Toyota Sales Meteor Upwards 57.5% In June - Lexus Hits The Stratosphere With A 79% Gain For Month

Stop the presses, shouldn't this read... Lexus Barely Eeks Out a 79% Gain, and Only in Comparison to 2 Acts of God and 1 Act of the Commie Pinko Hussein Obama (Not Born in the US) Government, and They're Still Behind BMW, and Audi is going to Catch Them Soon.

C'mon 009, you disappoint me!

Yeah, I was not expecting these kind of headlines from 009. Are you ok man?

inb4 tsunami tsunami tsunami.

I was going to say Ford as well but I've noticed Hyundai and KIA aren't listed yet. They had increases of 10%.

They offer, it seems, better incentives that the Japs so you'd think their sales would be higher, even without a crappy year before to work with.

I'd say the free ride is over although it makes me wonder who's losing market share if sales are up for everyone. Something doesn't add up.

...Wow, you dummy's are clueless!

Good recovery by Toyota post Tsunami. New GS is such a good car it deserves even better sales.

no way! sales are much higher than the june of last year when the full affect of the tsunami hit sales?!? how can this be???

tiguan: don't misquote me. i said they had plenty of inventory by the fall after toyota announced in august 2011 that they were back to 100% capacity. the toylex fanboys on here have been blaming all toyota's problems on the tsunami for 2 years before and a full year after.

average quality and boring product (as mr. toyoda himself said) are their biggest problems.

LS is tanking. but GS is the really scary story at only 2k another month. they should be able to move 6-7k/month of a 4-month old model considering the much more expensive 2-year old 5-series is still moving over 5k/month. how can this be?

the ML is much more expensive. the CHEAPEST one starts at $50k. newflash: more expensive cars sell less volume. (except in the case of the IS which is far outsold by the much pricier 3-series and the GS which is outsold by both the pricier E and 5-series).

wrong. completely different reason in fact. the RX is considerably cheaper than the ML. newsflash: cheaper cars sell more volume. except in the case of the GS.

BD: wrong again. incentives for all the major luxury brands are within $1,000 of each other. we've already discussed this on 45,000 other threads. move on.

in terms of net selling price, lexus is well below BMW and mercedes when compared model-to-model.

The GS inventory is still tight. That's why the numbers are low. The more they get on the street and owners talk about how much they love them, sales will increase and so will production.

hahaahaaahahhaha! inventory is tight? that's why sales are declining? you'd think one of the world's most sophisticated manufacturers could produce more volume NOT LESS after 6 months of production. please explain.

When the new ES comes out, it will eat GS sales! They are almost the same size but ES is considerable cheaper.

you obviously haven't met lexus buyers. they like value-priced, cushy luxury cars. that's why the GS is a sales disappointment despite being value-priced relative to the 5 and E.

tiguan: yes, declining sales each month since launch are really terrifying. for lexus. so the GS is brand new and the 5-series is 2.5 years old. yet lexus can only move 2k/month and bmw can move 5k/month of a much more expensive car. lexus can't seem to launch anything but flops expect for the CT econocar.

hahaa! i find you all terribly amusing. i'm consistent. if 'success' is defined as selling more volume when the worst month in your company's past 20 years they you're totally right.

toylex are just appliances. soul-less, derivative designs. and, with a few exceptions, beyond boring to drive.