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Business › Soaring costs has Toyota mulling Japan price hike

Soaring material costs has Toyota considering raising prices in Japan without a model makeover for the first time in three decades, the Japanese automaker said… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Wed, Aug 20 2008

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