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** FILE ** A couple walk by Lexus models displayed at a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

A visitor walks past a car at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Toyota Motor Corp. said it has reached a settlement worth more than $1 billion in a case involving unintended acceleration problems in its vehicles. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Toyota Motor Corp. was one of many automakers with impressive sales increases in November over their 2011 numbers. Annual sales should be the highest since ’08. (Associated Press)

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A man inspects an Aqua model at a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. Toyota's quarterly profit tripled, driven by a recovery from natural disasters, and the company raised its full-year earnings forecast despite a sales slump in China. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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A prospective buyer searches through long lines of unsold Corolla and Camry sedans at a Toyota dealership in Boulder, Colo., in 2007. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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This is Google's new self-driving Toyota Prius, seen during a demonstration on New York Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., Thursday, May 17, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (Ward 3) holds up a bumper sticker she was given following her ride in Google's new self-driving Toyota Prius during a demonstration on New York Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., Thursday, May 17, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., questions witnesses during the committee's hearing on Toyota, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Visitors walk by vehicles on display at a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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Anne Craner (left) chats with her husband, Lorne, where a maple tree fell in front of their home on Princess Street and damaged a Toyota Rav4 during Hurricane Irene in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Sunday, August 28, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Anne Craner chats with her husband, Lorne, near where Hurricane Irene felled a maple tree that damaged a Toyota Rav4 in front of their home on Princess Street in the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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FILE - In this March 28, 2011 file photo, new vehicles damaged by the March 11 tsunami waters sit lined in a Toyota parking lot at Sendai port, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A shortage of auto parts and other components after Japan's earthquake has stirred unease about two pillars of manufacturing: the country's role as a crucial link in the global supply chain and "just in time" production. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)