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Toyota Motor Corp. became the world's top auto seller in the first three months of the year, passing rival General Motors Corp. for the first time, the Japanese automaker said Tuesday.

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BronxBomber
April 24, 2007, 8:59 a.m.
Methinks that this bit of news does not bode well for GM.
Somebody over at GM better start putting on they're thinking caps.
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tehranchik
April 24, 2007, 10:48 a.m.
Fuel efficient cars--that's what it's about when gasoline is over $3 a gallon and rising. Here in Portland gas is anywhere from $3.05--$3.30.
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pc25
April 24, 2007, 7:20 p.m.
it's reliability, resale value, gas milage, quality of workmanship
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Dionys
April 24, 2007, 9:36 p.m.
The problem is that however awful GM does, and it's quite awful, they will continue to be bailed out by the US government using our tax dollars to perpetuate mediocracy.
That isn't democracy, that certainly isn't capitalism.
Toyota and Honda make better cars with better gas mileage, with a pride and sense of turning out a great product that American car manufacturers lack. They deserve every penny they get from the US economy for their meticulously made cars.
American cars have been garbage for decades and continue to hold that title.
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Teech
April 24, 2007, 10:39 p.m.
Hmmmmmmm.........I wonder if those hybrids that we were told would never sell in this country had anything to do with it. If GM would quit sucking from Big Oil and remanufacture the EV1 with current energy recapture and battery technology, they'd be surprised. See "Who Killed The Electric Car" and see what happened. I'm not counting GM, Ford, and Chrysler out yet!
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stephen-johnson
April 24, 2007, 11:24 p.m.
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/04/08/genera...
The sad part about this subject is watching these two companies going in almost opposite directions -- at least for now. General Motors General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) has a current market capitalization of $18 billion versus the behemoth Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) with a massive market capitalization of $236 billion, over 13 times bigger than GM. Yet on the surface one would never guess these numbers as their revenues are fairly close in comparison: GM for 2007, estimates revenues of $173 billion, and Toyota's at $200 billion.
It's what's underneath the hood that distinguishes these companies.
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Searchbeam
April 25, 2007, 12:05 a.m.
On a recent trip to Dallas, TX, I drove a Pontiac Torrent mini SUV for about a week.
A very nice, comfortable and responsive car. It gave me 27 mpg in mixed city/highway driving! Very impressive, indeed! I was surprised.
Now, if only GM can pull its head out of sand and start thinking and acting like a number two, it can bring some aggressive and creative thinking to the show!
Give power to the guys on the line! They will pull GM to the front, the same way they do it for Toyota.