Team Toyota

Letter from Jim Lentz, President, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.

It is my great pleasure to congratulate you and your staff for winning
the 2008 Toyota President's Award. By consistently demonstrating
operational excellence and delivering a superior customer experience
at every touchpoint, your dealership has cultivated loyal Toyota customers.
These customers represent the Toyota advocates that will ensure our mutual
prosperity for years to come. Your efforts are invaluable to Toyota and to our
industry and are a standard to which every Toyota dealership should aspire.
Thank you for your outstanding dedication to overall operational excellence,
customer service, and sales. I am proud to have you as part of the team and
know I can count on you to continue to achieve in 2009.

Toyota unveils the all-new, third-generation Sienna minivan at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto show. The Toyota Sienna moves people and cargo comfortably and efficiently. The third-generation Sienna will look and drive more like a sedan, conform to new ideas about personal comfort, easily accommodate cargo, and handle big loads.

Team Toyota joined numerous other dealerships, along with the Toyota
Dealers Association, on Thursday December 17th. Food was collected
at dealerships and service centers, and was delivered to Philabundance,
where it will be distributed to help the local community. It is estimated that
the food will reach over 50,000 people. To date, the Tri-State TDA
has donated 13,000 lbs of food to Philabundance! Thank you to
all customers and employees who contributed food to help out families in need this season.

Students from Pennsbury High School added some holiday flair to
the Team Toyota Service Center windows on Thursday, December 3rd.
We'd like to thank Anthony Napoli, the other teachers,
and all of the students for doing such a great job!

Teagan Kezner (Senior)
Samantha Cappa (Senior)
Andrew Moore (Senior)
Kelsey Skaroff (Junior)
Morgan Dunlap (Junior)
Ryan Rightley (Senior)
Sam Faust (Senior)
Vicky Ewing (Senior)
Courtney Stoop (Senior)
Sydney Schofield (Senior)
Taylor Aulicino (Junior)
Athena Yu (Junior)
Sawyer Lash (Senior)
Cole Quinlan (Sophmore)
Caitlin Hunt (Sophmore)



Teachers:
Curtis May
Tony Napoli

Student Teacher:
Kathy Niwinski

Toyota's plan to inject more excitement into its brand starts with this -
a new rear-wheel-drive coupe concept that's based on the Subaru Impreza.

The car that has been dubbed the 'Toyobaru' has been revealed for the first time.

Toyota's new FT-86 concept will appear at this month's Tokyo motor show as
the first half of a joint-venture rear-wheel-drive sports car with Subaru.

The affordable compact coupe will go on sale in late 2011 with a Toyota badge,
followed by the Subaru version that should get its own styling.
Click here for more info...

30 finalists gathered at The Franklin Institute on Tuesday.
Congratulations to Jerrilyn from Levittown, PA on winning a
2-year lease on BEN's Venza!

95.7 BEN FM's Adopt-a-Pet program came to Team Toyota's showroom on July 17th.
Shelter animals who need a good home were on hand, as well as representatives
from PAWS. For more information on pet adoption, please visit their website: www.phillypaws.org

Story and photo courtesy Bucks County Courier Times

Rain delay? What rain delay?

Persistent rains Saturday were not enough to keep more than five dozen
local kids from competing in the 53rd Bucks County Soap Box Derby.
But that doesn't mean the soggy conditions didn't impact the races
down the 1,000-foot hill on Woodbourne Road just north of Five Points
along the Middletown-Bristol Township border.
"It was actually harder, because the water goes in your eyes,"
said Brian Plunkett, 12, after he captured the derby's Stock West division.
Brian earned a trip to the international soap box derby in Ohio in July
by narrowly beating Hailey Fleming, who felt like she was a winner all
day anyway because her dad, Michael, was there to coach her.
"He told me to keep it straight and have an open mind about what I can do,"
said Hailey, 9.

The elder Fleming was able to fit the coaching stint into his two-week
leave from his job as a military intelligence specialist for the U.S. Navy.
He's heading back to Norfolk, Va., today to prepare to go to Iraq later this year.
Fleming missed his daughter participating in the derby in 2008 because
he was on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The 1996 Bensalem graduate
savored every moment of their time together Saturday. "It's priceless,"
Fleming said.

The competition is open to kids aged 8 to 17 years old. It's divided into five divisions.
Besides the Stock West division, there's also the Stock East, Superstock East,
Superstock West and Masters divisions. Each level has a different car design
and separates the competitors based on their age, height and experience.

About 50 fewer kids participated this year than in 2008, said derby director Raymond Mongillo II.
The strained economy played a major role in the decline, Mongillo said, because fewer corporate sponsors and families participated than in recent years. However, the derby still got its share of major banking from local businesses.

Team Toyota in Middletown was the competition's title sponsor.

In addition, McCafferty Auto in Middletown and First Federal of Bucks County served as racing sponsors. Families who did participate said the derby makes for a great team-building activity. "We all do this together," said Judy Wolfram, whose three children, Caleb, Hannah and Josiah, competed in the derby. "We like to cheer each other on." In between heats, the Wolfram kids, much like the other competitors, waited with family and friends in the temporary encampment set up along an access road adjacent to Woodbourne. Not far from where the families camped out is the site designated for a racing track to be built for derby practice runs. Bucks County Commissioner James Cawley kicked off the competition Saturday morning by hand delivering a letter of intent confirming the cooperative effort between the county and the soap box organization.

On June 16th, Team Toyota hosted their Prius Unveiling Event from 6-8PM.
There were well over 50 people in attendance, many current generation Prius
owners and several owners of other Toyota models. Team had the A/T package
Prius on display. Customers explored the vehicles, interacted with dealership and
factory employees, got a brief presentation on the new Prius, and asked many,
many questions! Dan Gaughan, Mark Slade and Chris Kosnik were on hand from
the factory, and did a fantastic job fielding questions and assisting with the event.





The 2010 Prius is currently on display in our showroom,
stop in today to see all of the new features and take it for a test drive!

Team Toyota recently partnered with Buck's First Federal Credit
Union and their Project Flipside Initiative, which provides
financial education for 16-25 year olds in a fresh way.



FROM THE PROJECT FLIPSIDE CREW:
This car is seriously amazing. I mean its got one of a kind designs that scream,
HERE COMES THE FLIPSIDE CREW, GET READY TO GAIN MORE FINANCIAL
KNOWLEDGE THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE!!!!! And you?re getting all
of that just from looking at the car, before you even meet the incredibly amazing boys inside.
I?m pretty excited, so I?m willing to bet Bucks County is even more stoked.
Seriously though, you have got to see this car. Keep your eyes peeled for the Flipside crew
rolling through your town with our windows down, and some hot beats blasting.
We might even have some sweet give aways!
For more info on Project Flipside, click here