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blogs.cars.com - 3/13/2009
Toyota Developing Rival for Honda Insight
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Now here’s an escalation in hostilities the world can definitely use. Mere days after Honda announced pricing for its 2010 Insight — billing it as the first hybrid on the market to come in below $20,000 — a Japanese business daily is reporting Toyota will fire back by developing its own ...
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