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Milestone Achieved: Toyota Kentucky's 10 Million

26 years is a long time and nearly anything can happen in such an extended period of time. For a business, this is doubly so and growth can come unexpectedly and in a huge way. For the workers at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky plant, they recently hit a production milestone after 26 years, having just seen their 10 millionth vehicle roll off the production line. This vehicle was a white Camry Hybrid, a call-back…

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Toyota Gives Out Grants in the Name of Innovation

At Capitol Toyota, we enjoy providing readers with information regarding new Toyota vehicle upgrades and new technology. The Japanese automaker isn't always content with making high quality vehicles. Toyota wants to change the world and make it better for everyone.

Toyota recently awarded three innovative and forward thinking women with $150,000 in grants at the Women in the World Summit - this event attracts prominent figures like Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Street, Hillary Clinton and…

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Toyota Listens to Drivers with Updated Version of Tundra

When drivers talk, Toyota listens. When truck drivers tell Toyota that they wanted a more rugged off-road look, the designers at Toyota take notice. Do you want proof? The recently released 2014 Tundra, which will soon be available at Capitol Toyota in the greater Salem area is proof in its own.

"Tundra's new exterior design and all-new interior were inspired by customer feedback requesting a more chiseled exterior and refined interior with improved driver…

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Toyota Venza's South Tour with Andrew Zimmern

Do you love food and travelling? Then, like some of us at  Capitol Toyota, you probably heard about Andrew Zimmern, the host of Bizarre Foods. While he isn't filming in exotic locations across the globe, Zimmern is touring the American South in a new 2013 Toyota Venza, trying out some of the area's most tasty dishes in a series called Appetite for Life.

Going to New Orleans, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Tuscaloosa and many

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Toyota Invites You to be an FT-86 World Reporter

The Toyota FT-86 is almost here, and Toyota needs your help to spread the word! Our favorite Japanese automaker is asking drivers in the greater [Geo] area and beyond to capture a pic of the FT-86 and upload it to the "FT-86 World Report" website. The site then takes fan pictures and compiles them into one streaming montage, which showcases the new rear-wheel drive coupe prowling the streets.

How does Toyota expect us to take

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Toyota Inspires U.S. Hospitals to Exercise Better Management

What did Virginia Mason Medical Center CEO, Dr. Gary Kaplan, do when his facility started to lose money in 1998? He visited hospitals around the U.S... He talked with many of the smartest minds in the industry. And after two years... he decided there wasn't one institution in the entire medical system whose footsteps he felt were worth following. So, he turned to Japanese automaker, Toyota, for inspiration, instead.

Yes, three years after

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Toyota to Invest Half-Billion Dollars in New Safety Research Center

Toyota is planning to launch its new Collaborative Safety Research Center at its technical safety center in Ann Arbor, MI. The new Research Center will provide additional work for over 1,000 Toyota employees who work in Ann Arbor as well as a complex in York Township.

Senior Executive Administrator for External Affairs at Toyota Technical Center, Bruce Brownlee, says, "Our president made a commitment to Congress to take a leadership role in automotive safety

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Toyota - Ideas For Good

Toyota's new ad campaign "Ideas for Good" is an initiative opened to the public, accepting submissions through February 28, 2011. A panel of judges will then choose the best ideas based on what Toyota tech people can apply to make our world better.

"We're sharing a side of Toyota that many are not aware of and engaging the public in a way we've never done before," Bill Fay, group vice president of

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