Toyota actually may have done 5 times better than stated:
The company's sales in the region will grow as much as five times faster than what the carmaker, poised to become the world's biggest, predicts for the year ending March 31, according to analyst estimates. North America accounts for about 60 percent of Toyota's operating profit.
``Toyota has spent decades winning the hearts and minds of U.S. consumers,'' said Yasuhiro Matsumoto, a senior analyst at Shinsei Securities Co. in Tokyo. ``They don't want to gloat when the U.S. Big Three are having so much trouble.''
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