Toyota Camry

carazoo.com asked:


Every individual will have different moods everyday, but one thing that remains constant is their persona. It is the same with the colour choice that is preferences may differ but every person will a have their favorite colour. The favorite colour of an individual also reflects the characteristics and nature of an individual and I feel selecting a colour for your car also depends upon the kind of person the owner is!

The Indian auto market offers various colors to its vehicles but the top five colours or shades customers prefer are among the best-selling car models. To start with is the colour:

Silver shines

In Indian tradition, the gold is given the preference but in terms of cars; the silver outshines the yellow metal. The colour silver on a car is the best seller among all the car models and most of the customers prefer the colour first. It is the silver days for Indians

Silver colour indicates the elegance clubbed with simplicity. It projects out a clear evidence is the spark that one can notice in the onlookers’ eyes. Hyundai and Maruti buyers mostly prefer bright silver and silky silver colour, where as for the Honda and Toyota it is the new warm silver and silver metallic that sells the most. Looking into the Toyota figure, we noticed that each dealer sells almost 600 silver cars a month.

Beige

It is the color signifying simplicity. A classic and soothing colour that is best suited for the country like India. Its softness and class makes it the No. 2 choice of Indian car buyers. The colour is referred to as Real Earth or Grace Beige, and most of the car that carry this colours are Santro Xing and Getz from Hyundai. Some of the models like Mahindra and Mahindra’s Scorpio (diamond white), Ford Fiesta (platinum), Honda CR-V (opal beige metallic), Toyota Corolla, Camry and Innova (beige mica metallic), Maruti Alto, Zen and Wagon R (pearl silver) are combined with the shades of beige clubbed with the other similar shades are selling like hot cakes.

Black

The colour of power comes third in the rank. Though black is associated with sadness in India, and also picks up heat, scratches faster but still is a colour party goer. It stays ahead of the colour ‘white’ which is again one of the hot selling colours. Black is the colour of youngsters and it is favored colour across small to large cars segment.

Almost all the car brands offer this colour. Some of the cars that have different name for the colour for black are Maruti Alto and Wagon R (midnight black), Swift (metallic midnight black), Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. In the new Honda City ZX, the colour is popularly known as Night hawk and Night hawk black pearl in the best-selling SUV of Honda CR-V.

White

the universal colour, the colour of peace and calmness. This evergreen colour always remains in fashion, our kings of yesteryears Ambassador was always in this royal colour.

Sold the maximum (and visible on the roads) in cars like Wagon R (superior white), Toyota Corolla (pearl white), Toyota Camry (super white) and Honda City (tafeta white).

Red

Tagged as the colour of love is definitely is a bold for certain cars. Some of the cars that look ‘hot’ in red are Accents, Swifts and Lancers in bright red. Some of the car in small segment like Altos moving around in wine red or bright red is seen too. Paprika red is the colour of Ford Fiesta fans and dark red mica metallic goes for MUV Innova from Toyota.

Honda city looks classy in its royal ruby red. Though a very sensational colour but may not be the most suited for the hot Indian conditions.



Harvey

Anthony Fontanelle asked:


Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp., two of the world’s three largest auto makers, reported strong first-half sales in China’s fast-growing market. As newcomers in China’s auto market, the sales performance was remarkable, analysts said. The performance is boosted by the launch of new product lines which are aimed at attracting more customers.

Toyota sold 212,000 vehicles during the period, up 77 percent from a year earlier, powered by strong demand for its Camry sedans, the best-selling car in the United States in eight of the past nine years.

Toyota, Japan’s largest automaker, rolled out its first China-made Camry in May 2006 from a new plant in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, to pull auto shoppers away from competing models such as Honda Motor Co.’s Accord. Sales of the Camry came to nearly 78,000 units, well on track to hit the full-year target of 150,000, or more than one-third of the Japanese automaker’s total China sales goal of 430,000 vehicles this year.

Ford said retail sales of its wholly owned brands in China increased 25 percent during the first half to 93,206 vehicles. Sales of the mid-sized Focus sedan, made by a joint venture between Ford, Mazda Motor Corp and Changan Automobile Co. Ltd., came to 55,676 units, up 66 percent from a year ago, the Dearborn automaker said in a statement.

There also was a soaring demand for luxury models in China, as its growing ranks of nouveau riche snapped up the latest premium models. Toyota sold 12,000 Lexus cars in the half-year, nearly matching the 13,000 sold in all of 2006 and well on track to meet its full-year 2007 target of 22,000.

Meanwhile, Ford’s Premier Automotive Group, which includes Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover brands, posted combined sales of 8,779 units, up 66 percent from a year earlier. Ford wheels seem to be swerving in the right lane to attain such rewarding gains.

Additionally, industry’s global giants are investing a great deal to ramp up Chinese production capacity to amass a larger slice of the market, where total car sales increased 30 percent in the previous year to 5.18 million units.

Toyota, which gets six percent of the China auto market, completed construction in May of its third plant in Tianjin, increasing capacity at its venture with FAW and its subsidiary Tianjin FAW Xiali Automobile Co. to 420,000 units. The Japanese automaker also is in talks about building a second plant at its venture in south China, which produces the Camry sedan.

Ford, which has less than a four percent share in China, is expanding a facility in the southwest city of Chongqing along with its partners. They are also building a plant in Nanjing, in eastern China. By the end of this year, it will boost its annual production capacity in China to 460,000 units, including 410,000 at Changan Ford Mazda and 50,000 at Jiangling Motors, in which the company holds a 30 percent stake.

In the United States, there’s a different ambiance. Despite more aggressive discounts, Ford on Tuesday reported lower sales for June, underscoring the drag from rising gas prices, weak housing market, and tight auto competition. The automaker’s overall monthly sales, including sales into commercial fleets, were down eight percent, even if it eked out its first monthly gain in showroom sales since October.

Five of the six leading automakers offered bigger discounts in June than they did in May, according to Edmunds. GM was the exception. In a significant departure from usual practice, the three leading Japanese automakers increased their discounting in the face of slack demand, Edmunds said.



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