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Southeast Toyota Posts Best-Ever February Sales

10 March 2000

Southeast Toyota Posts Best-Ever February Sales

    MIAMI, March 9 Southeast Toyota Distributors, Inc. today
announced the best-ever February retail sales in its 30-year history.  The
company's former February record, set in 1999, was surpassed by 16 percent.
    Throughout Southeast Toyota's five-state region, retail truck sales in
February advanced 39 percent over the year-ago month while retail car sales
advanced 11 percent.
    Sales leaders for the month include four all-new Toyota offerings: the
full-size Indiana-built Tundra pickup, the affordable ECHO sedan, the
radically styled Celica sports car, and the Kentucky-built Avalon sedan.
    Ranked first among Toyota's American distributors in sales and customer
satisfaction, Southeast Toyota is the independent distributor of Toyotas in
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.  Owned and
operated by JM Family Enterprises, Inc., Southeast Toyota is based in
Deerfield Beach, Florida.