For much of this year, Toyota's production was rocked by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and then later in the year by
the rising value of the Yen against the dollar.
Forget any detour to the showroom.That, of course, must mean rival vehicles from Japan - such as the Toyota 4Runner, Nissan Pathfinder and Isuzu Trooper - are gathering dust in some distant corner.You would think so, based on the fact that
the rising value of the yen against the dollar has boosted Japanese vehicle prices to the point that it doesn't hurt to inhale deeply from the smelling salts before focusing on the window sticker.
Unfortunately those improvements, combined with inflation and the effects of
the rising value of the yen, have pushed the Miata's price up by $ 1,050 for» 94.
Not exact matches
A recent
rise in the
value of the Japanese
yen against the U.S. dollar is adding to pressures on Japanese companies who had reaped record profits as the
yen weakened in recent years, fattening earnings brought back to Japan in
yen terms.
Nintendo's trading
value, the product
of share price and trading volume, jumped fourfold in fiscal 2016 to 17.6 trillion
yen ($ 157 billion),
rising to the top
of Nikkei's charts for the first time since data became available 20 years ago.