From March 2003, Holden no longer held the number one sales position in Australia, losing ground to Toyota.

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.

* Holden Apollo, an automobile manufactured by Toyota and sold by Holden in Australia from 1989 to 1997

Straight-6 engines are used in some models from BMW, Ford Australia, Chevrolet, GMC, Toyota, Suzuki and Volvo Cars.

It was reported on 31 March 2005 that Toyota would withdraw Daihatsu from the Australian market after sales fell heavily in 2005, in spite of the overall new-car market in Australia growing 7 %.

These disguised Commodores were sold as the Toyota Lexcen, named after Ben Lexcen, the designer of Australia II yacht which won the 1983 America's Cup.

Ford Australia marketed them as separate vehicles, providing a worthy rival to Japanese models like the Toyota Corolla ; the Meteor nameplate died in Australia when the KE sedan was launched in 1987, but survived in South Africa until 1995.

Fishermans Bend is a primarily industrial centre at the foot of the West Gate Bridge and contains major establishments for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Holden Australia, Hawker de Havilland, GKN Aerospace Engineering Services, the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Kraft Foods, Toyota Australia, port security and a campus of RMIT University.

It was also produced in Australia from 2000 until July 2005 when it was replaced in November 2006 by the Toyota Aurion.

As with most other expletives its continued use has reduced its shock value and offensiveness, to the extent the Toyota car company in Australia and New Zealand ran a popular series of advertisements where " Bugger!

St Leonards contains one of Sydney's suburban skyscraper clusters, with major offices for many large companies including Toyota Financial Services, IBM, Lenovo, Oporto Chicken & Burgers, Manchester Unity, 3 Mobile Australia, Savvytel, Leighton Holdings, Macquarie Media Group and Channel 31 TV Studio.

Just outside of Altona is the Toyota Australia Altona Plant.

The Corolla liftback ( TE72 ) of Toyota Australia was badged as simply the T-18.

* United Australian Automobile Industries ( UAAI ) — A similar joint venture in Australia between Toyota and GM-Holden from 1989 to 1996.

As a result, this engine has been discontinued on some Toyota models, including that of the Corolla T-Sport ( Europe ), Corolla Sportivo ( Australia ), Celica, Corolla XRS, Toyota Matrix XRS, and the Pontiac Vibe GT, all of which had the 2ZZ-GE engine fitted.

Toyota Australia manufactured sedans and wagons using 1. 9 L Holden Starfire engines, badged in Toyota engine terminology as the 1X, coupled with a 4 speed or optional 5 speed Borg-Warner 505.

Toyota Australia also imported 4 door sedans and 5 door liftbacks fitted with a 2. 0 litre 18R engine for the upmarket range.

The longest running Corona T140 series appeared as a rear wheel drive sedan, coupé or wagon which began production in Jan 1982 and continued manufacture by Toyota Australia until 1987, by which time the T150 series had already been released.

1983 – 1985 Toyota Corona ( ST141 ) S wagon ( Australia )

Toyota Australia introduced a facelift in 1985.

The Corona was eventually dropped in Australia in favor of the larger Camry, but in New Zealand, Toyota continued to offer versions of the Corona, assembled locally at Toyota's plant in Thames, New Zealand.

Through consultation with Toyota, Porsche began widely sharing parts among models and slashed costs.

Before the 2001 season began there was already question if Las Vegas could support a professional team due to past failed attempts with: Las Vegas Americans ( Soccer 1984-85 ), Las Vegas Dustdevils ( Soccer-CISL-1994-1995 ), Las Vegas Posse ( Football-CFL-1994 ) Las Vegas Quicksilvers ( Soccer-NASL-1976-1978 ), Las Vegas Seagulls ( Soccer-ASL-1979 ), Las Vegas Sting ( Football-Arena Football League-1994-1995 ) and Las Vegas Thunder ( IHL-1993-1999 ) The Outlaws were sponsored by Cox Communications, New York-New York Hotel & Casino, Station Casinos, PacifiCare Health Systems and Findlay Toyota.

The city's growth began in the mid-1980s, when Toyota built Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the first wholly owned United States plant, in a recently annexed part of the city.

* 1953-Regular production of the " Toyota Jeep BJ " began at Toyota Honsya Plant ( Rolling chassis assembly ), and body assembly and painting was done at Arakawa Bankin Kogyo KK, later known as ARACO ( now an affiliate of Toyota Auto Body Co .).

Beginning in 2008, Toyota began offering different trim levels in the United States and Canada.

Under an unsuccessful model sharing arrangement as part of the Hawke Labor government reforms in 1989, Toyota began badge engineering versions of the VN Commodore.

Beginning in September 2011, Toyota USA began using the following names to differentiate the original Prius from some newer members of the Prius family: the standard Prius became the Prius Liftback, the Prius v ( known as the Prius α in Japan, and Prius + in Europe ), the Prius Plug-in Hybrid, and the Prius c ( called Toyota Aqua in Japan ).

Toyota debuted the new Prius ( 2010 US model year ) at the January 2009 North American International Auto Show, and sales began in Japan on May 18, 2009.

In turn, Toyota also stopped using the prefix Celica and began just calling the car Supra.

In April 1978 Toyota began production of the Mark I Supra in Japan, as the Toyota Celica XX, and sold alongside the Celica at Japanese dealership sales channels called Toyota Corolla Store.

In 1984, GM began marketing captive imports — rebadging cars from Toyota, Suzuki and Isuzu under the Chevrolet nameplate — introducing the Spectrum in 1984 ( a rebadged Isuzu I-Mark ), resurrecting the Nova nameplate for a rebadged Toyota Sprinter hatchback ) ( 1984 ), and marketing the Sprint ( 1985 ), itself a rebadged Suzuki Cultus.

The shootout began shortly after midnight Sunday morning when CHP officers saw his white Toyota truck speeding and weaving through traffic on westbound Interstate Highway 580 near the Grand Avenue exit.

In 2004, BBC's motoring show Top Gear began a historic racing series with two Espaces, a Toyota Previa, a Toyota MasterAce, a Mitsubishi Space Wagon and a Nissan Serena.

The MR2's life began in 1976 when Toyota launched a design project with the goal of producing a car which would be enjoyable to drive, yet still provide good fuel economy.

After two aborted starts ( Olivier Panis stalled his Toyota and Trulli's Renault leaked coolant onto the track ) the parade lap began ; Panis stalled again and started the race from the pits.

Production of the third generation began on January 24, 2005, with an equivalent Toyota Aristo not released as Toyota had introduced the Lexus channel to Japan and sought to align all world markets using Lexus as their luxury brand worldwide.

Models from local manufacturers are usually based on Japanese designs from Suzuki, Daihatsu and Toyota.

At Toyota, it is usually a local improvement within a workstation or local area and involves a small group in improving their own work environment and productivity.

Toyota became a Core City in 1998, with increased local autonomy.

In Indonesia, it was used by local taxi companies before being replaced by the Toyota Soluna and the Toyota Vios.

Due to good results for Toyota Finland in local events, Kankkunen was signed by the Toyota Team Europe, Toyota's factory WRC team headed by Ove Andersson.

As suggested by the presence of a local museum and a summer festival, Toyota is renowned for its firefly population, which makes an appearance for a short time during the month of June.

* 6 at Toyota Park, to include local derbies with the St George Illawarra Dragons and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs,

In Japan, where foreign car manufacturers have traditionally struggled to compete in the local market, even rebadging of U. S. models like the Chevrolet Cavalier as a Toyota have failed to improve sales.

Many local manufacturers are moving to build modern-looking jeepneys such as Hummer lookalikes and oversized Toyota van-style passenger jeepneys with Toyota headlights, hoods and bumpers.

The usual pronunciation of local residents stresses the second syllable like all ( Kuh-RAH-Luh, / kəˈrɑːlə /), however many outsiders pronounce Corolla the same as they pronounce the name of the car, the Toyota Corolla, where the second syllable sounds like roe ( Kuh-ROE-Luh, / kəˈroʊlə /).

As a replacement for the JE Camira, JK versions of the Apollo began sales in August 1989 — a collaboration with Toyota Australia, which also produced the car as the Toyota Camry ( SV21 / SV22 ) for local consumption.

Tundra owners will be notified beginning in late-December 2007 and are requested to contact their local Toyota dealer for inspection.

Day has also appeared regularly in local television commercials for a Toyota dealership in the Atlanta area.

With much lobbying by local business groups such as Toyota, especially for 24 hour cargo flights, construction started August 2000, with a budget of JPY ¥ 768 billion (€ 5. 5 billion, US $ 7. 3 billion ), but through efficient management nearly ¥ 100 billion was saved.

One component of the plan was the sharing of models by local manufacturers, for example, Holden shared models with Toyota, and Ford shared models with Nissan.

Celebrity contestants range from Hollywood's " A-list " elite, budding young stars and starlets, professional sports figures, local Southern California television and radio personalities and selected Toyota dealers.

* Tom Rudnai is general manager of a local Toyota dealership