Word: toyota
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...Sony. Toyota. Honda. Mitsubishi. Nikon. Ricoh. Toshiba. There seems no escaping Japan in the U.S. these days. But just try to escape America in Japan, especially if you are young and yearn to be hip in Tokyo. America is an essential element of growing up urban in Japan...
...confusion, many products with Japanese names are actually made in America. According to The New York Times, nearly 40 percent of Honda, Toyota and Nissan cars are assembled inside the United States, in American factories, by American workers. Are the 4,850 American jobs at the $1.2 billion Nissan plant in Sparta, Tennessee, worth less than jobs of General Motors workers in Detroit...
These same quotas have, in turn, kept Japanese auto manufacturers from competing in the U.S. market with less-established manufacturers from other countries such as South Korea and Yugoslavia. Honda and Toyota, not just G.M., Chrysler and Ford, have thus been able to keep their prices artificially high. Where the money consumers have spent "protecting" these businesses might have gone, in the free market, is anyone's guess. In any case, it would have gone to other productive enterprises, or even into savings or investment...
...connected. After Speranza's death, things were eerily quiet until last week, when a 62-year-old Colombo captain named Nicholas (Nicky Black) Grancio became the highest-ranking rubout of all. Grancio, whom sources describe as a "peacemaker," was whacked while sitting in his Toyota Land Cruiser...
American buyers aren't so merciful. At the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show last week, Rene Pacheco, a contractor who owns three Toyota pickups because he believes their American counterparts aren't as reliable, dismissed Detroit's latest offerings. "Take this car here," he said, pointing to a moderately expensive U.S. model. "Look at the paint job. Americans are into details. If you're going to spend $25,000, I don't want something that looks like this. The Japanese have a better product." Similar reasoning led the Los Angeles transportation commission to authorize the purchase of 41 light railcars...