Toyota - sunshine and blizzards

摘要

Toyota, the world's leading and most successful volume carmaker, and renowned for its cunning ability to withstand most of what the volatile industry brings its way, ranks among the market's biggest casualties In February, and at a time when West Europe's overall car market topped last year's same month's sales levels by 5 per cent, Toyota's own sales dropped by a contrasting 18.9 per cent, pulled down chiefly by a potentially devastating deterioration in its German fortunes, where its February sales took a two-thirds plunge.