Toyota Motor president Katsuaki Watanabe has said his company would like to maintain friendly relations with General Motors and Nissan Motor.

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The remark came at a press conference in Japan after alliance talks between GM and Nissan-Renault came to an end last week, Kyodo News said.


Watanabe reportedly said GM and the Nissan-Renault team might have had their respective reasons to terminate their talks.


Toyota has kept cooperative relations with GM over a long time and provided Nissan with its petrol-electric hybrid system.


Watanabe also said Toyota could cooperate with any automaker mainly in technology development, the report added.

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