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  CNN.com - Toyota unveils car that parks itself - Sep. 1, 2003
Toyota President Fujio Cho sat in the driver's seat at a demonstration laid on for the press, surprising reporters by holding his hands up as the car quickly parked itself.
Toyota aims to sell 36,000 units at home, 35,000-36,000 in the United States and 4,000-5,000 in rest of the world next year, he said.
Toyota has set a goal of producing 300,000 of the eco-friendly hybrid vehicles a year by 2005 or 2006.
www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/ptech/09/01/toyota.prius.reut/index.html   (356 words)

  
  Toyota set to overtake GM in 2007 - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The latest figure, announced by Toyota in a release, marks a 4% increase over the 9.04 million vehicles the company expects to produce this year and easily clears the 9.2 million vehicles GM is estimated to have produced this year.
Toyota has been plagued with a rising number of recalls as it standardizes parts to cut costs and develops and sells more vehicles at a faster pace.
Last month, Toyota bought a 5.9% stake in Isuzu Motors, well-known for its diesel technology that Toyota is eager to gain — half a year after GM sold its entire 7.9% stake in Isuzu.
www.usatoday.com /money/autos/2006-12-22-toyota-gm_x.htm   (809 words)

  
 Toyota
Toyota believes in localizing its operations to provide customers with the products they need where they need them; this philosophy builds mutually beneficial long-term relationships with local suppliers and helps the company fulfil its commitments to local labour.
In every community in which the company operates, Toyota strives to be a responsible corporate citizen; close relationships with people and organizations in the local community are essential contributors to mutual prosperity.
Across the world, Toyota participates enthusiastically in community activities ranging from the sponsorship of educational and cultural programmes to international exchange and research.
www.toyotaoman.com /about_toyota_history.shtml   (417 words)

  
 Toyota Motor Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toyota is Japan's biggest car company and the second largest in the world after General Motors.
Toyota (トヨタ) is considered luckier than Toyoda (豊田) in Japan, where eight is regarded as a lucky number, and eight is the number of strokes it takes to write Toyota in Katakana.
The brand was introduced with two models: the ES 250, based on Toyota Camry, and the LS 400, which was released simultaneously as the Toyota Celsior in Japan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toyota   (1423 words)

  
 rockefeller.senate.gov :: Toyota Motor Corporation
The Toyota executives took Rockefeller for a test drive in the company’s new Prius hybrid car, which runs on both electricity and gasoline, dramatically cutting pollution and boosting fuel mileage.
Toyota Motors Manufacturing, West Virginia reached a construction milestone at the engine factory, and held a traditional Japanese ceremony to celebrate the raising of the first steel beam.
Toyota Motors Manufacturing, West Virginia, opened the application process for 250 jobs at the Buffalo engine factory, asking potential applicants to call a toll-free number to apply formally.
rockefeller.senate.gov /Issues/toyota.htm   (1650 words)

  
 Toyota   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Toyota Matrix "Cell Splitting" was completed in August, 2004 for Saatchi & Saatchi, Toronto.
Toyota Matrix was a spot just recently completed in under 1 month for both cinema and television broadcast.
The concept was to show an animated commercial in which Toyota's new car accelerates to such high speeds that the air resistance 'peels' off the animation thus revealing the live-action vehicle underneath.
www.richardrosenman.com /toyota.htm   (988 words)

  
 Toyota Cars | All pricing information available at CarsDirect.com
Toyota is a Japanese multinational corporation created in 1937 that manufactures automobiles, trucks and buses.
Toyota has become one of the top automobile sellers by offering a wide variety of cars and trucks with sterling reliability and good styling.
Currently, Toyota rebates average about $2,500 per vehicle, which is still fairly low compared to the domestics.
www.carsdirect.com /toyota   (319 words)

  
 Toyota News
A disappointing end to their Turkish GP weekend saw Toyota and Honda narrowly miss out on finishing in the points.
TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp posted a bigger-than-expected 28% drop in quarterly net profit due to a stronger yen and sliding US sales, and forecast its first annual profit decline in seve...
Toyota Motor Corp., the world's second-biggest automaker by annual vehicle sales, is raising its prices on some U.S. models later this month amid increased w...
www.wn.com /toyota   (513 words)

  
 Toyota - Research All Models and Prices - MSN Autos
Toyota started out in 1933 as the automobile department of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd., in Japan.
In 1937 the Toyota Motor Company was founded, and by 1947 over 100,000 vehicles had been produced.
Toyota markets cars worldwide through its overseas network of more than 160 importers/distributors and numerous dealers.
autos.msn.com /browse/Toyota.aspx   (82 words)

  
 Toyota on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Une usine Toyota à Toyota City Les premiers constructeurs automobiles japonais Toyota, Honda et Nissan, ont tous trois for.
Le président de Toyota Motors Fujio Cho pose devant un prototype en octobre 2003 Le groupe japonais Toyota est arrivé en t.
Chaîne de montage Toyota au Japon Le premier constructeur automobile japonais Toyota Motor va augmenter de 20% ses capacit.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Toyota.asp   (483 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Engines > Toyota Motor Corporation
The Toyota Land Cruiser, which was introduced in 1951, was a breakthrough in four-wheel-drive technology but the Toyota Crown (1955) and the smaller Toyota Corona (1957) were the models which re-established the company.
Toyota has always been cautious in its approach to racing, preferring to leave competition to specialist companies and to local Toyota dealer networks.
Early attempts to lure Toyota into F1, notably by TOM'S in 1992, failed although Toyota was rumored to be keeping a very close eye on Yamaha's F1 program in the late 1990s.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/eng-toyot.html   (881 words)

  
 pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
However, Toyota's sporting influence has spread much further afield as it has built an impressive participation catalogue, so it was only natural that the company should finally decide to participate in the most prestigious of all motorsport events, the Formula One World Championship.
Toyota's motorsport heritage has demonstrated that with each new level of competition, it is always willing to take on a new challenge, and consequently much of 2001 was spent preparing for the team's F1 debut in 2002.
Ahead of the 2005 season, the bosses at Toyota HQ were demanding a podium at the very least, and considering the Japanese team's budget, this wasn't a lot to ask for.
www.pitpass.com /src/teams/toyota.php   (1920 words)

  
 Posts from the Toyota Category at AutoblogGreen
Toyota is investing in environmental science education with a $400,000 gift to the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Toyota announced across-the-board price increases to 2008 and 2009 Toyota and Lexus models today (Scion were "adjusted" back in April), and all Toyota models included in the list are up between $100 (the Tundra) and $500 (the Highlander hybrid).
Ford, Toyota and Bosch will all be on hand displaying their wares and discussing what they are working on and how to get better mileage with the cars you have now.
www.autobloggreen.com /category/toyota   (3324 words)

  
 TOYOTA.CO.JP -Toyota Partner Robot-
Toyota developed artificial lips that move with the same finesse as human lips, which, together with robots` hands, enables the robots to play trumpets like humans do.
Through the expanded development of the driving control technologies for automobiles, Toyota came up with the new stabilizing technologies for robots.
A small, light-weight and low-cost high-precision-sensors, developed based upon automotive sensor technology, are used as an attitude sensor that detects a tilt of a robot.
www.toyota.co.jp /en/special/robot   (249 words)

  
 NASCAR.COM - Ford contingent skeptical of Toyota's Cup chances - Jan 23, 2006
NASCAR and Toyota officially announced their partnership in the 2007 Cup Series, giving the circuit four manufacturers for the first time in four seasons.
Toyota has competed in the Craftsman Truck Series since 2003, and its Tundra came within 73 points of winning the title in 2005.
Toyota always has heavily supported the teams financially and provided the same engineering help, and that will change in 2007.
www.nascar.com /2006/news/headlines/cup/01/23/ford.toyota.reax/index.html   (610 words)

  
 Autoblog
Within the span of a couple months, the new "game-changing" Tundra was launched, Toyota then placed cash on the hood of the new truck, the guys and girls over at Nissan canceled their HD version of the Titan, and now more cash is needed to move Tundras.
Toyota is a little confused as to how its new full-size Tundra pickup only achieved a score of four stars in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's test for frontal crash performance.
Toyota claims, however, that the NHTSA hasn't tested the Double Cab yet and therefore its four-star result should be immediately removed from the organization's results website, safecar.gov.
www.autoblog.com /category/toyota   (3960 words)

  
 IndustryWeek : Learning From Toyota -- Again
These companies' leaders must revive their strategies to mimic Toyota's in order to compete, which means reversing the popular notion that lean and other TPS-derived concepts are tools to be used selectively to achieve departmental milestones.
Toyota likes to say that TPS is at the heart of everything that it does as an enterprise, says Matheson.
Toyota recognizes that fulfilling the enterprise potential of TPS requires a substantial cultural shift toward collaboration and continuous improvement, both internally and externally.
www.industryweek.com /ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=11301   (2263 words)

  
 Toyota Cars | All New 2009 2008 Toyota Car Models at Automotive.com
The Toyota Motor Corporation has a half-owned subsidiary company, Daihatsu, and is both a part of the Toyota Group, of which Lexus and Scion auto manufacturers are also a part.
Toyota was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spin off from his father's textile company.
Toyota is primarily known for its vehicles, it also creates robots and still makes looms as the original company did.
www.automotive.com /new-cars/01/toyota/index.html   (562 words)

  
 Phase-Out Credit for Toyota and Lexus Hybrids Continues With Reporting of Second Quarter Sales
Toyota sold 70,641 qualifying vehicles to retail dealers in the quarter ending June 30, 2007.
This brings the cumulative sales of qualified Toyota hybrid vehicles sold from the period of Jan. 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007, to 344,083.
06 and 07 Toyota Highlander  2WD and 4WD
www.irs.gov /newsroom/article/0,,id=172858,00.html   (238 words)

  
 MySA.com: Toyota Weblog   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Toyota is in the midst of a little pricing mess on its new Tundra.
Toyota is continuing its pace to surpass General Motors Corp. as the world's largest automaker.
Toyota reported that worldwide output was up 0.9 percent in February, marking the 28th straight month with a production increase.
blogs.mysanantonio.com /weblogs/toyota   (627 words)

  
 Responsible Shopper Profile: Toyota   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Toyota's greener-than-the-rest image was all but destroyed in 2005 by its role in a lawsuit to block stricter greenhouse gas regulations in California.
In early 2005, Nissan, Honda and Toyota were among top auto makers initiating a lawsuit to block California laws aimed at cutting 30 percent of the state's greenhouse gases from new automobiles by 2016.
Toyota was ordered to spend $20 million to re-design 3,000 public diesel fleet vehicles to make them run cleaner.
www.coopamerica.org /programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=298   (1985 words)

  
 Toyota Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As of March 2006, Toyota had revenues of over $179 billion and employed more than 280,000 people worldwide.  Toyota is headquartered in Aichi, Japan.  The Chairman of Toyota is Fujio Cho.
Toyota plants in North America targeted to reduce energy consumption (per unit of production) by 15 percent from 2000 levels by 2006, actual reduction was 30%.
Toyota plants in North America target to reduce energy consumption (per unit of production) by 27 percent from 2002 levels by 2011.
www.pewclimate.org /companies_leading_the_way_belc/company_profiles/toyota/index.cfm   (199 words)

  
 Toyota Industrial Equipment - Toyota Materials Handling Forklifts and Lift Trucks, US
Toyota Industrial Equipment - Toyota Materials Handling Forklifts and Lift Trucks, US Tie Dealers
Toyota is as committed to environmental responsibility as we are to manufacturing the world’s most advanced lift trucks.
Trace the history from Toyota’s lift truck debut in the U.S. to becoming Earth’s #1 lift truck.
www.toyotaforklift.com   (135 words)

  
 Toyota Cars | Research All New Toyota Car Models at Automobile Magazine
With this redesign, Toyota has has created a truck that is far superior to the one it replaces, even if it's not so compact anymore.
Toyota began to expand into other automobile segments in the '90s.
In 1989, Toyota launched its Lexus division, arguable the best-selling luxury brand in the U.S. In 1997, the Camry became the number one best-selling car in the U.S., a title it continues to hold.
www.automobilemag.com /new_cars/01/toyota/index.html   (1160 words)

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