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Pine Ridge Mall-Inaugural indoor Winter/New Year Car Show: North Wing!

Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive Sith Lords posing as Jedi Masters), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.

It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.

NORTH WING:

How all those cars got into the mall, video by me:

Pine Ridge Mall-Center Court: INAUGURAL INDOOR WINTER/NEW YEAR CAR SHOW!

Pine Ridge Mall-Center Court: Inaugural indoor Winter/New Year Car Show!

Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive enthusiasts), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.  It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.

One of the possible conspirators, practicing his Jedi Mind Tricks on some mall-goers!

I worked for the original owner of the Pine Ridge Mall during the few years before it was sold to the second owner, an evil global corporation based in Chicago, and we used to have car and RV displays during the warmer months of the year.  But, the evil second owner killed everything off!  The Pine Ridge Mall is on its third owner, supposedly a family company based in Saint Louis, Missouri, which specializes in bringing back depressed malls. The third owners have been working hard to slowly bring in new businesses, and they gave their blessings on this inaugural Winter/New Year indoor auto-show (with a possibility for more car shows!).

CENTER COURT:

Pine Ridge Mall: THE CAR SHOW INSTIGATOR! AND HIS STEED, THE MIDNIGHT CORVETTE!

Toyota lies about not moving U.S. jobs to Mexico!

06 January 2017 (14:18 UTC-07 Tango 06) 17 Dey 1395/07 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1438/09 Ji Chou 4714

“Once we decide to build a facility, we have to take responsibility for employment and the local society.”-Toyoda Akio, Toyota Motor President, during interview with NHK about plans to build a new factory in Mexico, 06 January 2017

“Toyota plans on manufacturing Corollas in Mexico….”-NHK, 05 January 2017

In past couple of days there were news reports of president elect Donald Trump threatening Nipponese company Toyota with huge tariffs if it moves production of Corollas to Mexico.  I’ve watched several reports on Nippon’s NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation), one report in which Toyota administrators actually stated they never had plans to move U.S. production to Baja California, Mexico.  That’s a lie!

In my December industrial job destruction report I wrote “Kentucky: What automotive industry recovery? Japan based Toyota eliminating the remaining 650 jobs as it shuts down its North American HQ in Erlanger!  News reports say at one time there were nearly 2-thousand Toyota employees in Kentucky.”

This is interesting because Toyota’s own U.S. website says “This is an exciting time to be a part of Toyota, as we bring together all of our headquarters operations in Plano, TX (about 20 miles north of Dallas), expand our technical center near York Township, MI, and build a new production engineering facility in Georgetown, KY.”

Some of those Kentucky jobs are going to Mexico!  It’s not just Toyota’s HQ in Kentucky that’s ‘moving’ to Mexico, but factory jobs across the U.S. as well.

NHK reporters pointed out that Toyota has already spent the past few years building a new factory in Mexico, proving that Toyota does plan to move U.S. production to Mexico.   Back in 2014, Toyota announced it would consolidate it’s U.S. factory production by the end of 2018, however, Toyota claimed it was moving the jobs to Texas and Michigan, not Mexico.

At the beginning of January 2017, some of the 648 Toyota HQ staff in Erlanger began leaving for the new HQ in Plano, Texas.  Toyota factories in California and New York are shutting down production under the consolidation plan (already in 2015 Toyota shifted Tacoma production from California to Texas).

But another clue that Toyota is planning on moving U.S. jobs to Mexico is the fact that Mexico’s leaders are trying to make deals to keep jobs in Mexico, including Toyota jobs since “Toyota is spending $1bn to expand its Mexican facilities and Akio Toyoda, its president, said the company will ‘see what policies the incoming [US] president adopts’ before deciding whether to take action.”

WORLD WAR 3: RUSSIA BACKS UP BLIND BAT NEWS’ CLAIM AS TO WHERE ALL THOSE ISIS TOYOTAS ARE COMING FROM!

FALSE FLAG OR INCOMPETENCE? 21,000 KG THERMOBARIC ‘BOMBS’ HIT TOYOTA’S CHINA OPS

2015: TOYOTA SUDDENLY KILLS 941 JOBS IN CALIFORNIA!

Press Telegram: Toyota to lay off 100 at Long Beach plant

2014: TOYOTA ABANDONS U.S. CAR MARKET?

Syria, 07 October 2015: Proof it’s about Leviathan as Israel discovers oil in Syria! Russian Navy joins the fight (video)! Islamic State skins man alive!

The main stream news media is finally asking the question about where Islamic State, aka DAIISH, gets all those Toyotas, Fords, and Nissans.  Blind Bat News traced the fleet order of Toyotas back to a dealer, back in February! 

Blind Bat News also showed that General Motors (GMC, Chevy) trucks were also sold, or being supplied by the United States military, to DAIISH.  Of course the U.S. Department of Defense says the trucks were given to ‘rebels’ who then immediately turned them over to ‘Islamic State’.

On the 42nd anniversary of the October War, it’s time for the real reason Israel continues to illegally occupy Syria’s Golan Heights: “…large amounts of oil have been found on the Golan Heights. Estimates are that the amount of oil discovered will make Israel self sufficient for very many years to come.   Afek Oil and Gas chief geologist Dr. Yuval Bartov told Channel 2 News, ‘We are talking about a strata which is 350 meters thick and what is important is the thickness and the porosity. On average in the world strata are 20-30 meters thick, so this is ten times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities. The important thing is to know the oil is in the rock and that’s what we now know.'”

(Leviathan Front: Russian Navy sets up permanent presence in Med!)  (More proof the war in Syria, and in Lebanon, is about Leviathan’s petroleum!) (Cyprus, Leviathan’s Block 12 and Israel!) (U.S. begins Leviathan war games with Israel.)

VIDEO OF RUSSIAN NAVY CRUISE MISSLE LAUNCHES FROM SHIP IN THE CASPIAN SEA, VARIOUS CAMERA ANGLES.

https://www.facebook.com/RTvids/videos/1087197397957179/

The Voyenno-morskoy Flot Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Military-Maritime Fleet of the Russian Federation) launched 26 cruise missiles at DAIISH targets in Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa.   The Russian ships are located in the Caspian Sea, near Iran.

 

Aleppo Governorate:  Syrian Arab Army and Air Force continue battles with U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham = Syria]) for control of the Syrian Air Force Academy, as well as many locations across the governorate.  Syrian Arab Army Air Force bombed eight U.S. and Japanese made gun-trucks on Hareitan-al-Lairamoun road. Syrian Arab Army says they killed 40 U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) insurgents and wounded 65 others inside Aleppo City.  Syrian Arab Army units, YPG (Kurdish People’s Protection Units) and YPJ (Kurdish Women’s Defense Units) continued battles with DAIISH over the Aleppo City neighborhood of al- Sheikh Maqsoud and the Scientific Research Center west of Aleppo City.  Unconfirmed reports of three civilian deaths caused by Syrian and Russian airstrikes.

Damascus (Rif Dimashq) area:  Syrian Arab Army attacked insurgents groups calling themselves Islam Army, Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union and Al-Rahman Legion in the farms and villages of Eastern Ghouta.  Many U.S./Japanese made pickup trucks destroyed. Reports that children in areas controlled by insurgents are dying from lack of medical care.

A SyriaTel cell phone service center.

Daraa Governorate:   Syrian Arab Army continued battles with insurgents including repelling another assault on the SyriaTel communications building by Nusra Front.

Deir Ezzor Governorate: Syrian Arab Army hit a car near the oil fields of Tim with an artillery round.  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the car was civilian, not insurgent, and three people were killed.

Hama Governorate: Reports that insurgents are launching artillery rockets at villages.

YPG Russian made MTLB tracked armored transporter.

YPJ (Kurdish Women’s Defense Units) of Hasakah in their Toyota gun-trucks.

Hasakah Governorate: Syrian Arab Army units and YPG-YPJ continued battles with DAIISH.  At least three DAIISH insurgents killed while assaulting a Syrian Arab Army outpost.  Visit Syria: Al Hasakah – Assyrian New Year & Machine Gun Man for a glimpse of what life was like before the U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli instigated war.

DAIISH in their Japanese made gun-trucks.

Homs Governorate: Battles continued between Syrian Arab Army and DAIISH around Tadmur (Palmyra) City, as well as across the governorate.   Syrian Arab Army Air Force and Russian Vozdushno-KosmicheskieSily Rossii destroyed U.S. and Japanese made vehicles and killed many DAIISH insurgents near the al-Shaer oil field and in northern al-Qaryatain village.  103 rebel Syrians reported to the Syrian Arab Army in response to the ongoing reconciliation operation.   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that DAIISH skinned a man alive for “defaming a chaste women”!

Idlib Governorate: After at least a month of fighting between insurgents and government forces, reports say the Shansharah archaeological site has been destroyed.

VIDEO OF INSURGENT TOYOTA  HZJ79 Landcruiser (aka Landcruiser 70) GUN-TRUCK ARMED WITH TWIN 14.5MM MACHINE GUNS.

Quneitra Governorate:  Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces (militia) report a battle with Nusra Front, after Nusra Front hit a village with 20 artillery mortar rounds, killing three civilians.  Syrian Arab Army and NDF destroyed several U.S. and Japanese made gun-trucks, some armed with 14.5mm machine guns, as well as killing insurgents.  Reports that bodies are being pulled from rubble caused by Russian airstrikes days ago.

Swieda Governorate:  Syrian Arab Army destroyed ten U.S./Japanese made vehicles transporting insurgents coming from the U.S.-U.K. puppet country of Jordan.

06 October 2015: U.S. targets oil fields!

False Flag or Incompetence? Toyota continues to get hit! Insurance payouts double!

25 August 2015 (04:04 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Shahrivar 1394/10 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/12 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

More than a week after massive thermobaric explosions nearly destroyed the Binhai District in Tianjin, China, Japanese car maker Toyota continues to suffer economically.

Toyota is delaying the re-start of their production lines at least until the end of this week.  One report said Toyota’s Tianjin production shutdown is costing them 2-thousand 2-hundred new cars per day!

Toyota is also shutting down their Changchun factory due to lack of parts that are shipped from Japan through Tianjin.

Germany’s Volkswagen confirmed last week’s estimate of the number of VWs lost in the explosions.

French carmaker Renault is considering using ports other than Tianjin for future car shipments.

There are reports that the price of foreign cars are now skyrocketing in China.  However, United Kingdom’s Jaguar-Land Rover claims that it won’t raise prices even though there is now a waiting list for their vehicles.

Credit Suisse, of Switzerland, says expected insurance payouts have nearly doubled to $2.2-billion USD.

A Reuters reports said the Tianjin Rui Hai International Logistics warehouse explosions could be seen coming from a mile away: “More than 4-thousand people have actually died in 2-thousand 6-hundred accidents between 2009 and 2014, so this is a significant problem.”-Clare Baldwin, Reuters

Tianjin administrators even ordered Rui Hai International Logistics to review safety concerns at their warehouse the week before the explosions.  Analysts blame a combination of complicated multi-governmental agencies trying to regulate the chemical industry, with outright corruption across all levels of business and government.

Research by an Ecosocialist Feminist Revolutionary was able to connect the dots between shareholders of Rui Hai International Logistics and top Chinese government administrators.

The government of China has apparently imposed a news media blackout concerning the Shandong explosions.

Yet another chemical warehouse explodes in China! 

The latest stats:

4,460 PLA and police personnel deployed

129 people dead (mainly firefighters, police and warehouse employees)

692 wounded (confirmed 67 Toyota employees wounded, it could have been more as the majority of Toyota employees had the day off, U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere also reported wounded employees, but refused to give specific numbers)

610 people still hospitalized

number of missing reduced to 44

322 rescued

Blast radius 3km

779 buildings damaged or destroyed

More than 11-thousand new cars destroyed, area now called Tomb of Cars

Jaguar-Land Rover reports nearly 6-thousand new vehicles destroyed

1-thousand+ new Toyotas destroyed, 4-thousand 7-hundred new Toyotas damaged beyond repair

Lexus said they had 783 new cars at the port of Tianjin, but did not say they were damage, only that they would be delivered late. 

1-thousand 5-hundred new Renaults destroyed

2-thousand 7-hundred new VWs destroyed

Evacuation radius 5km

Vanke Harbor City residential area hardest hit affecting 260-thousand square meters (853-thousand square feet)

10 hectares (24.7 acres) confirmed contaminated with sodium cyanide

17-thousand families evacuated

30-thousand people directly affected

12 schools and 3 apartment buildings now evacuation shelters

False Flag or Incompetence? 21,000 kg thermobaric ‘bombs’ hit Toyota & John Deere!

18 August 2015 (14:56 UTC-07 Tango 01)/27 Mordad 1394/03 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1436/05 Jia-Shen (7th month) 4713

“…it’s some kind of dysfunctional process of planning!”-Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Hofstra University, interviewed by CCTV-America about why residential units were allowed to be built so close to Tianjin warehouses containing massive volumes of volatile chemicals

The latest casualties as a result of last weeks earthquake causing thermobaric explosions in China are economic; Japan’s Toyota and the U.S. based Deere (formerly John Deere) have halted their operations in Tianjin.  (all three production lines at Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Company shutdown, Deere reports windows and doors at their Tianjin factory blown out)

Just over five days ago the Rui Hai International Logistics operated warehouse caught fire, then two massive explosions equivalent to 21-thousand kilograms (21 metric tons) of TNT knocked people who were 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) away on their asses!  (There’s plenty of cell phone video of the Tianjin explosions on the internet.)

The explosions nearly leveled the entire Binhai new district.  An investigation is underway to find out the cause, and why so many highly volatile chemicals were being stored together in one massive warehouse, and why more than 7-hundred metric tons of toxic sodium cyanide were also in the warehouse (that’s 30 times the allowed limit for warehouse storage).

The cyanide has contaminated the ground for at least 5km (3.1 miles) radius.  The city’s sewage treatment plant has been dumping activated charcoal into the water due to high levels of cyanide.  The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been spraying hydrogen peroxide in an attempt to neutralize the cyanide.

Despite the past week’s decontamination and search & rescue efforts, yesterday the PLA and city administrators revealed they still have not entered the epicenter of the explosion site due to massive chemical contamination.

The sodium cyanide was being stored for a Chinese mining supply company whose many customers are mining ops in North and South America.  If anybodies been paying attention to mining industry news then they’d know that the mining industry is undergoing massive shutdowns due to collapsing commodity market prices.  This could explain why more than 7-hundred metric tons of cyanide had built up in the Rui Hai warehouse.  Sodium cyanide is used to separate precious metals from rock.

It wasn’t just cyanide in that warehouse; massive amounts of benzene, hydrogen and various oxidizing agents, among other chemicals, as Rui Hai specializes in transporting volatiles. But these chemicals can also be used to make thermobaric bombs (fuel-air bombs), which are the next best thing to nukes.

Today it is raining in Tianjin, residents have been warned not to touch the rainwater runoff.  Pics show foaming effect as rainwater mixes with contamination on the ground.

Tianjin is China’s third largest port city, the biggest commodities handled there are oil, natural gas and iron ore. However, the explosions at the warehouse did not affect port operations.

The latest stats:

114 people dead (mainly firefighters, police and warehouse employees)

692 wounded (more than 50 Toyota employees wounded, it could have been more as the majority of Toyota employees had the day off, U.S. farm vehicle maker Deere also reported wounded employees, but refused to give specific numbers)

57 missing

322 rescued

Blast radius 3km

779 buildings damaged or destroyed

1-thousand+ new Toyotas destroyed

1-thousand 5-hundred new Renaults destroyed

2-thousand 7-hundred new VWs destroyed

Evacuation radius 5km

10 hectares (24.7 acres) confirmed contaminated with sodium cyanide

6-thousand people evacuated

12 schools and 3 apartment buildings now evacuation shelters

 

“How I’m going to make it anymore?” 27-thousand jobs gone! No Turkey for T-giving? Puerto Rico defaults!: U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 26 – 27 July 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Japan based Nintendo ending its three years old TVii service in North America in August.  Administrators say they must focus resources (code for money) “on other projects.” 

France based Publicis Groupe (aka Publicis Healthcare Communications Group) owned Rosetta North America has been eliminating U.S. jobs ever since it was merged with Razorfish Healthware.

Alabama: Audio-visual company MindGear Labs ending their ops in Madison, saying they are focusing on their educational services.  They are also reducing their membership rates in September, however new memberships won’t be accepted until next year.  Administrators added that “Our online products will go on hiatus until the latter part of 2015. However, we will continue to work small and large projects for individuals and companies.”

California: What automotive market recovery?  Japan based Toyota issued shutdown WARNs for their operations in Gardena and Torrance, 3-thousand 1-hundred jobs lost by December, happy Xmas!  Sears Holdings finally revealed how many people will lose their jobs when the Cupertino Sears & Auto Center shuts down in October; 98.   Michigan based Associate Management Resources issued a shutdown WARN for their San Diego ops, 588 jobs lost!  In San Francisco, Cafe de la Presse told state administrators they’re closing, supposedly temporarily in September, 85 jobs lost. After three years of operations ‘mail order’ retailer Minno shutting down in September, 255 jobs lost!  Sunglass maker Oakley issued multiple layoff WARNs saying 167 Californians will become unemployed in September!  Albertsons-Safeway issued yet another layoff WARN for Pleasanton, another 14 people being let go in September.  Beverage delivery company DS Services of America issued shutdown WARNs for Los Angeles and Pasadena, 320 jobs lost by the end of September!  In San Jose, Maxim Integrated issued another layoff WARN for September, 11 jobs lost on top of the 150 made public just a week ago!  Boeing issued yet more layoff WARNs, saying 244 more Californians will be jobless by September! In Monterey, American Management Services shutdown, 56 jobs lost.

Hawaii: More ObamaCare job loses at Hawaii Health Systems.  After eliminating 87 jobs administrators say they must eliminate another 30, mostly from their Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital and West Kauai Clinics.  This time administrators blame state ‘lawmakers’ for cutting  $3-million USD from their fiscal year 2016 operating budget.

Indiana: More layoffs in the coal industry.  Hallador Energy owned Sunrise Coal laid off 175 people!  They blame low coal demand for forcing them to consolidate operations.  In South Bend, pasta restaurant Ciao’s shutting  down, the owner doesn’t know what he’s going to do.   In Mishawaka, DeCloedt’s Flower Place shutdown after more than 60 years.  The 85 years old owner blames decreasing sales and increasing costs of operations: “I sat here the other morning and wondered ‘How I’m going to make it anymore?'”-Mary Ann DeCloedt

Iowa: News reports out of Des Moines report skyrocketing egg prices, and turkey shortages, due to the H5N2 bird flu.  Grocery chains Hy-Vee and Fareway report that while turkey prices are steady, supply is crashing forcing them to ration: “We just receive a percentage of what we normally get, then we allocate that out to our stores.”-John Turner, Fareway Stores

The price of eggs in grocery stores have tripled, and at restaurants diners are paying an average of 25 cents more per egg.  One restaurant owner said the high price of eggs has jacked up the cost of making pancakes by  $1,200 USD, per week: “It’s really starting to get pricey. We hope it will be a short-lived situation.”-David “Stoney” Stone, Waveland Cafe

Kansas: After 22 years Bella Luna Cafe shutdown.  It’s being blamed on a recent death in the family and trying to run three restaurants at one time: “It’s not about money for me. It’s about being happy, and I’m not happy…”– Matteo Taha

Michigan: Italy owned Fiat-Chrysler has been ordered to buy back hundreds of thousands of Dodge and Jeep vehicles and pay a record $105-million in fines, after it was shown that drivers of the vehicles could lose control too easily, and that plastic gas tanks are exploding upon impact.  Also, it was recently proven that you can hack into computer controlled vehicles (meaning most vehicles built in the past 15 years) during a wireless takeover demonstration using a Jeep.

New Hampshire: ObamaCare forcing the Lakeview NeuroRehabilitation Center to shutdown.  It’s officially being blamed on an investigation by the Disability Rights Center.  However, the Associated Press points out that ever since ObamaCare went into effect in 2013 “…13 states had shut down state-run developmental centers, and many more are on the path to closure. ….moving away from placing people in institutions and focusing instead on caring for them within their homes…”.  The owner of Lakeview NeuroRehabilitation Center blames drastic cuts to Medicaid payments and the fact that ObamaCare has cut the number of patients in the 88 bed treatment center to just 10!  After 30 years Reel to Reel video store shutdown.

New York:  Restaurant Associates issued a shutdown WARN saying 84 people will become unemployed by September due to loss of food service contract with Credit Suisse and “Building Renovations”.  God refused to stop ‘his’ Church of the Nativity, on Second Avenue in the East Village, from shutting down.  Only 30 people showed up for its last Sunday service.  NYC based temp employment agency Corporate Resource Services now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  It has something to do with Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo and a payroll service contractor.

North Carolina: The Providence Volunteer Fire Department shutdown in Weddington.  Town residents voted to use fire services from Wesley Chapel because they think it will be cheaper.  Harris Teeter shutting down their Monroe grocery store before the end of August, administrators calling it a “strategic” decision.

Oregon: In Portland, Too Big to Jail Capital One issued multiple shutdown WARNs saying 846 people will become jobless between October 2015 and January 2016!

Puerto Rico: The U.S. territory’s Government Development Bank announced it cannot make its debt payments for 01 August!  Also, the Infrastructure Financing Authority gave up on trying to get a new loan for $3-billion!

Texas: In Plano, after 117 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Vincent’s Seafood restaurant shutdown. The owner blames steadily declining sales over the past few years.   British empire Scotland based Howco shutting down its Yorktown oil tools factory as soon as they fill the last order, at least 17 jobs lost.  Oil field service companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes revealed they’ve eliminated 27-thousand oil industry jobs!  Administrators with the companies blame low oil prices, but its really because the two companies are about to merge.   However, news reports say both companies have sworn to FTC regulators that they are not cutting jobs because of their planned merger.  More jobs cuts are expected if the FTC approves the merger.

Washington DC: Despite the main stream U.S. news media quoting dozens of housing market analysts who continue to say things are good all over, the U.S. Department of Commerce says otherwise.  For June new home sales fell 6.8%, and for May the numbers were revised downward by 29-thousand homes!

25 July 2015: “Times have caught up with us…”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Five Toyotas crushed to death by massive gas tank!

30 May 2014 (20:57 UTC-07 Tango 29 May 2014)/30 Rajab 1435/09 Khordad 1393/02 Ji Si (5th) 4712

At least five brand new unsold Toyotas were killed in Pocatello, Idaho, today.    However, no humans were hurt in the making of the massive accident.

Click on the pics to make them bigger:

“The back trailer started to tilt and sway up and snap and then I looked over at the driver and I seen him yelling into the mic and then I looked down and then just seen it tilt the rest of the way and slowly watched it hit the Computer Warehouse sign and then drift into the parking lot at Phil Meador.”-Miguel Dominic, witness interviewed by KPVI

Witnesses say one of the fatally wounded Toyotas was thrown into the air.  Apparently the newly built tank was heading to a Colorado natural gas plant.

Some Economic Recovery? Toyota will fight rising Yen, by moving Highlander production to the United States

After announcing a 75% drop in profits, due to the rising value of the Japanese Yen, Toyota announced it will move all Highlander production to the United States!

This is because the value of the dollar is so low that it’s now cheaper to make their SUV in the U.S., than in Japan.  Those U.S. made Highlanders will then be sold in the growing Russian and Australian car markets.

Toyota hopes production will begin in their Indiana factory by the middle of 2013.  It will include gasoline engined, and hybrid powered Highlanders.

 

 

What Economic Recovery? Toyota has 72% drop in profits, Japanese Yen to blame

Toyota is reporting a huge drop in profits for the last nine months of 2011.  Profits fell by 72%!

But don’t blame the drop in profit on lack of sales. Sales for the same time fell by 10%.

Toyota says the increasing value of the Yen caused the huge drop in profits, and production halts due to natural disasters, in Japan and Thailand, caused the drop in sales.