Toyota gambles with Fire Sale Prices over piling inventory!!!

Looks like inventory is piling up, and a good way of doing a fire sale
is Low Lease Rates to riskier customers (sub-prime?) instead of Cash
Incentives.

"For Toyota, the deal could be a financial disaster. To keep customers
coming to its showrooms amid a series of embarrassing recalls, Toyota
has been offering some of its best leasing terms in years.

And now it's offering leases to customers who are greater credit
risks. CNW Research noted in a report that one Toyota program requires
a credit score of "only 660 to qualify." That's seen as the dividing
line between good and poor credit.

"Toyota was in a corner. They had the recalls, and their inventory was
climbing," said Matt Traylen, chief economist for Automotive Lease
Group, or ALG, which analyzes residual and depreciation data.

Full article at:
http://www.freep.com/article/2010080...w-lease-offers

"john" > wrote in message
...
> Looks like inventory is piling up, and a good way of doing a fire sale
> is Low Lease Rates to riskier customers (sub-prime?) instead of Cash
> Incentives.


Lots of companies are feeling a crunch because people dont have jobs
like they once had. Some are still offering 0% interest loans for up to
6 years, just to try to move some inventory.

I dont think Toyota is still suffering very much from the recall problem.

If people have money to spend, they will continue to buy some cars, but
maybe not with the reckless abandon they did a few years ago.

On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:33:01 -0700, john wrote:

> Looks like inventory is piling up, and a good way of doing a fire sale
> is Low Lease Rates to riskier customers (sub-prime?) instead of Cash
> Incentives.
>
> "For Toyota, the deal could be a financial disaster. To keep customers
> coming to its showrooms amid a series of embarrassing recalls, Toyota
> has been offering some of its best leasing terms in years.


And think of the3 excellent cars people are going to get at these prices!

And, once you've had a Toyota, most people never buy anything but again.
I'd say it's a good gamble.

On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:06:44 -0400, Hachiroku ???? >
wrote:

>On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:33:01 -0700, john wrote:
>
>> Looks like inventory is piling up, and a good way of doing a fire sale
>> is Low Lease Rates to riskier customers (sub-prime?) instead of Cash
>> Incentives.
>>
>> "For Toyota, the deal could be a financial disaster. To keep customers
>> coming to its showrooms amid a series of embarrassing recalls, Toyota
>> has been offering some of its best leasing terms in years.
>
>
>And think of the3 excellent cars people are going to get at these prices!
>
>And, once you've had a Toyota, most people never buy anything but again.
>I'd say it's a good gamble.


The first Toyota I had was the LAST Toyota I've had. Piece of junk.

On Aug 1, 8:06 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B > wrote:

> And, once you've had a Toyota, most people never buy anything but again.

Because after you've had a Toyota, it goes into uncontrollable
acceleration, hits a tree and explodes?
(J/K! I had to neutralize some of the bias)

"Ashton Crusher" > wrote in message
>
> The first Toyota I had was the LAST Toyota I've had. Piece of junk.

A lot of people have had excellent results with Toyotas, Hondas, etc.
They also claim excellent results from GM, Ford and Chrysler.

And for each of the brands, there are those who resent ever having purchased
one of them.

Kruse > wrote in news:8557899f-013a-4817-98a3-
:

> On Aug 1, 8:06 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B > wrote:
>
>> And, once you've had a Toyota, most people never buy anything but again.
>
> Because after you've had a Toyota, it goes into uncontrollable
> acceleration, hits a tree and explodes?
> (J/K! I had to neutralize some of the bias)
>
Well, they *do* tend to do that when you point the vehicle at a tree and
hold down the gas pedal.

--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )

On Aug 1, 2:33*pm, john > wrote:
> Looks like inventory is piling up, and a good way of doing a fire sale
> is Low Lease Rates to riskier customers (sub-prime?) instead of Cash
> Incentives.
>
> "For Toyota, the deal could be a financial disaster. snip


"May 11, 2010, 3:16 a.m. EDT TOKYO (Marke****ch) -- Toyota Motor Corp.
Tuesday said it swung to a net profit of 209.46 billion yen ($2.26
billion) in the fiscal year which ended in March, reversing a year-ago
loss, and predicted the current year would also be more profitable
despite its recent plague of recall woes."

A $2.26B net profit disaster? Heh.

"ACAR" > wrote in message
...
> On Aug 1, 2:33 pm, john > wrote:
>> Looks like inventory is piling up, and a good way of doing a fire sale
>> is Low Lease Rates to riskier customers (sub-prime?) instead of Cash
>> Incentives.
>>
>> "For Toyota, the deal could be a financial disaster. snip
>
>
> "May 11, 2010, 3:16 a.m. EDT TOKYO (Marke****ch) -- Toyota Motor Corp.
> Tuesday said it swung to a net profit of 209.46 billion yen ($2.26
> billion) in the fiscal year which ended in March, reversing a year-ago
> loss, and predicted the current year would also be more profitable
> despite its recent plague of recall woes."
>
> A $2.26B net profit disaster? Heh.

john counted his earnings for the year 2009. A $2.26 net profit disaster!
LOL!