JAPAN: New Toyota chief signals local market focus
Author: just-auto.com editorial team | 25 June 2009
Toyota needs to start over from "rock bottom" and will abandon for now its policy of offering a full product range world-wide to focus more on local market needs, new president and founding family member, Akio Toyoda, said at his first press conference in Tokyo today.
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