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jwgirardot @ Jul 21st 2007 10:32PM
Do you realize that in 9 out of the top 10 markets in the world, GM outsells Toyota? Guess which one Toyota is tops in? You got it: Japan. There, Toyota sells approximately 2 million units more annually than GM does. Back that out of the equation and GM would still be number 1, and by a comfortable margin. And that's legit, too, because the Japanese, as is pointed out, do not allow (as a practical matter) foreign vehicle imports.
I'm not saying that Toyota hasn't done a great job in getting to where it is. All of its competitors, including GM, study Toyota's successes and imitate many of them. However, that's also not to say that Toyota has not had some substantial help from the Japanese government via the aforementioned import restrictions and manipulation of the yen. Not only that, but look at our own U.S. double standards relating to labor/management relations that allows foreign manufacturers to waltz in here and set up non-union shops in the South, and there's a real thumb on the scale in Toyota's favor.