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Toyota (November 2006, Week Vol. 0)

Toyota Testing dates and News on the TF107.
Nov-28-2006
Today Winter Testing in preperation for the 2007 F1 Season began. Red Bull,Super Aguri,Honda,Renault,Mclaren,Ferrari,Toro Rosso and BMW-Sauber were all in action. Toyota today announced that they will start a Scheduled 3 day test tommorow.
No Satisfaction at Toyota
Nov-30-2006

Deep inside Toyota's car factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, is the paint shop, where naked steel car bodies arrive to receive layers of coatings and colors before returning to the assembly line to have their interiors and engines installed.

Thousands of little changes - Article on Toyota Improvement Process
Nov-22-2006

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Media accounts often report that a typical Toyota assembly line in the United States makes thousands of operational changes in the course of a single year. That number is not just large, it's arresting, it's mind-boggling. How much have you changed your work routine in the past decade? Toyota's line employees change the way they work dozens of times a year.

Now that's something to aspire to within software teams.

Toyota's Young Drivers at the F3 Macau Grand Prix
Nov-18-2006
Last week Toyota announced that 3 of it's young Japanese Protoges would test for Panasonic Toyota Racing. This weekend All three of them are in action at the prestigious Macau F3 GP.
Toyota's truck plant takes aim at Big 3's strong suit
Nov-17-2006
HOUSTON -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s is set to begin building its revamped, full-size Tundra pickup today at a 2.2 million-square-foot plant in San Antonio, a move aimed at grabbing a larger share of a lucrative ...
DM&E trail hits Toyota stopped on tracks
Nov-14-2006
A California woman was struck by a train Sunday while driving her Toyota 4-Runner in Black Hawk but escaped without injury.
Ralf: Toyota need to improve reliability
Nov-08-2006
Toyota Driver Ralf Schumacher has warned the Toyota team that if they do not produce a reliable car for the 2007 season then they will endure another dissapointing season like the 2006 season.
Jarno talks to Gazzetta dello Sport
Nov-08-2006
Toyota's Jarno Trulli talks to the Italian Sport news paper 'Gazzetta dello Sport' about Ferrari and his decision to leave Renault for Toyota in late 2004.
Toyota employees spruce up Tree Hill
Nov-08-2006
Southeast Toyota Distributors celebrated National Public Lands Day on Oct. 21 by sprucing up Arlington's Tree Hill Nature Center at 7512 Lone Star Road.
The Southern Edge: Isolation coming to end
Nov-05-2006
On Aug. 18, 1813, the bloodiest battle in Texas history unfolded in a grove of live oaks about 20 miles south of San Antonio, near where the new Toyota plant sits today.
Kamui Kobayashi for Toyota?
Nov-04-2006
It is understood that Formula 3 Euroseries Rookie of the Year Kamui Kobayashi of Japan will test a Toyota F1 car in the very near future.
Blanco asks Toyota to build
Nov-02-2006
BATON ROUGE - Gov. Kathleen Blanco and her top economic development advisers met with top Toyota Motors executives Wednesday to pitch the state's 1,440-acre Richland Parish mega site in northeast Louisiana for ...