Could Toyota's hugs and kisses for GM, Ford be genuine?

For a guy whose company routinely bashes Detroit Auto's collective brains in, you've gotta give Toyota Motor Corp.'s Jim Press high marks for wielding power with grace.

He said again Tuesday that General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. are important to the U.S. economy, which we know. He predicted they will "come back stronger than ever and be successful," which we hope. He claimed Toyota isn't angling for a tie-up with GM, principally to foil a similar move by the Franco-Japanese alliance of Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co.


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