Word: toyota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elementary school sports a columned red brick facade and gabled roof. The homes, built in a variety of styles, from Charleston single to Georgian town house, have porches reaching out to tree-lined sidewalks and narrower streets with slower traffic. It all invites suburbanites to get out of their Toyota Camrys and interact for a change...
...want to wait for the next recession in the U.S.? Consider buying Japanese auto stocks now. The economy there is bad but not getting worse. And Toyota, Honda and Nissan are well positioned to benefit from the next hot vehicle--the car-SUV hybrid. The bell ringer in that group is the Lexus RX300, which has seen sales explode 150% this year. It's built on a car frame, not a truck frame, yet sits above traffic, satisfying the No. 1 reason consumers give for buying an SUV. Swapping U.S. for Japanese car stocks isn't unpatriotic...
...Romano, star of Everybody Loves Raymond, plays Carnegie Hall Wednesday in the Toyota Comedy Festival...
Whoa. Just a decade ago, Nissan was synonymous with Japan Inc., the business goliath that was devouring America. The auto company's fuel-thrifty sedans and zippy 240Z sports car put the fear in Detroit long before the Toyota Camry or Honda Accord ever saw a drafting table. Nissan's success gave weight to the myth that Japanese companies were run by enlightened executives who worked in frictionless synchronicity with workers to produce superior cars. In his best-selling book The Reckoning, David Halberstam suggested that U.S. industry, namely the Ford Motor Co., would be consigned to a never-ending...
...Toyota recently introduced its first hybrid car, the Prius, in Japan. It runs on both gasoline combustion and an electric battery, and can attain about double the gas mileage of an ordinary auto. General Motors recently finished its first good electric car, the EV1, although it requires frequent recharging due to its limited range. DaimlerChrysler, taking advantage of research of both its German and American branches, leads the way in developing fuel cell engines--engines which use hydrogen gas as fuel and could produce little more than water as waste. These projects, although showing far more promise than ever before...