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- <text id=89TT3290>
- <title>
- Dec. 18, 1989: Business Notes:Autos
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 58
- Business Notes
- AUTOS
- O.K., So We're Human
- </hdr><body>
- <p> When Toyota introduced its Lexus LS 400 luxury automobile
- in September, it ran ads touting the $35,000 sedan as the
- ingenious brainchild of "1,400 perfectionists" and "close to
- faultless." Toyota was wise to hedge that claim. Because of
- safety defects, the company last week recalled all 8,000 of the
- Lexus LS 400s it has sold in the U.S. The Japanese carmaker made
- the decision after it received some customer complaints about
- loose wiring, a faulty cruise control and a malfunctioning brake
- light. The defects have caused no accidents or injuries, but the
- episode is an embarrassment for Toyota because of the high
- expectations surrounding the top-of-the-line model.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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