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Southeast Toyota Posts Record April Sales

5 May 2000

Southeast Toyota Posts Record April Sales

    MIAMI, May 4 Southeast Toyota Distributors, Inc. today
announced the best-ever April retail sales in its 30-year history.  The
company's former April record, set in 1999, was surpassed by 21 percent.
    Throughout Southeast Toyota's five-state region, retail truck sales in
April advanced 43 percent over the year-ago month while retail car sales
advanced 17 percent.
    April's sales leaders 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.