Jardine Cycle & Carriage operates in Singapore and Malaysia under the Cycle & Carriage banner and the group represents some of the world ’ s best-known motoring marques including Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Honda and Kia.

Toyota ’ s engines were not yet reliable and often failed the team.

He consulted with notable business leaders such as GE ’ s Jack Welch ; Procter & Gamble ’ s A. G. Lafley ; Intel ’ s Andy Grove ; Edward Jones ’ John Bachmann ; Shoichiro Toyoda, the honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corp .; and Masatoshi Ito, the honorary chairman of the Ito-Yokado Group, the second largest retailing organization in the world.

Toyota says this is a particularly timely breakthrough for plant-based eco-plastics because 2009 is the United Nations ’ International Year of Natural Fibres, which spotlights kenaf and ramie among others.

In May 2011 Toyota introduced the Prius α ( alpha ) in Japan, which is available in a five-seat, two-row model and a seven-seat, three-row model, the latter ’ s third row enabled by a space-saving lithium-ion drive battery in the center console.

Newton swapped her BMW X5 for a Toyota Prius after protesters bombarded the car with eggs at the gates of her daughters ’ school.

* Mathers has owned and operated a catering business and also has done commercial work for national and regional spots for advertisers such as PET Condensed Milk, Kellogg ’ s ( he and Tony Dow were the first non-athletes on a box of corn flakes ), General Electric, Purina, Kern International, Chevrolet, Toyota, General Mills, AOL, Coca Cola, Jim Beam and Biogen.

The clients and portfolio include America ’ s Cup, Army, Champions, England, Jaguar, London 2012 Olympics, Manchester United, Nike, Panasonic, Sony, Toyota, UEFA, and United Review.

BMW ’ s Valvetronic, the Nissan VVEL and Toyota Valvematic all belong to the “ oscillating cam ” class of mechanism.

No additional cars could be bought because Toyota didn ’ t have anything to sell.

The second generation RAV4 EV combines a Tesla-designed and produced battery and electric powertrain with Toyota ’ s SUV model.

The electric motor supplied by Tesla is an AC induction motor, a departure from Toyota ’ s practice of using synchronous permanent-magnet motors in their hybrid electric vehicles.

Jason Taumalolo and Kyle Feldt were named in the Toyota Cup ’ s Team of the Year, with Taumalolo selected as the RLPA ’ s NYC Player of the Year.

Twisted also featured Besser in a series of improvised commercials directed by O ’ Donnell for McDonalds, Toyota, and Ameritech along with stand-up comic Michelle Garb.

Crump was also well known for appearing in a series of acclaimed New Zealand television advertisements for Toyota ’ s four-wheel drive cars, which relied on his image as a stalwart " bushman ".

1998 Toyota Cavalier coupé ( Japanese export model with Amber ( color ) | amber rear turn signal s, right hand drive and flecked red / grey interior ) Toyota Cavalier sedan ( Japan )

The district attorney of Cologne, where Toyota F1 is based, led the investigation saying " It ’ s an immense amount of material.

Also in 2007, the new Subaru Justy was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and using the Daihatsu Sirion / Toyota Passo model it is positioned as an entry-level model in Subaru ’ s line-up.

Whether it be a matter of ethics or just strategic advantage organizations are internalizing sustainability principles .< ref name =" BGG ">< Berns, M., Townend, A., Khayat, Z., Balagopal, B., Reeves, M., Hopkins, M. & Kruschqwitz, N., 2009, ‘ The Business of Sustainability: Imperatives, Advantages, and Actions ’, The Boston Consulting Group Report 2009, Pp 4-32, http :// www. bcg. com / documents / file29480. pdf .</ ref > Examples of some of the world ’ s largest and most profitable corporations who are shifting to sustainable environmental resource management are: Ford, Toyota, BMW, Honda, Shell, Du Pont, Swiss Re, Hewlett-Packard, and Unilever.

It's larger clients include Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald ’ s, Toyota Motor and Wal-Mart.

The Commission only allows NYC cabs to be Crown Victoria ( Ford ) s and Camry ( Toyota ) s. It also oversees over 40, 000 other for-hire vehicles, including " black cars ", commuter vans and ambulettes.

Industry observers, however, speculated that the most important motivation was that a name change would help Nissan market stocks and bonds in the U. S. They also presumed substantial ego involvement, since the absence of the Nissan name in the U. S. surely rankled Nissan executives who had seen Toyota and Honda become household words.

On September 12, 2001, the Toyota Corolla purchased by Mihdhar was found in Dulles International Airport's hourly parking lot.

An account of Musashi's life, the Niten-ki 二天記, was published in Kumamoto in 1776, by Toyota Kagehide, based on the recollections of his grandfather Toyota Masataka, who was a second generation pupil of Musashi.

Four-wheel drive was also introduced to minivans in North America with the Toyota Van Wagon 4WD and the Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro.

Full-time all-wheel drive was introduced to North American minivans in 1990 with the Ford Aerostar's E-4WD option, followed in 1991 by the Toyota Previa All-Trac, and in 1992 on models made by Chrysler.

The Toyota Van and Dodge Caravan / Plymouth Voyager featured very different structural designs: the Dodge Caravan / Plymouth Voyager had a FF layout and unibody construction, while the Toyota Van Wagon featured a FMR layout and was built on a body-on-frame chassis.

Nawaf al-Hazmi's 1988 blue Toyota Corolla was found on the next day in Dulles International Airport's hourly parking lot.

In 2004 it was reported that Toyota was assisting Porsche with hybrid technology.

The Hyundai Elantra was Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle among 19 other compacts and small family cars, beating out the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius.

Hird's winning goal was the focus of a popular installment of the Toyota Memorable Moments advertising campaign, and the hug is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.

The first car to feature Automatic Shoulder belts as standard equipment was the 1981 Toyota Cressida, but the history of the belts go back further.

The Japanese manufacturers have also been frequent visitors to the US sports car scene ( Nissan and Toyota in particular during the heyday of IMSA ) and to the European scene, in particular Le Mans, where despite many years of trying by all the man Japanese marques the only victory to have been scored by a Japanese marque was by Mazda in 1991.

This drove up costs and drove away entrants and crowds, and by 1993 prototype racing was dead in Europe, with the Peugeot, Jaguar, Toyota and Mercedes-Benz teams all having withdrawn.

The GT1 class was for the purebred supercars and purpose-built race cars, such as the McLaren F1 GTR, Ferrari F40, Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, Toyota GT-One and Nissan R390 – while the first two were a derivatives of roadgoing sports cars, the German and Japanese contenders were pure-bred racing cars – virtually sports prototypes.

Bryant drove up to the service station and cut off a white Toyota Corolla that was attempting to exit onto the highway.

After he was killed in clan fighting in 1996, his body was carried to his funeral on a Toyota pickup.

This was his first drive in a sportscar since working with Toyota in 1992.

Villeneuve racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in early 2008. In a subsequent interview with Autosport magazine, Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock confirmed that Villeneuve's Formula One career was over It was announced on August 24, 2007 that Villeneuve would run the remaining seven races in the Craftsman Truck Series driving a Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing and undertake a full-time Sprint Cup schedule in 2008.

The Japanese Grand Prix was supposed to continue alternating between Fuji Speedway and Suzuka Circuit, owned by perennial rivals Toyota and Honda, respectively.

Toyota used a Power Split Transmission ( PST ) in the 1997 Prius, and all subsequent Toyota and Lexus hybrids sold internationally continue to use the system ( marketed under the Hybrid Synergy Drive name ).

In November 2009, Toyota's head of U. S. sales took calls from autoworkers, saying that though it has been a difficult decision to shut down the plant, " the economics of having a plant in California so far away from the supplier lines " in the Midwest " just doesn't make business sense " for Toyota to continue running the NUMMI plant.

Due to the upgrade in dimensions of the Crown, Toyota needed to continue manufacturing a vehicle with similar size dimensions to the first Crown, primarily to be used for taxi usage.

The Bluebird was originally developed to compete with the Corona, as the Corona was developed to continue offering a sedan used as a taxi as the Toyota Crown began to grow in size.

Toyota claimed that tens of thousands of orders would have been necessary for them to resume or continue production, and development time would have been a major obstacle.

Whether or not Toyota wanted to continue production, it was unlikely to be able to do so because the EV-95 battery was no longer available.

So as to continue to offer Mark II customers the option of purchasing a station wagon at Toyopet Store locations, Toyota introduced the Toyota Mark II Qualis which was identical to the Camry-based station wagon called the Camry Gracia.