Akio Toyoda: Master driver, late bloomer

Akio Toyoda, at a 2016 rally race, says his role is to be “the guardian of the taste of Toyota and Lexus cars.” (HANS GREIMEL)

May 21, 2017 05:00 AM

TOKYO -- Akio Toyoda is re-nowned as Toyota's driving CEO, at home spinning doughnuts in the mud for race fans or pushing a Camry stock car flat out around a banked oval.

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