pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/" rel="tag"Sedans/Saloons/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/euro/" rel="tag"Euro/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/" rel="tag"Hatchbacks/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/daimlerchrysler/" rel="tag"Daimler/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/lexus/" rel="tag"Lexus/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mercedes-benz/" rel="tag"Mercedes-Benz/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="www.reuters.com/article/GCA-autos/idUSTRE5604AR20090701"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/lexus_ls460_w-merc-580op.jpg" //abr /br /According to a report from emAuto Motor und Sport/em, Toyota is considering a partnership with Daimler to build Mercedes-Benz' A- and B-Class sub-compacts on the Japanese automaker's MC platform. The idea is to maximize the efficiency and output of Toyota's European plants, and could also include sharing development costs on each brand's next generation flagships: the Lexus LS and Mercedes S-Class. Daimler has dismissed the report as "speculation," while a Toyota Motor Europe spokesman toed the company line, only saying "It's part of our normal business practice that we regularly talk to other carmakers but there are no specific projects planned at the moment."br /br /[Source: Auto Motor und Sport via a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-autos/idUSTRE5604AR20090701"Reuters/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/01/report-toyota-considering-cooperation-with-daimler-on-compact/"REPORT: Toyota considering cooperation with Daimler on compact, full-size models/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:41:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/01/report-toyota-considering-cooperation-with-daimler-on-compact/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19084167/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/01/report-toyota-considering-cooperation-with-daimler-on-compact/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a_XNFYX_LJaVDcgBj1ztPXbq944/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a_XNFYX_LJaVDcgBj1ztPXbq944/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a_XNFYX_LJaVDcgBj1ztPXbq944/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a_XNFYX_LJaVDcgBj1ztPXbq944/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=oooMfNEhI4Y:LBwQPsMj-Do:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=oooMfNEhI4Y:LBwQPsMj-Do:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=oooMfNEhI4Y:LBwQPsMj-Do:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=oooMfNEhI4Y:LBwQPsMj-Do:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/oooMfNEhI4Y" height="1" width="1"/

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