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“Toyota Magical Piggies” by Seven-Year-Old Wins a “Best Finalist” World Award
PLANO, Texas (October 28, 2019) - “When pigs fly” typically means it will never happen. But in the creative mind of seven-year-old Sydney Bella Yian Cui from Mercer Island, Washington, it COULD happen to save the environment, and it DID happen when her “Toyota Magical Piggies” artwork received a “Best Finalist” award at the World Contest in Tokyo, Japan earlier this month.
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Jesse Colwell Secures POWRi Championship for Toyota
PLANO, Texas (October 25, 2019) – What a difference a year makes. This time last year, Jesse Colwell was one of more than 60 aspiring drivers from across the nation competing in the Keith Kunz Motorsports (KKM) Giveback Classic presented by TRD (Toyota Racing Development). Now, Colwell is officially a POWRi champion after the season-finale events at Oklahoma’s Creek County Speedway were cancelled.
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Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC) Issues its First Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) Medium-Term Note Transaction
PLANO, Texas (October 24, 2019) – Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC) has issued its first Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) medium-term note (MTN) transaction, demonstrating the company’s commitment to innovation, and advancing its reputation as an industry leader. The one-year USD-denominated issuance settled on October 22, 2019, and raised $1.55 billion from institutional investors. This represents the company’s first SOFR-linked MTN transaction in the USD market, and the first time a captive auto finance company has issued a floating-rate MTN based on SOFR. The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is scheduled to discontinue after 2021, and many companies are looking to SOFR as an alternative reference rate to price U.S. dollar loans and derivatives.
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Toyota to Offer Rides in SAE Level-4 Automated Vehicles on Public Roads in Japan Next Summer
TOKYO (October 24, 2019) – Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced today that its Platform 4 (P4) automated driving test vehicle will be available for public demonstration rides next summer in Tokyo. Offered from July to September 2020, the P4 will demonstrate Toyota’s “Chauffeur” SAE Level-4 capabilities in a specific “mobility as a service” (MaaS) driving environment.
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A Course in Winning: Toyota’s First-Ever Camry TRD and Avalon TRD Models Arrive as TRD U.S.A. Celebrates Four Decades of Motorsports Championships
NASCAR fans are very familiar with the TRD-developed Toyota Camrys that compete in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. They see them on the track, and in the winner’s circle, like when the NASCAR Camrys took the top three spots […]
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Toyota Drivers Victorious Across Multiple Series
PLANO, Texas (October 21, 2019) – Toyota drivers won in NASCAR, ARCA, Formula DRIFT, USAC and POWRi over the weekend to extend their championship runs, and Christian Eckes captured the ARCA Menards Series title with a victory on Friday.
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