{"id":4249,"date":"2010-03-05T16:34:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:34:53","slug":"toyota-starts-china-sales-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/toyota-starts-china-sales-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota starts China sales campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Akio-Toyoda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4250\" title=\"Akio Toyoda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Akio-Toyoda-280x156.jpg\" alt=\"Akio Toyoda\" width=\"280\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Akio-Toyoda-280x156.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Akio-Toyoda.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Toyota said it had started a sales blitz in China days after the company president apologised to drivers in the world&#8217;s biggest car market for pulling 75,000 vehicles as part of its global recall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Company president Akio Toyoda said sorry to Chinese consumers over the accelerator system defects, bowing before hundreds of journalists at a Beijing hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The new sales drive includes interest-free loans for some models as well as roadside service and petrol coupons, company spokeswoman Wei Sun said in Tokyo. She denied the campaign was triggered by Toyota&#8217;s mass recall crisis, which saw it pull over eight million cars worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Wei Sun stressed that Toyota&#8217;s February sales in China were strong, rising 30 per cent year on year, but conceded that &#8216;the number of people who visit our sales outlets is dropping a little bit&#8217;. &#8216;We hope this campaign will help motivate people to come to our outlets.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The promotional offers vary by model, Wei Sun said. For the Crown luxury sedan, &#8216;we will start zero-per cent interest loans as well as 24-hour roadside service for two years for sales contracts made between March 10 and the end of April,&#8217; she told.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota said it had started a sales blitz in China days after the company president apologised to drivers in the world&#8217;s biggest car market for pulling 75,000 vehicles as part of its global recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,51,118,167,14],"tags":[294,5351,5352,5354,288,4922],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-economy","category-hot","category-technology","category-world","tag-akio-toyoda","tag-akio-toyoda-sorry","tag-akio-toyoda-wei-sun","tag-beijing-hotel","tag-toyota","tag-toyota-president-akio-toyoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}