The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 29, 1977, Image 8

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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1977
Buy One — Get One Free
Skeeter’s Junction
Restaurant
Culpepper Plaza College Station, Tx.
Junction of Hwy. 6 & Hwy. 30
Buy One For Boy or Submarine Sandwich
and
Get One FREE
Hogue Bun, Salami, Bologna, Turkey, Lettuce, Tomatoes
Includes Potato Chips
Present this coupon Expires July 6, 1977
$1
Present This Coupon & Get $1.00 off regular price
Chicken Fried Steak Reg. Price $2.95
Texas Toast, French Fries, & Salad
All meat, No soybean patties
Expires July 6, 1977
$1
Skeeter’s Junction Restaurant
$1
Culpepper Plaza at Hwy. 30 & Hwy. 6
College Station
$ 1
Japanese Toyota grabbing
5 per cent of U.S. market
United Press International
DETROIT — It’s hard to say an
auto company appeals to a limited
market when its cars start grabbing
better than five per cept of the U.S.
market.
That’s just where Toyota is today,
20 years after the Japanese auto firm
began bringing its small cars into
this country.
Not only do its 207,515 sales in
the first five months put it in first
place among imports, but Toyota
has outsold American Motors —
smallest of the U.S. auto firms — by
nearly three to one.
And Toyota is going after every
buyer it can, not just the “import
fanatics’’ as some Detroit industry
executives like to call foreign car
buyers.
“At one time, we felt the import
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buyer was a different kind of
maybe a little better educati
maybe with a little higher incou
said Norman D. Lean, Toyota’s
president for general operal;;
“Our view now is that the
buyer is anybody.
“As our product line broadei Represe
and as our popularity broades
we’ve become the General
of the imports.”
That wide lineup has put To)
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in a different class than itseoi.jtvice say
tors — even the Ford Motor0
which thinks the only way to*1
really small, fuel-efficient cariai ^ three
country is to bring in a Gera ent , at '.y e .
built Fiesta because it doesn’t! ;sn f ,
lieve Americans are interested S a ™ es ,
any small car Detroit has to ofe, SP 5 ! 3 * 01 ' 5
While Lean now feels Toyotal ™ e ^ exa!
a “product for everybody ” andi p re snal si
peals to buyers on more thanjiist | US e A]
“import” appeal, Robert 0, Li;
vice president and general ss) ,l e gj s lati
manager for Nissan, USA Datsu jthelier
still sees the market differently [ exas jyf,
“The imported car buyer in j Presna
import buyer,” Link said "Hi [tee and i
often not interested in domij HS A&M
products at all. state m0I
Cliff Sehmillen, assistantdired ,
and field sales manager for A® ^ en ^
can Honda whose small car salesi 1 " ave to
skyrocketing, figures he’ll get« tl3 8 J 1
of his sales from prospective;!
tomers who already know wk , ” 0U S, !
import is. : artl ^ e
“We re not competing againsll
American domestic small ca ^ W1
We’re competing with Toyt Dayton
Volkswagen and Datsun/’Sckii ler Jegisk
said. “People who are looking! [” Tom
Pintos and Vegas are not looking ]B 0 b £) a
us - imost de
Akira Toriyama, president re preser
Mazda Motors of America, saysl
not trying to sell small can
everyone. Mazda’s rotary enpL 7
powered cars are now aimed at!
performance ear market while!
GLC (Great Little Car) is!
economy entry. wlvlsK
“I don’t think eveiyone will* | e ] ton t<
to get into a small car. Peoplei j[ S day-lm
they’re nice, hut for a long on , at Yettie
they’re not so good. ir since 1!
"The United States is a ven years ole
country and there is a need ties plann
larger cars.” ependenc
And Bunzo Suzuki, Mazdas rodeo st
tional public relations coordini continue
echoed the statements of(« dlers Cc
foreign auto company for thti i. July 4.
ports’ success in this count ntry-west
quality. 10 a.m. 1
“In any country, a foreign pi is fair am
net has appeal,” Suzuki said.
reason for good sales now is qua t. Covere
and suitability.”
Lean said Toyota’s approad
the U.S. market is differenti
that of any Detroit auto Compaq
“We made every effort over
past 10 to 15 years to bring
products up to a level where w
superior to anything on the
highways,” he said. “We’re wort
at it from the consumer
view rather than from the viewp
of just selling cars.”
Bond Program
to be presentee
in public meetin
The fourth and fifth in a serif!
seven neighborhood public
ings to present the 1977 BryanBa
Program to Bryan voters
held this Tuesday and Thud
evenings at 7.30.
The Tuesday meeting willbe
at Crockett School for citizens If'
in that general area. The Thud
meeting will be at Bonham Scl(
for residents living in thatviciai
The general public is also invited
attend these meetings.
At both meetings representati
from the Bryan City Council
Citizen Advisory Committee,
the City Staff will give a slide
sentation concerning the upcond
July 9th Bond Election as wel
answer any questions citizens®!
have concerning the 1977 Capi
Improvements Bond Program.
Eddie Dominguez#
Joe Arciniega V
Greg Price
/
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