Toyota Turkiye marks a great 6 months

"Record production and exports in Toyota Turkiye's history"

After the first 6 months of year 2004, Toyota Turkiye announced its production and export results

Toyota Turkiye producing and exporting Corolla Sedan, SW and Verso models, had an all-time record of 58,645 units production in the period from January to June 2004, an increase of 73% over the first half of 2003. Also the export within this period became 53,517 units, an increase of 74% over the first half of last year. This year, start of Corolla Verso production and export was a milestone in Toyota Turkiye's history. With the addition of New Corolla Verso to production line up, Toyota Turkiye became one of the biggest exporters of Turkiye. For the first 6 months, EU countries were the main export countries.

Toyota Turkiye CEO and president Mr. Koji Kobayashi released a message evaluating the first 6 months :

"Our first half results are important both for Europe operation and Turkish economy : Our production reached to record levels and in this way our contribution to Europe operation increased. And also we became one of the biggest exporters of Turkiye with over 630 million € export. The quality of Corolla Sedan, SW and Verso models are admired by both within Toyota and customers. This year, we are aiming to be number one automobile exporter of Turkiye." said Mr. Kobayashi

The New Corolla Verso was produced of 30,180 units. Meanwhile, exportation of the new Corolla Verso became 28,500 units in the 6 months period. And exportation of Corolla Sedan in the first half reached to 13,151 units. SW exports for the first half became 11,886 units,.

For the first six months, Germany was Toyota Turkiye's largest export country in Europe, followed by the Poland, Italy, Russia and France. On the other hand, top New Corolla Verso countries were Germany, Italy, France, UK and Netherlands.

Toyota Turkiye is the only production base for New Corolla Verso in the world. The New Corolla Verso has achieved a maximum 5 Stars award in Euro NCAP.

If we look at the Toyota's European operation, Toyota sold an all-time record of 502,016 units in the period from January to June 2004, an increase of 15% over the first half of 2003. This marks the first time Toyota's six-month sales have exceeded the 500,000-unit mark in Europe. Toyota's European market share for the first half reached 5.1%, up from 4.7 % last year. Toyota continued to grow in the five biggest European markets and sales of its core models - all built in Europe - increased further.