Word: toyopet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Toyota has its own reason for smiling. All this is a long way from the company's modest U.S. 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...