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Comment by alephnerd

1 month ago

That's due to brand positioning.

If you position an automotive product in India to be affordable, you lose aspirational consumers (India1).

Toyota is trying to position itself as a luxury brand in India in order to better defend revenue, as in NAM and JP the Toyota brand has a similar reputation as Maruti Suzuki does in India.

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