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On-line Contest Offers Participants Three Ways to Win

June 15, 2011 - Torrance, Calif. - Pay off your credit card? Support your favorite charity? Take your grandparents skydiving? Toyota Financial Services ("TFS") wants to know what recent college grads would do with an extra $1,000 cash in their pocket. To find out, TFS announced the launch of its on-line college essay contest in which eligible participants are asked to write an essay (of 100 words or less) describing how they might use the money.

From June 16, 2011 through July 13, 2011, eligible participants are invited to submit their essays at…

North American vehicle production levels are expected to return to 100 percent in September, Toyota said today. Production is recovering earlier than originally anticipated following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

On average, current production has improved to more than 80 percent through August. Eight of the company's 12 North American-built models returned to 100 percent production on June 6.

"After September we will focus on making-up lost production as much as possible," said Steve St. Angelo, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America. "Our team members and suppliers here and in Japan have…

News of the natural disaster that struck Japan in March was devastating to say that least. It forced automakers across Japan to decrease production drastically and heavily damaged the plants of many key parts suppliers. The Automobile Manufacturer's Association indicated that auto production in Japan plummeted in April from 731,829 in 2010 to 292,001 in 2011. Japan lost a production total of 550,000 vehicles and another 350,000 overseas. These kind…

Not even production slowdowns from the horrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan have been able to contain the massive, growing popularity of the Toyota Prius.

In the United States Prius sales have topped one-million. This is the Japanese automaker's third milestone in the last six months that concerns the much loved hybrid vehicle. In October of 2010, worldwide Prius sales hit 2 million (of which European sales account for more than 200,000 units…