Soon, Toyota buyers will be able to order any of the nine models Toyota makes in the U.S.--Avalon, Camry, Corolla, Matrix, Sienna, Solara, Sequoia, Tacoma and Tundra-- and have it delivered in two to three weeks.
The 1, 700km Winnipeg-Churchill line heads north from the Manitoba capital, easing through lake-studded woodland tundra towards the remote, sub-arctic northern region.
The first of these, known as the Younger Dryas, after a tundra-loving plant that thrived during it, occurred at the same time as the beginning of agriculture in northern Mesopotamia, in land now controlled by Turkey, Iraq and Syria.
For example, some 1, 000 barrels of crude oil, water and gas mixture poured onto the tundra after a 2-foot gash formed in a pipeline in November 2009.
Breakthroughs are clearly needed, though, if firms are to find oil economically in tricky places such as the Siberian tundra or the ultra-deep waters off Africa and Brazil.
Added to the general atmospheric warming in the region, the researchers also describe an amplification process whereby reduced snow cover on the surrounding tundra and less sea-ice in the Arctic Ocean push up temperatures still further.
They are entirely isolated, living in frozen tundra, perpetually enduring less-than-optimal weather patterns.
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In August Toyota Motor suspended production until November at a spanking-new Tundra factory in Texas, but Toyota is confident pickup sales will rebound eventually.
Toyota is launching a re-comprised Tundra.
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Toyota's 2014 Tundra pickup will come with a standard backup camera, and an optional blind-spot system that can warn a Tundra driver when a car is about to pass.
And Toyota promises it is done letting the Tundra get called a "seven-eighths" truck by Ford-centric cowboys and construction workers.
But the tundra was very dry in 2007 and fire-fueling winds kicked up the blaze.
Four years ago, Marion was the runner-up for a Toyota Tundra plant.
He helped develop a gas field in the tundra that brings gas into Barrow via a 12-mile pipeline.
It's putting its Toyota Tundra up against the Chevrolet Silverado, Ford F-150 and Dodge Ram in the 25-race series kicked off in February at Daytona International Speedway.
What my colleagues and I are discovering from our own work in Alaskan tundra is that this shift in vegetation cover has implications -- some good, some bad -- for the animals that depend on it for food and shelter.
Meanwhile, Ford's redesigned F-Series pickups are expected to compete strongly with the Tundra.
In mid-2006, a BP pipeline burst in Alaska, resulting in a 200, 000-gallon spill which covered at least two acres of tundra.
But for an also-ran brand in pickups, taking the wraps off the new Tundra in Chicago will be only the first mile on a challenging road for Toyota.
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Pickup will further enjoy a boost with redesigned versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra and a refreshed Toyota Tundra later this year, followed by a new version of the segment leading Ford F-150 sometime during 2014.
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If you go higher than that, there are other tipping points, especially the release of carbon in the tundra and the things frozen in the tundra region, and that tipping point means it becomes very nonlinear and all of a sudden--boom!
But since Toyota announced the factory in 2003, Tundra market share in the San Antonio area has climbed from 2.5% to 12%--and the factory hasn't even opened yet.
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