Toyota Motor expects to sell nearly 300,000 vehicles in China this year, up on the 183,000, including Lexus, sold in 2005.

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“This year maybe we can sell nearly 300,000 units, maybe a little less,” Toyota’s China representative Etsuo Hattori told Reuters.


Hattori reportedly said that in 2004 and 2005 Toyota sales in China had grown 50% to 60% a year.

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