Has Toyota gone mad?

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Some O - 17 Jul 2006 00:59 GMT

From the Business Week site:

> JULY 15, 2006
>
> Top News
> By David Welch and David Kiley
>
> Will Toyota Make a Play for GM?
> Toyota may be considering foiling Renault-Nissan by making a surprise move to
> hook up with GM
> Top executives at Toyota Motor are mulling their own overture to GM to head
> off rival Nissan from forging an alliance that could help the Japanese-French
> car company, according to people with knowledge of the Japanese auto maker's
> plans.
> General Motors and Toyota have long worked together, albeit in a limited way.
> The two jointly operate an assembly plant in Freemont, Calif., where the
> Toyota Corolla, Matrix, and Tacoma pickup are assembled under the same roof
> as the Pontiac Vibe.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jul2006/db20060714_33
0155.htm?chan=top+news_top+news

Sometimes stranger things have happened, driven by corporate pressures.

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Coyoteboy - 17 Jul 2006 17:46 GMT

Well theyve stopped making/selling cars with any balls so nothing is
impossible.

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Mike Hunter - 17 Jul 2006 22:55 GMT

I doubt it, Toyota, like in the California plant, would have to actually
build vehicles in the US with at least 70% American parts, as required by
the UAW contract, and get to show a '1' on the VIN. But if they do they
will have to pay all their other US workers a decent wage like the workers
in the California plant and offer them some decent medical care and other
benefits like a good pension plan. Another disadvantage is Toyota will have
to start paying US corporate income taxes on the profits they make in the
US. One advantage for Toyota though, for the first time, they will
honestly be able to say made in the US by Americans ;)

mike hunt

> From the Business Week site:
>> JULY 15, 2006
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> Sometimes stranger things have happened, driven by corporate pressures.

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stevelibert@gmail.com - 18 Jul 2006 10:27 GMT

Mike Hunter trolled:

>Toyota will have
> to start paying US corporate income taxes on the profits they make in the
> US. One advantage for Toyota though, for the first time, they will
> honestly be able to say made in the US by Americans ;)

Don't count on it.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_30/b3994060.htm

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