(AP) - A new building of Toyota Technical Center stands in the compound of Toyota Motor Corp. headquarters in Toyota city, central Japan, Friday, June 29, 2007. Steadily, relentlessly, quietly. Toyota is closing in on dethroning General Motors, the longtime king of the world’s automakers. On Friday, Aug. 31, 2007, Toyota set a global sales target of 10.4 million vehicles for 2009 — a number that would put the Japanese company far ahead of the current industry record of 9.55 million vehicles that GM sold in 1978. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

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