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Thinkingabout tomorrow: Toyota
① A car's performance is measured in the horsepower that translates into a roaring exhaust note.
② That of carmakers is judged on financial grunt.
③ Toyota's results, unveiled today, come after many in the motor industry have already revealed a spluttering first quarter.
④ A small improvement in sales and profits will not disguise the many difficulties that it and its rivals face.
⑤ The threat of tariffs on imports to America, the firm's biggest market,hangs over Toyota heavier than many others.
⑥ And it is lagging behind rivals in China, another vital market.
⑦ Investors will also hope to find out more about Toyota's big bets on thefuture.
⑧ The company recently said that it would press ahead with investments inhydrogen fuel cells to power its electric vehicles rather than the batteries that most of its competitors are relying on.
⑨ Sceptics think that the technology will never deliver a commercial turbocharge.
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