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By now, we should all be familiar with Toyota Motor's (TM, news, msgs) woes. No sooner had the automaker finally ascended to the No. 1 global spot, displacing General Motors (MTLQQ, news, msgs), now known as Motors Liquidation, than it began to hit speed bumps and potholes. There were historic financial losses, lawsuits and embarrassing, tragic recalls. At one point, it was widely believed that Toyota could do no wrong. All of a sudden, it could do no right.

So the Tokyo Motor Show, by all rights, should have been an opportunity for Toyota to redeem itself in its own backyard. Along with Honda Motor (HMC, news, msgs) and Nissan Motor (NSANY, news, msgs), Japan's two other big carmakers, Toyota had the place to itself. The grim story of the Tokyo show, traditionally a forum for rollouts of exotic concept cars, was that few international automakers would be spending the money to make the trip to the Land of the Rising Sun.


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