http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/ Autoblog Comments for Toyota announces mid-model year price increases http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/]]>May 5th 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/
steel prices would effect everyone, and yes they are going up as demand for all those terrific Indian and Chinese autos that everyone is eyeing and thinks is wonderful for them

US needs to evolve past the standard auto print so we dont keep getting sucked into that]]>May 5th 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/
Fingers will point in all directions as prices rise, but the Fed is the engine of inflation. ]]>May 5th 2008 1:12PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/
Toyota: Modest price upgrade, but it doesn't bother me. Mainly because I'm not in the Market for a Toyota.]]>May 5th 2008 1:12PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/
This will be a boon for domestic automakers. Well, it would be if the UAW weren't trying to put them out of business.]]>May 5th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/
The article you're thinking of was referring to Toyota trucks.]]>May 5th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 9:27PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/My cousin is the tour guide at one plant. Nice man.

I'm not just talking autos here. I mean anything and everything. That's the good part of this side of the falling dollar.

Okay, they should make MORE CARS here than they already do, and they make plenty now.

How was that?

I like manufacturing. It's my degree. But it never paid me what I needed.]]>May 5th 2008 9:27PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/May 5th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/
The fleecing of the lemmings is drying up and they're getting scared. Hard to believe they're even marking up the Tundra. That's ballsy.

]]>May 5th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/05/toyota-announces-mid-model-year-price-increases/* If Toyota America needs to buy product from Japan, it costs more. If it buys from local suppliers or local affiliate plants, currency fluctuations don't hurt. Not paying (or worrying about) logistics is nice, too.
* Operating costs are (currently) lower in the US, no small thanks to the weak US dollar.

There is a hit when revenue is transferred back Japan, but it's more than offset by costs: the bulk of a vehicle's selling price is cost, not profit. For that reason, it's not suprising to see the Yaris go up, but it is odd to see the Tundra do it.

What would be happening here is the same sort of poaching that happens in Canada: the currency weakens and prices are adjusted as it's judged acceptable by marketing that this increase will be swallowed by the consumer. That this price will be brought down when the opportunity arises is fairy-wishes. This is a margin grab, pure and simple.

The right thing to do is use Freight charges to reflect currency fluctuations, raising and lowering it as needed. Of course, automakers already gouge on F+PDI and have for years--that particular trough is already empty.]]>May 5th 2008 2:22PM