Driving ambition - Toyota faces uncertain market in China

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

TIANJIN, China -- When the first car rolled out of the Kentucky Toyota plant in 1988, Japan's No. 1 automaker was already selling 610,000 vehicles a year in North America, raising fears that it could overtake the U.S. Big Three.

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