NEW YORK - Toyota gets all the love for ushering in the hybrid era with the Prius, but Porsche is here to say its founder had a hybrid on the road almost a century before those guys in Japan.

纽约—丰田因为推出了PRIUS(普瑞斯)，进入混合动力车时代，而获得了众人的热爱。现在保时捷一下子跳出来，宣称公司的创始人很早就在路上开混合动力车了，比那帮日本鸟人早了一百多年。

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Half a century ago, Japan was a poor country: today Sony and Toyota are among thebest-known and mightiest companies on the planet.

半个世纪以前，日本是个穷困的国家； 今天索尼和丰田是这个星球上最著名和最强大的公司之一。

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Toyota has got out of the crisis by lean theory in the 20th century, and has realized the myth of the automobile empire.

而精益思想在20世纪曾经帮助丰田摆脱危机，并且实现了汽车帝国的神话。

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In 1994, Mr Uchiyamada joined Toyota's project to develop an eco-friendly car for the 21st century.

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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.

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Toyota, Honda and Nissan have been building cars in the United States for a quarter-century.

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