Toyota may scale back its ambitious target of selling more vehicles in the United States this year than it did in 2007, as damage from an economic slowdown and soaring oil prices becomes more fully known. Surpassing the 2.62 million vehicles the company sold last year in the U.S. -- its biggest market -- would be difficult, Executive Vice President Tokuichi Uranishi told a shareholders meeting Tuesday, according to Toyota spokesman Paul Nolasco.
The world's No. 2 automaker announced in December that it was hoping to sell 2.64 million vehicles in the U.S. in 2008 and predicted a 5 percent jump in global sales to 9.85 million vehicles because of strong sales in emerging markets such as China and Russia.
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