Word: honda
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...measure, Toyota is well on its way to becoming a Yankee Doodle lookalike. Japan's largest industrial corporation (1995 sales: $101 billion) already has more than 19,000 U.S. employees and holds a 6.9% share of the U.S. car and truck market. That puts it in fourth, ahead of Honda (4.8%) though still well behind Chrysler (16.6%). But it's coming on. With the expansion along I-64, Toyota plans to boost U.S. output by a third, from 900,000 passenger vehicles in 1995 to 1.2 million in 1998. When it does, 75% of the cars the company sells...
...swift U.S. buildup by Toyota and rivals like Honda has revitalized whole communities. A University of Kentucky study credits Toyota's Georgetown presence with creating 22,000 jobs in the state (the plant itself employs 6,500) and adding $1.5 billion to the state's economy during its eight years in operation. Soaring property-tax rolls have enabled Georgetown to build new police and fire stations and community-care facilities. In Princeton property values are taking...
...debut in 1957, when the first Toyopet Crowns--woefully underpowered tadpole-shaped vehicles--were unloaded from the freighter Toyota Maru in Long Beach, California. Yet even as Toyota improved its cars and gained market share, the company remained reluctant to build them on American soil. Not until 1985, when Honda and Nissan were already producing cars in the U.S., did Toyota decide to build the Georgetown plant. The company has since been at pains to avoid such stereotypes as those spoofed in the 1986 Michael Keaton comedy, Gung Ho, which depicted Japanese managers holding fire drill-like pep rallies...
...divided into two main groups. One consists of hundreds, if not thousands, of pages on the World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet, that are loaded with facts and figures about every conceivable car or truck. Want to know how much a dealer pays for that 1996 Honda Accord you've been eyeing? Or what kind of gasoline mileage it gets? Just log onto Edmund Publications http:www.enews.com/magazines/edmunds) which gives the invoice price of an LX sedan with standard features and antilock brakes as $17,531, in contrast to/ a manufacturer's suggested retail price...
...estimate of 300,000 wiped out as a result of the NAFTA treaty with Mexico and Canada seems plucked out of thin air. To the losers, though, it is a statistical abstraction to argue that the losses have been more than offset by job gains in export industries. Honda's success in Ohio does nothing to help Watsonville, California (pop. 33,798), where the unemployment rate has jumped to close to 20%. A number of vegetable-freezing plants there have shut down, and the owners of some have moved operations to Mexico...