Heavily automated, it can build a four-cylinder engine in less than the 1.82 worker hours it takes at Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people )'s best engine factory in West Virginia.
The big carmakers likely have plenty of credits in the bank, having sold everything from neighborhood electric vehicles to General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people )' EV1 electric car and Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people )'s electric RAV4.
The company should have been reinvesting to keep the Taurus ahead of Toyota 's (nyse: TM - news - people ) Camry and Honda 's (nyse: HMC - news - people ) Accord.
Eighty percent of Japan's Toyota Motor 's (nyse: TM - news - people ) profits come from the U.S. market.
Toyota 's ( TM - news - people ) missteps is also a factor in its success.
FORBES: Apple, Facebook, Amazon are solid, Wall Street says.
Toyota 's ( TM - news - people ) FT-CH concept, a compact hybrid, is close to what its next hybrid, slotted below the current Prius, will look like.
Toyota 's ( TM - news - people ) FT-CH concept, smaller than the popular Toyota Prius hybrid, and signaling the Japanese automaker's intention to roll out a full family of Prius hybrid vehicles.
Ulrich and Toyota Motor 's (nyse: TM - news - people ) Hiroshi Okuda , both at 80%.
"Yeah, there's that little thing called safety, " says David Hermance, executive engineer for Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people )'s Advanced Technology Vehicles.
ViaVideo's engineers used two Philips TM-1000 digital signal processors capable of handling, between them, 6 billion operations a second -- the equivalent of seven Intel Pentium II microprocessors found in top-of-the-line PCs.
Japan's marquee automakers have jumped into hybrids, electrics and hydrogen cars, following Toyota 's (nyse: TM - news - people ) success with the Prius and its other hybrid cars.
The business world lost another remarkable American in November: Bob McCurry, auto industry veteran who, with Yukiyasu Togo, took the helm of Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people )'s U.S. sales division in the early 1980s.
The new G-DRIVE slim leverages Hitachi GST's rugged, 7mm Travelstar(TM) Z5K320 drive, making it the thinnest, 2.5-inch external hard drive in the world.
ENGADGET: Hitachi GST's G-Drive Slim: world's thinnest 2.5-inch external hard drive
The BDX3000's ability to play Blu-ray 3D TM Discs augments its broad range of features.
ENGADGET: Toshiba brings WX800 and VX700 HDTVs stateside, BDX3000 3D Blu-ray player this month
Keiser says the battery and semiconductors are 60% of that cost, suggesting good growth for Sanyo and Matsushita's joint venture with Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ).
In a world where Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) is building auto plants in the U.S., is the thought of MLB owning Japanese teams so far fetched?
Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) postponed all business trips to Hong Kong and China's Guangdong province.
Even Toyota Motor (nyse: TM - news - people )--which is seen as the auto-world's success story--has sunk 18.3%.
"With the power of Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) behind it, you can never underestimate Lexus, " says BMW's worldwide sales and marketing chief, Michael Ganal.
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