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Volume Issue • January 2018 In This Issue: Find Your Tested, Trusted, Toyota Today! You would spend thousands more for the same safety features that come standard on new Toyotas! Toyota to Introduce Amazon Alexa in its Vehicles Toyota Named to Fortune Magazine’s 2018 ‘World’s Most Admired’ List Toyota Expands Takata Air Bag Safety Recall Affecting Most Auto Manufacturers Many Thanks to our Team Members for their Hard Work and Dedication! Bredemann Toyota Anniversaries 6 Best Coffee Houses in Illinois and Indiana Drink a better cup of joe at these local joints Why Service Your Vehicle at Bredemann Toyota? What to Do if Your Windshield Washer Fluid Freezes Toyota Production in North America Nearly 2 Million in 2017 Toyota Certified Sale: The Best New Cars Make the Best Used Cars! 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You would spend thousands more for the same safety features that come standard on new Toyotas! Click HERE to learn about the standard safety features that give Toyota an edge over its competitors! You would have to spend thousands more to get the same safety features with another brand! Click HERE to View ALL New Toyota Special Offers Click HERE to View New Toyota Inventory Bredemann Toyota • 847-655-1446 • http://www.bredemanntoyota.com/index.htm Toyota to Introduce Amazon Alexa in its Vehicles LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2018 – Toyota announced today it will introduce Amazon Alexa, Amazon's intelligent cloud based voice service, within select Toyota and Lexus vehicles with Toyota Entune 3.0 App Suite and Lexus Enform App Suite 2.0 in 2018. Additional models will be available in 2019. This feature will allow Toyota and Lexus customers in the United States to interact with Alexa in the car. Alexa can help customers with thousands of things and connects to more than a thousand third-party smart home products for added convenience and ease of use. With Alexa, customers can simply ask for directions, control entertainment, get the news, add items to a shopping list, control their smart home while on the road, and more. “Voice services are rapidly becoming more popular and through our integration with Amazon Alexa, Toyota and Lexus customers will soon be able to easily speak to Alexa in their cars while on-the-go,” said Zack Hicks, senior vice president and chief information officer of Toyota Motor North America and chief executive officer and president of Toyota Connected. “We’re thrilled that Toyota and Lexus will bring Alexa to customers on the road,” said John Scumniotales, head of product for Amazon Alexa Automotive. “Our vision for Alexa is that she should be everywhere a customer might need her – at home, in the office, on phones – and in cars. This integration means that customers can interact with Alexa, virtually anywhere they drive.” Once Alexa is enabled, just ask her to do things like adjust your smart home’s temperature so it’s comfortable when you get there, add milk to your shopping list on your way to the store, or listen to your audiobook from Audible. Bredemann Toyota • 847-655-1446 • http://www.bredemanntoyota.com/index.htm Toyota Named to Fortune Magazine’s 2018 ‘World’s Most Admired’ List Toyota Named to Fortune Magazine’s 2018 ‘World’s Most Admired’ List Toyota is No. 1 in Industry for Fourth Consecutive Year January 19, 2018 PLANO, Texas (Jan. 19, 2018) – Toyota is named again by Fortune as one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” and named the No. 1 motor vehicle company for the fourth consecutive year in an annual ranking . Fortune also recognized Toyota as one of the Top 50 “All-Star” companies surveyed, moving up five spots from last year. Fortune’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” list is widely acknowledged as the definitive report card on corporate reputation and is based on company surveys and industry peer ratings from senior executives, directors and industry analysts. For each company, the survey measures nine attributes considered critical to a company’s global success, including quality of products and services, social and environmental responsibility, global competitiveness, and value as an investment, among others. "Toyota is honored to be listed among the world’s most admired companies once again, and to be recognized as the most admired auto company in the world for the fourth year in a row,” said Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota Motor North America (TMNA). “This ranking acknowledges the many successes of our global team who are committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility for our customers.” The full list appears in the magazine’s February issue (available on newsstands January 22) and can be viewed online now on Fortune’s: http://fortune.com/worlds-most-admired-companies. METHODOLOGY Fortune collaborated with Korn Ferry on this survey of corporate reputation. They began with a universe of about 1,500 candidates: the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue, along with non-U.S. companies in Fortune's Global 500 database that have revenues of $10 billion or more. They then winnowed the assortment to the highest-revenue companies in each industry, a total of 680 in 29 countries. The top-rated companies were picked from that pool of 680; the executives who voted work at the companies in that group. To determine the best-regarded companies in 52 industries, Korn Ferry asked executives, directors, and analysts to rate enterprises in their own industry on nine criteria, from investment value and quality of management and products to social responsibility and ability to attract talent. A company’s score must rank in the top half of its industry survey to be listed. To select the 50 All-Stars, Korn Ferry asked 3,900 executives, directors, and securities analysts who had responded to the industry surveys to identify the 10 companies they admired most. They chose from a list made up of the companies that ranked in the top 25% in last year’s surveys, plus those that finished in the top 20% of their industry. Anyone could vote for any company in any industry. The difference in the voting rolls explains why some results can seem at odds with each other. For example, Deere fell off the All-Star list but moved up one notch within the construction and farm machinery category when votes from only those in that industry were counted. About Toyota Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in the U.S. and North America for 60 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands. During that time, Toyota has created a tremendous value chain as our teams have contributed to world-class design, engineering, and assembly of more than 33 million cars and trucks in North America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.) and directly employ more than 46,000 people (more than 36,000 in the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (nearly 1,500 in the U.S.) sold more than 2.6 million cars and trucks (2.4 million in the U.S.) in 2017 – and about 85 percent of all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 15 years are still on the road today. Toyota partners with community, civic, academic, and governmental organizations to address our society’s most pressing mobility challenges. We share company resources and extensive know-how to support non-profits to help expand their ability to assist more people move more places. For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyotanewsroom.com. Bredemann Toyota • 847-655-1446 • http://www.bredemanntoyota.com/index.htm Toyota Expands Takata Air Bag Safety Recall Affecting Most Auto Manufacturers Toyota Motor North America, Inc. today announced that, based on recent information from Takata as required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, it is expanding its recall involving Takata front passenger air bag inflators. The involved vehicles are equipped with a particular type of Takata inflator. According to Takata, a safety defect may arise in the front passenger air bag inflators in the involved vehicles due to inflator propellant degradation occurring after prolonged exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. This may result in an inflator rupture when the air bag deploys. This expansion, based on the latest information from Takata, involves approximately 601,300 additional vehicles in the U.S. The following models are included: 2009 – 2010 and 2013 Model Year Scion xB 2009 - 2010 and 2013 Model Year Toyota Corolla 2009 – 2010 and 2013 Model Year Toyota Corolla Matrix 2009 – 2010 Model Year Toyota Yaris 2010 and 2013 Model Year Toyota 4Runner 2013 Model Year Toyota Sienna All known owners of the involved vehicles will be notified by first class mail by early March.