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...Cool What a change from the Toyota sedans and Sony stereos that have long defined Japan Inc. Sleek as those products may be, there is something culturally anonymous about them. It's as if these brands - along with a certain animated, mouthless cat that was introduced in 1974 - were scrubbed clean of ethnic markings and sold instead as prototypes of a postnational world. The cultural distancing is understandable. Japan's wartime defeat equated nationalism with suffering. The occupying Americans discouraged indigenous martial arts like karate and kendo from Japanese schools, just as an Emperor whose name was used to justify...
...Still, the launch of two such good-looking cars is a milestone on the way to wider popularity. "It's all about consumer acceptance," says Scott Brownlee, a spokesman for Toyota and Lexus in Britain. "If you build something which is fantastic, does 1,000 miles to the gallon, but the consumer doesn't want it, you won't succeed." The eccentric, inelegant and downright unmarketable designs that have gone before may be giving way to a new breed of electric car that is attractive, stylish and as much an appeal to our ego as to our green conscience. Judging...
...shooting me for looking like an American.'' (He's actually Canadian.) Guards are also important: several gunmen protecting Andrew fired back when his truck was ambushed in the Bakhara market earlier this year, enabling him to make a quick getaway. Andrew rides around Mogadishu in an old Toyota Land Cruiser with goatskin seat covers, Armed Forces Radio booming from the speakers, but that doesn't provide much relaxation. ''It took me months to figure out whether Somalis traditionally drive on the right or the left,'' he says. (It's the right.) ''With no traffic cops, anything goes.'' Swimming...
...analyst for Deutsche Bank, agreed, saying, "It looks like [GM's] cost structure is pretty competitive." But, he said, "where they're at a disadvantage versus other mass-market automakers is in pricing." Buyers won't pay as much for a GM vehicle as they will for a Toyota or Honda. GM stock dipped immediately after the announcement before climbing back to around $10 by mid-afternoon...
...shutdown will affect more than 10% of Toyota's 43,000 employees in the U.S. Toyota is also scrambling to rebalance its manufacturing operations to accommodate its best sellers. The company said it will build hybrid Priuses at a plant now under construction in Blue Springs, Miss. The Blue Springs plant is scheduled to open in 2010. The Highlander crossovers that were supposed to be made in Mississippi will be made in Indiana instead, and all pickup trucks will be made exclusively in Texas, according to Toyota...