Word: toyota
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...continued to rise on both sides of the Pacific last week. Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz was strident. Said he: "We need to retaliate against Japan. They deserve it." One step suggested by a growing number of politicians: a surcharge on Japanese imports that could raise prices of everything from Toyota cars to Toshiba calculators...
...billion in 1984. Sales last year reached 7.9 million cars, vs. 5.7 million in 1982. The agreements limited Japanese imports to about 20% of the U.S. market. When the imported cars became scarce, prices rose. The cost of the Nissan Maxima in the U.S. went up 30.1%, the Toyota Cressida 35.1%. The restrictions may have saved 44,000 U.S. jobs, but, says the study, they cost U.S. consumers more than $1 billion a year in increased car prices. Detroit's carmakers were disgruntled by the White House proposal. Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca said that abandoning controls now, in the face...
...then: BANG! Dazzling Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer) splays onto the hood of Ed's Toyota, cries, "Get me out of here!" and leads him into the night. Once the movie wakes up, it never lets up, in pace or plot invention. Seems Diana / has smuggled past Customs six priceless emeralds "from the scepter of an ancient Persian king" and concealed them (we won't say where) for delivery to one of those hotshot sheiks who in the past decade have turned parts of L.A. into a Little Araby. As for ordinary Ed, he will risk death, betrayal and another 24 hours...
Mornings near sunrise, John Williams, a national park service ranger at the monument grounds, wheels his Toyota up out of the underpasses near the Kennedy Center. When he sees the spire, he feels better. The monument always says something a little different when it greets him. The Maryland marble of which it is constructed has a special quality that picks up the light of the hour and seems to subtly intensify it. "There it is," Williams says to himself, and then he studies the graceful shape to see what shades of gold or pink or gray are mixed...
Hyundai is nothing if not ambitious. Max Jamiesson, 51, a former Toyota official who is the new executive vice president of Hyundai Motor America, told participants at the convention of the National Automobile Dealers Assoc. in San Francisco that his goal is to sell 100,000 vehicles in the 1986 model year. That would be less than 1% of the total U.S. market of 10 million vehicles and 4% of all imports vs. about 18% for all Japanese makes. But it would be far more than the 288 cars that Toyota sold in America in 1958, its ) first full year...