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...corporate America and the captains of the auto industry specifically" for continuing to support the Reagan Administration's economic program. In an effort to create jobs for union members, he is leading a congressional lobbying effort for a bill that would force the two largest Japanese auto manufacturers, Toyota and Nissan, to build cars...
...stage of development for films. Francis Ford Coppola has finished shooting The Outsiders, and is currently making Rumble Fish. That Was Then, This Is Now has been optioned; Tex, starring Teen Idol Matt Dillon, has been released by Walt Disney Productions. The married Hinton, who owns a horse named Toyota, has no plans to write adult fiction. Says she: "I'd rather claim authorship of My Friend Flicka than Princess Daisy...
Your article on the Toyo Kogyo Co. [April 26] states that the Mazda GLC is the world's third bestselling model, behind the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. You have been misinformed. Ford's Escort is the bestselling car in the world. Estimates for 1981 show Ford Escort at 823,000, the VW Rabbit at 759,000 and the Toyota Corolla...
...Japanese have introduced the just-in-time approach to inventory control. This system, which was developed over a ten-year period by Toyota Motor Co., requires suppliers to deliver only enough components to build exactly the number of cars scheduled for production during a given day or week. The autos are then quickly shipped out to the market. The just-in-time system has spread throughout Japanese industry. Factories of YKK, the world's largest zipper manufacturer, have no warehouses at all. Goods are moved immediately from the production line to distributors...
Mazda's front-wheel-drive compact, known in the U.S. as the GLC (for Great Little Car), has become the world's third bestselling model after the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. Mazda's RX7, the only rotary engine vehicle that the company exports, is the second most popular foreign sports car in America...