But, you can also drive them into the kitchen of a townhouse, points out Takeshi Matsunaga, project advisor at Toyota Auto Body.
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In a world where Toyota is building auto plants in the U.S., is the thought of MLB owning Japanese teams so far fetched?
In Japan, auto firm Toyota topped the charts, with a nomination rate of 59%.
Toyoda wept openly during one emotional show of support from Toyota dealers in the U.S. Then in 2011, an earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan wiped out auto suppliers and Toyota's vehicle production plunged.
Market leaders Nissan, Toyota and Honda use the auto show to reveal their wackiest concept cars.
This is despite the recently announced auto deal with Toyota and price increases that will migrate to the 40% of subscribers that still remain.
Honda competes with major auto makers like Toyota Motor, General Motors, Ford Motor and Hyundai and makes majority of its revenues through interest and lease payments on vehicles.
Just as innovation matters in the tech category, it matters in the auto category and Toyota, while buckling down on the basics and every other rule of brand ascendency, is nothing, if not inventive in its thinking.
In 2007, Toyota and Honda sat atop the auto industry in reputation and quality.
Astra has partnerships with several global auto manufacturers, including Toyota Motor and Honda Motor.
News Tuesday that Toyota has surpassed GM in worldwide auto sales could further embolden the push for U.S. companies to have greater access to the Korean auto market.
It is also important to note that the impact of a weak yen might not be as significant for Honda, as compared to other auto companies such as Toyota, since only a fraction of its vehicles are exported from Japan.
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It is supplies auto rectifiers to Ford, Toyota and others.
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Toyota Motor rose 5% after the auto maker raised its full-year earnings target late Tuesday, even as it posted a decline in net profit for the quarter ended in December.
Toyoda said Hogan was someone he trusted, having known him since they worked together more than a decade ago at NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, a California auto plant jointly run by Toyota and GM.
Hogan, an independent consultant and former GM group vice president, has been Toyoda's friend since they worked together more than a decade ago at NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, a California auto plant jointly run by Toyota and GM.
Toyota Motor Corp. is the leading Japanese auto brand in the U.S., with 12.6% of the market.
It allowed Toyoda to reshape Toyota for the new reality of the global auto market, pushing down responsibility to leaders in its various regions.
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In fact, both the national energy labs as well as the auto companies are laboring, with Toyota saying it wants to have a hydrogen-powered sedan ready next decade.
But credit will belong to a global constellation of digital entrepreneurs, and engineers at the likes of GM and Toyota, who compete to finally take the auto industry out of its 19th century roots.
In the next decade Toyota wants to expand its share of the global auto market by nearly half, to 15%.
Even Toyota Motor--which is seen as the auto-world's success story--has sunk 18.3%.
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Toyota's president said he is putting new auto plants on hold for three years and reshaping the automaker's structure to give more autonomy to regional divisions and foreign executives.
Ford, Toyota and Honda I think represent the next three biggest auto dealers.
Toyota produces almost half its vehicles in Japan while Japanese auto makers Honda and Nissan produce around one-third of their vehicles in the country.
Ford has traditionally lagged other major auto majors such as GM, Volkswagen and Toyota in China primarily because it was too slow to enter the Chinese market.
Ford has traditionally lagged behind global auto majors such as General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen AG, but the company is investing significantly in the region to increase capacity and expand the product line as it looks to cut its dependency on the North American market.
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Spear worked on the assembly line at Toyota to find out how the company continues to disrupt the auto industry.
Lexus, the premium car brand of Toyota, will unveil a new concept car at the Paris auto show.
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In the first half of 2012, Toyota overtook General Motors to regain its spot as the largest auto selling company in the world.
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