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Would the Toyota system work in U.S.? NUMMI was a test run

Dennis Cuneo, left, and Nate Furuta were the point men on the NUMMI project. (Mark Bowen, 2007 photo)
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By:
Lindsay Chappell
October 29, 2007 05:00 AM

For Toyota in 1983, the question wasn't whether to build cars in America. The question was how.

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