Mark Templin, Mark Templin group vice president and general manager of Lexus, the luxury division of Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. and recently appointed general manager, Lexus Product Marketing Planning Division, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), and Paul Williamsen, National Manager, Lexus International Training at Toyota Motor Corporation, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, [...]
Mark Templin, Group Vice President & General Manager & Global Marketing & Product planner, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, after the unveil of the Lexus LF-CC concept. Lexus was launched in 1989, for the United States market. How many countries are they in now? Who is Lexus’ biggest competitor? What is the average [...]
Somehow this video didn’t get published. Our apologies from www.drivingthenation.com. The night before the Detroit auto show the MGM grand had a party full of exotic vehicles. Everything from Lamborghinis, Maseratis, Rolls-Royce, Corvettes and Lexus were in regal attire. Music and cars. Enjoy Loading the player… jwplayer(“myElement”).setup({ file: “http://www.drivingthenation.com/video/2012_NAIAS_Exotics.mp4″, image: “http://www.drivingthenation.com/video/2012_NAIAS_Exotics.jpg”, });
It’s that time of the year again, time to whittle down the long list of new cars and trucks to decide which one is crowned car and truck/utility of the year award for 2013. The list below is referred to as the long list. For the most part, all new cars and trucks make it [...]
Grandma Dodie is 93, alive and doing well. Okay, Grandma Dodie isn’t 93, and she’s not a person. Grandma Dodie is a 1993 Lexus LS400, and she just got out of the hospital, commonly known as the service center at Lexus of Roseville, last week. I named my car Grandma Dodie after an eighty-year young [...]
WardsAuto U.S. Sales of Alternative Power Source Light Vehicles lists twenty-seven vehicles for sale as of November 2011. What are the cars and how is Volt faring compared to the other twenty-six vehicles? The twenty-seven, twenty-five if you don’t count the Mercury Milan and the Saturn Aura that are still listed, with the starting MSRP [...]
It’s been a humbling year for Toyota’s Robert S. Carter Group Vice President and General Manager – Toyota Division Toyota Motor Sales, USA. But Carter says that Toyota is coming back, and has stats and awards to prove it. But Lexus is also looking at taking some of Toyota’s sales from them. The CT200h is a [...]
80th International Motor Show, 2010 Geneva, Switzerland- Stroll with me on the floor of the 2010 Geneva autoshow. In the next four videos you will see: Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta concept by Pininfarina Alfa Romeo Pandion concept by Bertone Alfa Romeo Giulietta Aston Martin Cygnet pre-production concept 2011 Audi A1 Audi A1 E-Tron concept 2011 Audi [...]
80th International Motor Show,March 2010 Geneva, Switzerland- Stroll with me on the floor of the 2010 Geneva autoshow. In the next four videos you will see: Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta concept by Pininfarina Alfa Romeo Pandion concept by Bertone Alfa Romeo Giulietta Aston Martin Cygnet pre-production concept 2011 Audi A1 Audi A1 E-Tron concept 2011 Audi [...]
Toyota thought they had the problem fixed. I know. I talked to Robert”Bob” S. Carter Group Vice President and General Manager – Toyota Division Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., at the 2009 Los Angeles auto show and we talked about the accelerator problem. I asked him what effect it had on Toyota’s image because of the [...]
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