Toyota Reports July Sales Up 17.7%: Lexus Up 5.6%

August 1, 2006 – Torrance, CA - Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., today reported its all-time best-ever monthly sales of 241,826 vehicles, an increase of 16.2 percent over July 2005. Calendar-year-to-date (CYTD) sales total 1,465,368 units, up 10.8 percent over the same period last year.

"Market conditions are playing to traditional Toyota strengths of fuel efficiency, a strong passenger car offerings as well as our comprehensive hybrid lineup," commented Jim Lentz, TMS executive vice president. "We fared reasonably well in the tough truck market, where fuel costs and heavy incentives are ongoing challenges.”

The Toyota Division posted its all-time best-ever sales month of 214,867, up 17.7 percent. The Lexus Division reported best-ever July sales with 26,959 units sold, an increase of 5.6 percent.

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MercBasher - 8/1/2006 6:11:39 PM

+2 Boost

Congrats to Toyota and Lexus. Lexus numbers are impressive because its new cars are selling well [IS and ES]and this year we still have the new engine GS350, new engine GS460 and stunning all-new LS460 - so the trend for Lexus for the rest of this year should be good too.

chewy - 8/1/2006 7:20:20 PM

+1 Boost

Toyota is now the number 2 selles, they passed Ford by several hundred units.