pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/06/camry-ab-garage-580x.jpg" /br /br /Auto sales in 2009 have been a real stinker, but companies are starting to feel a bit more bullish about the immediate future of the industry. Earlier this week, Ford announced that it was a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/01/ford-to-increase-production-by-10-in-third-quarter/"bumping Q3 production by 10%/a, and now Toyota is getting more aggressive still by adding 65,000 units to its Q2 quota. The Aishi, Japan-based automaker plans to add production to its most popular models. The Camry, Corolla, Sienna, Tundra, Tacoma and Rav4 are all going to see more action during the summer months.br /br /Part of the reason for Toyota's optimism is due to the Japanese automaker's May sales. On the surface, sales were putrid, with a a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/02/by-the-numbers-may-2009-gm-and-ford-surprise-edition/"decline of 40%/a versus a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/03/by-the-numbers-may-2008-f-150-falls-edition/"May 2008/a. But last May 2008 was a far better month for Toyota than it was many of its competitors, making the 40% figure a bit misleading. Toyota's sales actually increased by 21% when compared to April 2009.br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.autonews.com/article/20090603/ANA05/906039997/1176"Automotive News/a subs req'd]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/04/report-toyota-sees-u-s-turnaround-in-sight-plans-to-boost-pro/"REPORT: Toyota sees U.S. turnaround in sight, plans to boost production/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:32:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.autonews.com/article/20090603/ANA05/906039997/1176Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/04/report-toyota-sees-u-s-turnaround-in-sight-plans-to-boost-pro/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19056265/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/04/report-toyota-sees-u-s-turnaround-in-sight-plans-to-boost-pro/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w8ncCBIJ-ri6rcX56372QjvdRgY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w8ncCBIJ-ri6rcX56372QjvdRgY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w8ncCBIJ-ri6rcX56372QjvdRgY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w8ncCBIJ-ri6rcX56372QjvdRgY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=xtl54fkCGus:3PxnBEoSbMo:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=xtl54fkCGus:3PxnBEoSbMo:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=xtl54fkCGus:3PxnBEoSbMo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=xtl54fkCGus:3PxnBEoSbMo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/xtl54fkCGus" height="1" width="1"/

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