(AP) - The old headquarter building of the Toyota Motor Corp. stands with a gray, worn out sign of the corporate logo in Toyota city, central Japan, Friday June 29, 2007. The old building is used as classrooms for its employees, including those for the Toyota Institute. ‘It’s more of a symbolic place,’ company spokesman Kensuke Ko says. ‘But it will always be here to stay. It’s where it all started.’ 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)

Continue reading at the originating website

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 1st, 2007 at 12:27 am and is filed under Toyota News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.