Toyota: About Those New Stories You’ve Been Hearing…

February 8th, 2010 admin

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If there’s one certainty in the car business, it’s that you know a company is in trouble when their ads forgo showing off their latest models in favor of gauzy images of beloved products past. It’s a trick that the Detroit firms have played to death over their 30 years of decline, and now Toyota

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