Toyota says U.S. March sales down adjusted 3.4 percent

DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Co (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) on Tuesday posted a 3.4 percent decline in March sales after adjusting for two fewer sales days in the month compared with a year earlier.

The automaker, ranked No. 2 in the U.S. market by sales, said its Toyota-brand sales were down 2.9 percent. Sales for the Japanese automaker's luxury Lexus brand were down 6.9 percent, it said.

Toyota said its car sales were up 1.5 percent in the month, while truck sales dropped by 8.8 percent in March.

Without adjusting for the number of sales days in March, Toyota sales were down 10 percent from a year earlier.

(Reporting by Kevin Krolicki, editing by Richard Chang)