I interviewed Seiji Watanabe, the designer of the new Mitsubishi Outlander – a great car, by the way
By: Norris McDonald
April 24, 2021
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In 2011, at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, I listened to Akio Toyoda, president of the Toyota Motor Corp., try to speak English.
Reading from teleprompters, complete with phonetics, he talked about the Camry being the No. 1 passenger car in the United States and wanted the media present to know that the company was committed to the American consumer and the U.S. economy.
He had a hard time doing this. English is not his first language. It would be like asking