Toyota to make Prius, not SUV, at new US Plant

Toyota's announcement that the new Mississippi facility will produce the Prius is a smaret decision to increase capacity for a marketable product, with variant potential for the future. Toyota's temporary suspension of production in Indiana and Texas to reconfigure the plants for greater product flexibility is a model already proven to be a smart capital investment strategy by Nissan and BMW. Toyota...

1. Toyota's management is showing far more responsiveness to the direction the consumer is taking in response to the oil prices and to the escalating evidence of global warming than the Detroit car makers. With their ability to provide what the customer wants, they stand to out-run the Big Three in record time. 2.  Prius may well become the#1 selling hybrid car in the US--it will be assembled...