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...Starbucks was accused of an affront to Chinese culture in 2007 over a coffee shop inside the fabled Forbidden City....
...Mr Farley spent the first part of his career at Toyota, including Lexus, before joining Ford in 2007....
...In 2007, he joined Ford after being recruited by then-chief executive Alan Mulally....
...That was like putting a Ferrari engine into a Lexus.”...
...It was revealed that during 2007-2011, Tate received £350,000 most years from BP, less than 0.5 per cent of its annual budget. The figures tell a similar story at other big cultural institutions....
...The four-strong backing band, including Heaton’s co-songwriter Jonny Lexus on guitar, cranked out jaunty rockabilly as the two singers delivered blackly comic lyrics about a serial wife murderer....
...Electronics rose from 17 per cent to 70 per cent of Nymex volumes by June 2007. Total volumes also soared, with the West Texas Intermediate crude benchmark doubling between 2005 and 2007....
...luxury Lexus marque, writes Robert Harding....
...In 2007 a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group was sanctioned for doing business with criminal groups....
...“People are suddenly saying I want one of these [but] I’m paying no more than I would for my fancy Audi or Lexus. There doesn’t seem to be a huge trade-off....
...He has led a push to refresh the company’s Lexus luxury marque, putting the division directly under his control, and entered development partnerships with BMW and Tesla, the maker of sleek electric roadsters...
...This would surpass its previous sales record of 8.43m vehicles set in 2007....
...Mr Ribotsky allegedly used the $1m to make payments on two cars – a Mercedes and a Lexus – and a Rolex watch....
...“Hyundai has not reached the point of a premium marque like Lexus or (Nissan’s) Infiniti....
...members died when their Lexus ES 350 luxury saloon sped out of control at more than 100mph and crashed into a ravine, where it burst into flames....
...The vehicles being recalled are mostly models sold only in Japan, as well as the petrol versions of Toyota’s Avensis family car made in 2000-08 and of its Lexus luxury marque’s IS 250 model made in 2007-...
...Toyota’s average operating margin in the three years before the crisis was a lofty 8.9 per cent. Operating profit reached Y2,270bn ($27bn) in 2007-8, a record for a Japanese manufacturer....
...“We’re going to target the young generation who, because of various reasons, can’t buy a real premium car like BMW and [Toyota’s] Lexus, but don’t want to buy a typical entry car either,” says Wonhong Cho...
...Toyota initially recalled 55,000 vehicles to replace their floor mats in 2007, but the fatal crash of a Lexus sedan in California two years later was blamed on an out-of-place mat designed for another Lexus...
...In the US, Toyota’s Lexus premium marque holds a large share of the market, although it has failed to replicate this success in Europe or China....
...Toyota also operates a standard engine factory in the area and an assembly plant that manufactures high-end Lexus models....
...Mr Farley joined Ford in 2007 after 17 years at Toyota, where he headed its Lexus luxury brand....
...For instance, would you like a 2007 Lexus from Utah-based Barnes Bank (Failed: January 2010) ?...
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