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Toyota Imagines an Advanced Future World with Archaic Automobiles
Being the world's largest and most successful manufacturer of hybrid vehicles with more than 4 million worldwide sales since the first Prius hit Japanese showrooms in 1997, Toyota has every reason to promote hybrid technology as the latest and greatest thing to ever come along for your car. In this commercial titled 'Advanced World', the Japanese automaker imagines a future world that has progressed in every field except automobiles, which are depicted as polluting and noisy hand-cranked cars from the beginning of the previous century.
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Toyota Reaches 6 Million Hybrid Milestone Since It Launched The Original Prius In 1997
Japanese giant Toyota said it has sold more than 6 million hybrid vehicles since it launched the first such vehicle in 1997. Cumulative global sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicles as of December 31, 2013 reached 6.072 million units, with the latest...
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Chevy Sets New Record In 2011 With 4.76 Million Sales, China Is Gm's Largest Market Overall
In 2011, General Motors reclaimed its crown as the world's largest vehicle manufacturer from Toyota, which was hit hard by the Japanese Tsunami and the Thailand floods, and as a result, dropped into third place behind the Volkswagen Group. Overall,...
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New Suzuki Kizashi Ecocharge Concept Previews Hybrid Version
Since Toyota launched the gasoline-electric hybrid Prius in 1997 (because let’s face it, Toyota was the one that made hybrids a household name), more and more automakers are following in the Japanese automaker’s footsteps. Oddly enough...
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Toyota To Ford: Beat This, We've Sold Over One Million Hybrids In The U.s.
Just the other day, Ford pompously announced that it sold its 100,000th hybrid SUV. Today -and we seriously doubt that this is a coincidence - Toyota announced that the total combined Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicle sales in the U.S. have topped the one...
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Toyota Worldwide Hybrid Sales Surpass 1 Million Mark
To be exact, as of May 31, 2007, Toyota has sold an amazing 1,047,000 hybrid car units worldwide. In all honestly, who’d believe back in 1997 when Toyota launched the first Prius in Japan, that ToMoCo would manage to pull it off selling over a...
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