Inaba said Toyota would look for ways to utilize its vast global sales network to market the vehicles for a niche segment of customers that may share U.S. consumers' unique taste for bigger cars and trucks.
"We have a very strong base of world distributors. I think we can take advantage of their sales network and their power of marketing," he said.
Inaba also said he wanted Toyota's North American operations to have a bigger role in developing vehicles -- a task performed mainly in Japan.