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Toyota Overview
The Toyota Story
Toyota offers a full line of products for just about every need and lifestyle. The Japanese company started out in 1933 as the automobile department of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd. In 1937 the Toyota Motor Co. was founded, and by 1947 more than 100,000 vehicles had been produced. The first Toyota arrived in the U.S. in 1957. Today, more than half of the Toyotas sold in America are produced on U.S. soil. The popularity of Toyota products in the U.S. is easy to quantify — in 2007 the company surpassed General Motors as the world’s largest automaker. Toyota markets cars to more than 170 countries and regions through its overseas network.
Botswana is Toyota country
DESMOND LESETEDI
Correspondent
In southern Africa, Toyota rules. It is easily identifiable from any angle and distance. In fact one can confidently say that anyone alive in Botswana who has ever been in a vehicle it must have been a Toyota. They are as popular as Radio Botswana (RB)1.
Anyone who claims to have never listened to RB1 either by choice or default is, well, very untruthful to put it mildly. It has been said before and I will say it again - Botswana is Toyota country. Of the next 10 vehicles that will pass by any road you are currently traversing, it is impossible that a Toyota of any kind would not be among them. And that is a dare, provided you are in Botswana.So when you are a manufacturer of anything and your goods are more popular than yourself, a firm favourite of war lords, taxi operators and the Botswana government, then you know you are on point. But therein lays the catch, the fly in the ointment of an otherwise fine brew.
Well, Toyota has just that very annoying mosquito and it is in the form of their design language. Of late Toyotas seem bland at best and staid with seemingly no inspired outputs within their ranks whatsoever. Yes, they are selling units by the droves, but so
The Toyota Story
Toyota offers a full line of products for just about every need and lifestyle. The Japanese company started out in 1933 as the automobile department of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd. In 1937 the Toyota Motor Co. was founded, and by 1947 more than 100,000 vehicles had been produced. The first Toyota arrived in the U.S. in 1957. Today, more than half of the Toyotas sold in America are produced on U.S. soil. The popularity of Toyota products in the U.S. is easy to quantify — in 2007 the company surpassed General Motors as the world’s largest automaker. Toyota markets cars to more than 170 countries and regions through its overseas network.
Botswana is Toyota country
DESMOND LESETEDI
Correspondent
In southern Africa, Toyota rules. It is easily identifiable from any angle and distance. In fact one can confidently say that anyone alive in Botswana who has ever been in a vehicle it must have been a Toyota. They are as popular as Radio Botswana (RB)1.
Anyone who claims to have never listened to RB1 either by choice or default is, well, very untruthful to put it mildly. It has been said before and I will say it again - Botswana is Toyota country. Of the next 10 vehicles that will pass by any road you are currently traversing, it is impossible that a Toyota of any kind would not be among them. And that is a dare, provided you are in Botswana.So when you are a manufacturer of anything and your goods are more popular than yourself, a firm favourite of war lords, taxi operators and the Botswana government, then you know you are on point. But therein lays the catch, the fly in the ointment of an otherwise fine brew.
Well, Toyota has just that very annoying mosquito and it is in the form of their design language. Of late Toyotas seem bland at best and staid with seemingly no inspired outputs within their ranks whatsoever. Yes, they are selling units by the droves, but so
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