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New Toyota even boxier looking than Scion xB
Dec 18, 2007
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LOL, got me.
Not a fake:
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A stitch ahead of the times:
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Toyota SE-06 Mechanical Sewing Machine Aisin-Toyota is a leader in industrial sewing, embroidery and knitting machines and is increasing their concentration on home machines. You may be familiar with their Aisin P.O.E.M. embroidery machine, which was also marketed by Singer as the Singer EU.
Of course, we all knew that Toyota started life as The Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (notice the address...Aichi Japan, same as their Final Assembly plant):
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Eiji Toyoda Born Sept. 12, 1913 near Nagoya
1933 His cousin Kiichiro founds company later renamed Toyota Motor Corp.
1955 Produces first model, the Crown, but U.S. sales are low
1966 New model, the Corolla, is a success
1967 Named Toyota president
1973 Oil crisis boosts sales of Toyota's fuel-efficient models
1994 Steps down from Toyota board People around the world drive Toyotas--and produce them too. A textile-factory boy is the industrial wizard who made it happen
Eiji Toyoda smiles as he recalls the early days: "When I went to Detroit in 1950, we were producing 40 cars a day. Ford was making 8,000 units, a
200-times difference. The gap was enormous." But not all that daunting to a young Japanese engineer.Check this out about Honda:
"Company founder Soichiro Honda was a clown who, after working at Art Shokai, developed his own design for piston rings in 1938 " -- Wikipedia
Detroit hasn't been laughing for a long time!
Out here, Toyota has a factory called Toyota Loom Co., only it makes electronic chips for Toyota's cars.
The rear passenger seats on my Camry feels better than my IKEA couch. I wonder if Toyota (...even better Lexus) is planning to go into home furnishings in the future. =)
I don't know about home furnishings, but Toyota does build homes:
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