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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

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Having read all four episodes, you now know that 2004 was the final model year for the Diamante in North America, and that only 4,379 examples were sold here that year. The Diamante was largely forgotten by the early 2000s, but it was a legitimate competitor for the Lexus ES 300 for a couple of years a decade earlier.

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Total Sales of Toyota and Lexus Hybrids Top 1M Mark in US

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Total combined Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicle sales in the US have topped the one million mark, according to Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA. Overall, cumulative worldwide sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrids have exceeded 1.7 The second-generation Prius launched in the fall of 2003 as a 2004 model year.

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Toyota transport wins EPA SmartWay award

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million new Toyota and Lexus vehicles to dealerships every year. Since 2004, the 3,073 SmartWay partners across the US have saved an estimated $8.1 Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.’s s transportation team, Toyota Logistics Services (TLS), moves approximately 2.2 billion in fuel costs or 65 million barrels of oil.

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

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” The testing scandal comes at a time of otherwise stellar performance for Toyota, which makes the Camry sedan, Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models. The urgent warning Monday covers certain Corolla compact cars and Matrix hatchbacks from the 2003 and 2004 model years, as well as the RAV4 small SUV from 2004 and 2005.

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First driving behavior-based telematics automobile insurance developed for Toyota connected cars in Japan

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In 2004, the company launched a distance-based automobile insurance that utilized Toyota’s telematics technologies. The product is called either the Toyota “Tsunagaru” (Connected) Car Insurance Plan (eligible: Toyota dealers), or G-Link automobile insurance (eligible: Lexus dealers).

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Toyota’s greenwashing AI ‘eco-copilot’ is fake, but the prank makes a real point

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For example, in 2004 they posed as representatives of Dow Chemical and promised that the company would clean up after the Bhopal Disaster, leading to a temporary $2 billion drop in the company’s market cap. Much of this positioning came from previous CEO Akio Toyoda, who stepped down largely due to Toyota’s failure on EV strategy.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

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While Mitsubishi, Mini, and Lexus also had a majority of women customers, the difference was so slight that it could be attributed to even the slightest margin of error. According to S&P Global Mobility, Buick was the brand that had the highest percentage of female customers with a 55-percent share at the start of 2023.