay brand a volume driver. Such a vehicle would compete with the Subaru BRZ and the Scion FR-S, the sibling rwd sports cars co-developed by Toyota Motor Corp. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., which owns Subaru …
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Ford scion was told Blue Oval needs no green
Bill Ford jokingly told an audience in Los Angeles last week that he was ordered "to stop associating with any known or suspected environmentalists" when he joined the family company in 1979 as a 22-year-old fresh out of Princeton. "I was a Bolshevik, for sure," the grandson of Henry Ford said at
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Toyota's 10 million plan: Common parts, randd
… did not say whether the number was for just Toyota, Lexus and Scion or whether it included affiliated brands such as Hino trucks ..... Daihatsu, is 9.96 million vehicles. For the Toyota, Lexus and Scion brands alone, the target is 8.95 million. Buffer from shocks …
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U.S. total vehicle sales by make, April and YTD
… 0.3% 22% * 5,786 * 5,731 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 1% Scion * 5,697 * 5,503 0.9% 0.9% 4% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 ..... 1% * 19,571 * 21,265 0.4% 0.5% -0.1% -8% Scion * 22,074 * 20,674 0.9% 0.8% 7% 0.0 0.0 0.0 …
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U.S. light-vehicle sales by nameplate, April and YTD
… xB (I) * 1,578 * 1,617 -2% * 6,135 * 6,482 -5% xD (I) * 705 * 916 -23% * 2,737 * 3,466 -21% Total Scion car (I) * 5,697 * 5,503 4% * 22,074 * 20,674 7% Avalon * 6,321 * 2,881 119% * 23,846 * 12,924 85% Camry …
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U.S. car sales, April and YTD
… xB (I) * 1,578 * 1,617 -2% * 6,135 * 6,482 -5% xD (I) * 705 * 916 -23% * 2,737 * 3,466 -21% Total Scion (I) * 5,697 * 5,503 4% * 22,074 * 20,674 7% Avalon * 6,321 * 2,881 119% * 23,846 * 12,924 85% Camry …
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Toyota car sales slide in April
… though, jumped 119 percent to 6,321 units. Toyota's youth brand, Scion , was buoyed by the new FR-S, with deliveries of 1,629 units. Sales for the rest of the Scion lineup, though, fell 26 percent. Light trucks were a bright spot for …
