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Southeast Toyota Posts Best-Ever March Sales

12 April 2000

Southeast Toyota Posts Best-Ever March Sales

    MIAMI, April 12 Southeast Toyota Distributors, Inc. today
announced the best-ever March retail sales in its 30-year history.  The
company's former March record, set in 1997, was surpassed by seven percent.
    Throughout Southeast Toyota's five-state region, retail truck sales in
March advanced 28 percent over the year-ago month while retail car sales
advanced 12 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.