Toyota Announces Revised October Sales

5 November 1997
Toyota Announces Revised October Sales

    TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 5 -- Toyota Motor Sales, USA (TMS),
Inc., today announced revisions to October sales figures for all models
released yesterday.  A glitch in a new computer system resulted in a late
announcement in addition to the erroneous figures.
    Toyota apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused.


                              TOYOTA/LEXUS SALES
                                OCTOBER, 1997
                                                    DSR %               DSR %
                               1997     1996    CHG      1997     1996   CHG

    TOTAL VEHICLE SALES     95,562    92,918    2.8 1,027,864   978,430  5.5
      Memo: Total Toyota Div.86,412   85,558    1.0   947,973   912,551  4.3
      Memo: Total Lexus Div. 9,150     7,360   24.3    79,891    65,879 21.7

    TOYOTA DIV. IMPORT CAR   9,278     9,056    2.5   109,281   142,605-23.1
    LEXUS IMPORT CAR         8,699     6,759   28.7    73,511    59,825 23.4
    TOYOTA DIV NA BUILT CARS41,160    46,461  -11.4   509,391   470,288  8.7
    TOTAL TOYOTA CARS       59,137    62,276   -5.0   692,183   672,718  3.3

    SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES  17,194    15,414   11.5   180,850   144,501 25.6
      Memo: Lexus Sport
        Utility                451       601  -25.0     6,380     6,054  5.8

    SMALL VANS               4,629       727  536.7     8,263     7,591  9.3
    PICKUPS                 14,602    14,501    0.7   146,568   153,620 -4.2

    * NORTH AMERICAN BUILT VEHICLES
    COROLLA                 15,472    14,620    5.8   186,264   170,242  9.8
    CAMRY                   20,418    25,125  -18.7   264,979   238,184 11.7
    AVALON                   5,270     6,716  -21.5    58,148    61,862 -5.6
    SIENNA                   4,544         0     NA     4,544         0   NA
    PICKUP                  13,041    10,974   18.8   120,281   120,656  0.1
    TOTAL                   58,745    57,435    2.3   634,216   590,944  7.7
    N.A. VEHICLES % OF TOTAL 61.5%     61.8%            61.7%     60.4%

    SELLING DAYS                27        27              257       258
    DSR = DAILY SELLING RATE

SOURCE  Toyota Motor Sales, U. S. A., Inc.