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...It was in the red barn 40 years ago that Jakob Hatteland, the scion of the family, started a television repair business and expanded into selling electrical components....
...Mr Smith added that Mr Farley’s “willingness to expand and explore”, which he showed at Toyota when he launched Scion, a car meant to attract younger drivers, should serve him well as Ford pushes forward...
...Japanese carmaker Toyota is stumping up $349m to back Joby Aviation, which aims to launch services as early as 2023....
...Volkswagen has coupled up with Ford in a global alliance while Toyota is expanding its partnership with Suzuki....
...When Ford was looking to sell JLR in 2008, Bhattacharyya invited Ratan Tata, scion of the family, to the West Midlands with the aim of convincing him to buy the British brands....
...The 48-year-old scion of Hyundai’s founding family is tightening his control of the struggling carmaker at a time when Hyundai is losing its cost competitiveness and falling behind in the race for eco-friendly...
...This involves buying a Toyota RAV4, the same model as the vehicle Halbach drove and which was found spattered with her blood....
...John Elkann, scion of Italy’s Agnelli family who controls Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, the carmaker behind Jeep and Alfa Romeo, is once again seeking a deal that would strengthen the group through an alliance...
...Gucci, the fastest growing of Europe’s biggest luxury goods companies, cites as inspiration Facebook and Google, lean manufacturing at Toyota and Kia, and Israel’s Silicon Wadi....
...Will Fords kill the driver, and Toyotas kill the crowd? Will Fords in Detroit do one thing and Fords in Shanghai do another?...
...Toyota is the world’s biggest carmaker but according to Akio Toyoda, the scion who heads the business, it exists only because of an early success in Japan’s efforts to go global....
...But it also rebadged a sports car from its Scion brand, which it is abolishing, as the Toyota 86, the brand’s only true sports car....
...Toyota’s Scion brand — intended to appeal to millennial consumers who have proved reluctant to enter the car market — was also clear about its motivation in launching a new concept — known as the C-HR —...
...Scion brand, designed to appeal to elusive younger buyers....
...Bill Fay, US vice-president of the Toyota brand – the company also markets Lexus and Scion vehicles in the US – said the increases were a sign of a “steadily recovering industry”....
...It had been run for decades by partnerships of Agnelli family scions and autocratic chief executives. Ten years on, Fiat does not look very different....
...Toyota and its two sister brands, Lexus and Scion, plan to unveil 19 new or substantially refreshed models this year in an attempt to recapture their past glory....
...Toyota’s Scion brand has a Detroit-type problem....
...Demand was also stronger for Toyota’s compact and hybrid SUVs and for the youth-targeted Scion....
...Apart from the Camry, it plans to launch nine new models this year, including two from the upmarket Lexus brand and one from Scion, its youth-oriented marque....
...Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family and one of the most powerful members of the ruling Congress party, has made the issue a rallying cry, but the bill will be introduced only in the next session...
...GM had 10 models in the top three of their segments, well ahead of Toyota (including Lexus and the youth-oriented Scion brand) with five....
...Weirdly, Akio Toyoda, scion of the Toyota family, summed it up rather well. “Believe me, Toyota’s car is safety,” the chief executive of Japan’s most iconic company said....
...Tony Walker, the bluff deputy managing director of the Toyota site, was expecting to meet the stiff and detached Osborne of popular perception....
...Lexus unveiled its first small hybrid, Mini gave pride of place to its new four-door Countryman, and Mazda and Scion – Toyota’s youth-oriented brand – showed pint-sized 100-horsepower models....
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