They could hammer the body of a Toyota or a Pontiac to resemble a dream car.
At the Cup season-opening Daytona 500, Michael Waltrip drove a Toyota with a paint scheme supporting a relief fund for victims of the Sandy Hook shootings.
Last year because of the all wheel drive I went from a Toyota Corolla to a Subaru Impreza .
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More than a decade after winning Season One, Clarkson continues to grow her career, and her bank account, with the help of gold-certified album Stronger, a mentor role on The Voice, a Toyota commercial and a lucrative tour.
Many other new vehicles being unveiled this week are small, fuel-efficient models, including a second Prius model from Toyota, a redesigned Honda Civic, the new Chevrolet Sonic and the Buick Verano.
Toyota has had a foreigner on its board just once in the past, in 2007, with Jim Press, an American who had headed Toyota's North American operations at a time when fears were growing about a possible American backlash over Toyota's stupendous growth.
The vehicle on the video was a Toyota Land Cruiser with a black bull-bar and no gap between the front seats.
The school is located in a mixed industrial-retail area near a Wal-Mart and a Toyota dealership and across a freeway from the O.co Coliseum, the home of the Oakland Raiders football team and A's baseball club that used to be known as the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
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So, as Painter sees it, you would buy a Duesenberg with, say, an engine built by Toyota, a chassis by Dana and exterior panels by Owens-Corning.
Of the Japanese producers, only Honda has for the moment made a big investment inside Mercosur's walls, though Toyota has a small plant making pick-ups, and is building another small one to make Corolla cars.
As for Timor quality, Cholid, a driver whose wife works for a Jakarta securities firm, says he won't be swapping his Toyota for a Timor.
Howard and his legal team say they plan to appear in federal court in San Diego, California, later this week, trying to persuade a federal judge to combine the 88 individual lawsuits so far filed against Toyota into a single class-action litigation.
No long ago Toyota enjoyed a reputation for safety, reliability and quality that was virtually unmatched, and this allowed Toyota pricing power versus competitors.
In automobile terms, it equates to the Toyota Camry in economy, a Lexus in styling, and a Toyota Tacoma in its tough, rough, off-the-road capability.
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Like, once when they were pitching Toyota they transformed their agency reception area into a Toyota showroom and to do this, they had to remove the front office windows, so that a crane could actually lift the car .
What if 10, 000 buyers shopping for a Toyota Camry got together and negotiated a fleet price?
Still, Toyota managed a 14.2% increase in net income even as sales rose just 1%.
So Toyota installed a new set of robots that use individual cartridges of paint.
Toyota announced a 90-day deferred first payment program to assist consumers in the region.
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In July Toyota unveiled a concept bicycle, the PXP, with a thought-controlled gear-shift mechanism.
Toyota commands a lofty 40 times earnings, but then it has a popular website, gazoo.com.
If you deliver pizzas in Monaco or Marrakech, oh baby, has Toyota got a car for you.
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"There are few areas where you don't hit Toyota as a benchmark, " says Dieter Zetsche, Chrysler's chief executive.
That will probably come in the future, when Toyota unveils a plug-in engine.
Toyota reported a 49% drop in sales in September, while Honda and Nissan's sales fell 40% and 35% respectively.
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Toyota is a company that was built on integrity, and that remains one of the guiding principles of the company.
Having a strong, profitable dealer network is a huge advantage for Toyota, and a huge disadvantage for domestics like Chrysler, he says.
Toyota took a deeper dive, first spending four years developing its own software that connects dealers to factories and factories to suppliers.
Whereas three years ago, 80% of Americans saw Toyota as a company that built quality products, that figure dropped to around 20%.
The Tacoma collided with a Toyota 4Runner, and it hit a Mercedes-Benz.
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