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Toyota gets tougher on costs; look out - the leanest is about to get leanerToyota gets tougher on costs; look out - the leanest is about to get leaner
Just when they thought they were catching up with Toyota Motor Corp.'s pacesetting lean production methods, the world's other automakers face a new threat: Toyota is set to become still leaner.Already the envy of everyone else as the lowest-cost producer of high quality vehicles, Toyota is waging yet another war on waste.Spurred on by the persistently strong yen, which has forced price increases repeatedly
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