- Friends,
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- We realized a big victory today in our efforts to save
the hundreds of existing RAV EVs that Toyota had been crushing. I want
to personally thank those of you who provided support for this effort over
the past few months. See below for the initial write up. And below that
are some pleasing comments from the EV lists.
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- Paul Scott
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- 310-399-5997
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- Greetings Dontcrush.com supporters!
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- Once again, we have such amazing news!!! But first, we'd
like to thank Toyota of Huntington Beach for their hospitality - they even
played music for us, and held up signs of their own as we protested in
front of their building!!!
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- And, it seems we've had the desired effect!
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- Drumroll...
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- Toyota has agreed to stop crushing salable, useable RAV4
EVs!!!! With several hundred cars left out there, this is dontcrush.com,s
biggest win yet, and we applaud Toyota's choice to be responsive to their
customers!!!
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- During the course of a 2-hour meeting with Toyota today,
the dontcrush.com negotiating team worked out the following points, which
will be finalized in writing over the next few weeks:
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- No more usable cars will be crushed- the definition of
'usable' is still to be worked out.
- Current lessees shall have the option to continually
renew their leases as long as the vehicle is usable, as defined by Toyota
and the consumer.
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- Toyota will re-examine their policy of not selling fleet
RAVs and attempt to give current lessees the option to purchase their vehicles
outright.
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- Toyota will create a process by which RAV4 EVs deemed
not salable or usable will be dismantled for parts to be used by the remaining
vehicles.
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- Vehicles neither re-leased nor purchased will continue
to be used; they will be sold to the public, used in the Toyota corporate
fleet or made available for use by non-profit organizations.
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- The specifics of these points will continue to be worked
out by dontcrush.com, but this is a huge victory!!! We'd like to thank
everyone involved in supporting us through writing letters, providing statements,
donations etc. Until these steps are finalized and put in writing, however,
it's important that we continue our activity and show Toyota that we indeed
want to buy their products. To that end, we will be at Power Toyota of
Cerritos on Saturday, July 16, 2005, from 1-3pm:
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- Power Toyota Cerritos
- (562) 860-6561
- (714) 828-5960
- 18700 Studebaker Rd
- Cerritos, CA 90703
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- Directions
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- Come join us in our ongoing victory- we look forward
to seeing you there, and will continue to keep you posted!
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- The dontcrush.com team
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