Interview Opportunity at Chicago Auto Show;

             AutoWeek Editor Dutch Mandel Dubs 'Sport Ute Coupes'
                    As Auto Industry's Newest Design Trend

     WHO:      Dutch Mandel, Editor and Associate Publisher of AutoWeek,
               America's only weekly auto enthusiast/lifestyle publication.

     WHAT:     Dutch Mandel is available to comment on breaking auto news
               topics at this week's Chicago Auto Show with local, national
               and international scope that affect consumers.  He brings a
               studied and practiced perspective to issues generated by the
               industry:  its vehicles, advertising, marketing, product
               planning, and the trends behind the headlines.

               Toyota unveils its new RSC (Rugged Sports Coupe) concept to the
               media February 7th at the Chicago Auto Show.  AutoWeek Editor
               Dutch Mandel points to it as an example of a new genre of
               vehicles categorized by AutoWeek as "Sport Ute Coupes" -- a
               melding of two wildly disparate vehicles targeted at a single
               market.  Is it a sports car?  Is it a sport/ute?  The RSC and
               similar examples of the species like Mitsubishi's RPM7000, Ford
               EX or Pontiac's REV concept, are, according to Mandel, designed
               and styled to appeal to those "spiked-haired, body-pierced,
               skateboard-riding Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers."  Toyota's RSC "speaks
               to the vert-ramp emotion of an aggressive in-line skater," says
               Mandel, "or tugs at our viscera the way watching a street luge
               exhibit or a whitewater kayak competition does."  Although RSC
               is only a design study, according to AutoWeek it may be the
               next shape of cars to come.

     WHERE:    Chicago Auto Show, McCormick Place

     WHY:      AutoWeek identifies and dissects the latest automotive trends
               in its February 12th cover story on the Toyota RSC.

     CONTACT:  For more information or to schedule an interview, please,
               contact Leif Helland or Joseph Molina of JMPR at 818.992.4353

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