Word: toyota
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...company is aiming the G24 at a less depressed segment of the car market: relatively affluent buyers who have a taste for speed and dash and might be customers for GM's Camaro or Firebird, or Toyota's Celica. In Motor Trend's tests, the G24 hit 60 m.p.h. in 8.22 sec., close to the industry's performance leader, Ford's 302 HO Mustang...
...eyes of some, Japanese automakers will stop at nothing in their efforts to win a larger share of the U.S. market. So when Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., donated 25 trucks to the County of Los Angeles as the first step in a nationwide program of gifts to nonprofit organizations to mark the company's 25th year, it provoked some unusual reactions. While no one wanted to appear to be giving aid and comfort to the archenemy of U.S. automakers by thanking the Japanese profusely, no one wanted to be accused of turning down 25 free trucks for the county...
...Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn called the gift "generous," but took pains to add, "In no way does this mean that the agonies and frustrations of unemployed American autoworkers have gone away." A local labor union official complained that Toyota's gift "is another way that foreign companies, with their propaganda, are influencing the American people." He observed, however, that creative charity of this kind was "something the American industry neglected...
...part, Toyota noted that the vehicles were donated in the same spirit in which the company made cash donations of at least $2 million to a variety of organizations during the past five years, including $1 million to the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1978. A Toyota spokesman, who estimated the value of the trucks at $280,000, commented ingenuously, "I think we generate a lot of community good will...
...Nets' team mascot, gave her an oaf-handed shake that she would probably like to forget. Navratilova could afford a forgiving smile though: last week she erased any doubts (held by Chris Evert Lloyd) about who is the top-ranked player in women's tennis. Winning the Toyota championship in New Jersey, Navratilova defeated Lloyd 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, for the $75,000 purse, season earnings of $1,461,055 and a record for the year of 90 wins in 93 singles matches. "She's No. 1, I concede," said Lloyd. "But not next year...