{"id":575739,"date":"2010-05-22T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=57400"},"modified":"2010-05-22T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T18:46:41","slug":"report-toyota%e2%80%99s-u-s-sales-incentive-losing-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575739","title":{"rendered":"Report: Toyota\u2019s U.S. sales incentive losing spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 573px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Toyota\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/toyota_dealership_main_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toyota<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Toyota\u2019s aggressive incentive campaign is starting to lose effect, says Edmunds, as retail sales for the company fell 12% in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re noticing that Toyota&#8217;s incentive program is starting to fall on deaf ears since most of the people who were open to getting deals from the automaker already made their purchases,&#8221; said Edmunds analyst Jessica Caldwell.<\/p>\n<p>While Toyota seems to be having problems recovering from recent image troubles, Lexus brand sales are actually up 22% from April.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-57400\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though down since last month, Toyota sales are still running 22% higher when compared to the same time last year.  J.D. Power estimates May\u2019s industry-wide retail sales to be down 6% from April.  These numbers however, do not reflect fleet sales.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Stephen Calogera<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100521\/RETAIL01\/305219950\/1448\">Automotive News<\/a> (Subscription Required)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/66qfRxr6NMdWS5dgHApGWp0U_dc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/66qfRxr6NMdWS5dgHApGWp0U_dc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/66qfRxr6NMdWS5dgHApGWp0U_dc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/66qfRxr6NMdWS5dgHApGWp0U_dc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UyRAx9LW3EE:BBpo060OtJs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UyRAx9LW3EE:BBpo060OtJs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=UyRAx9LW3EE:BBpo060OtJs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UyRAx9LW3EE:BBpo060OtJs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=UyRAx9LW3EE:BBpo060OtJs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UyRAx9LW3EE:BBpo060OtJs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UyRAx9LW3EE:BBpo060OtJs:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Toyota\u2019s aggressive incentive campaign is starting to lose effect, says Edmunds, as retail sales for the company fell 12% in May. &#8220;We&#8217;re noticing that Toyota&#8217;s incentive program is starting to fall on deaf ears since most of the people who were open to getting deals from the automaker already made their purchases,&#8221; said Edmunds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}