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This Week:

• Volkswagen of America, Inc. Prices Its Top Phaeton Model - Most Accessible 12 Cylinder German Luxury Car Ever

• 2005 Cadillac STS Reveal Slated For New York Auto Show

• New 2005 Chrysler PT Cruiser Convertible Launches Production at Chrysler Group's Toluca Assembly Plant

• The name of the fourth smart model range will be called smart formore

• Jo Cooper Named Group Vice President At Toyota Motor North America In Washington, DC

• More Style, Substance And Value For New Rover 75 Range

• The New BMW R 1200 GS

• Ford Announces New Chief Of Corporate Affairs

• Honda To Introduce V6 Accord Hybrid and Honda-Developed Fuel Cell Stack, Further Advancing Honda Environmental Technology

• DaimlerChrysler's GEM Takes Leadership in Establishing Market for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles

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Jo Cooper Named Group Vice President At Toyota Motor North America In Washington, DC
 

New York, NY - Toyota Motor North America (TMA) President Toshiaki (Tag) Taguchi announced that Josephine S. (Jo) Cooper has been named group vice president of government and industry affairs in Washington, D.C., reporting to TMA Senior Vice President Dennis Cuneo. Cooper will direct all of Toyota's federal government affairs, overseeing lobbying and legislative matters. She was most recently president and chief executive officer of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.

Cooper brings more than 25 years of Washington experience to Toyota, having served as vice president for regulatory affairs at the American Forest & Paper Association; a congressional aide to former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and to then-Representative Dick Cheney; as assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for external affairs; as chief operating officer of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association; and as a corporate public affairs executive with Hill & Knowlton.

Cooper succeeds Douglas M. West, who has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Aichi USA 2005, the Washington, D.C.-based organization responsible for developing the U.S. participation World Exposition 2005 in Aichi, Japan.

Cooper will assume her new position at Toyota effective February 17, 2004.

(Jan 16, 2004)