Toyota backs off full-sized pickup war
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Mark Rechtin
Automotive News | October 3, 2008 - 1:52 pm EST

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Toyota won’t engage the Tundra in U.S. pickup truck sales wars this year.

 
PARIS — Despite [...]

 
GM to close Ohio SUV plant 2 years ahead of plan
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David Barkholz
Automotive News | October 3, 2008 - 4:30 pm EST
 
 
DETROIT — General Motors is ending production of its slow-selling mid-sized SUVs on Dec. 23, two years earlier than announced in June.
GM is pulling ahead the closure of its Moraine, Ohio, assembly plant because [...]

 
Toyota offers 0% financing on 11 models
Move could heat up incentive battles
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Hans Greimel
Automotive News | October 3, 2008 - 12:01 am EST

Bob Carter, Toyota Division general manager
Photo credit: JOE WILSSENS

 
TOKYO — Toyota is turning to 0 percent financing on 11 models as [...]

 
Industry leaders ramp up rescue support
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Harry Stoffer
Automotive News | October 2, 2008 - 5:02 pm EST
 
 
WASHINGTON — Automobile industry leaders today turned up pressure on Congress to pass a financial rescue package that they say is necessary to thaw frozen credit markets.
General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, in an e-mail to company employees, asked them [...]