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Penske Motor Group's flagship dealership is Longo Toyota in El Monte, California, the largest car dealership in the world at over 50 acres (200,000 m 2). [1] In addition to Toyota sales and service facilities, the El Monte dealership campus also includes a Starbucks , Subway restaurant, Verizon Wireless store, Enterprise Rent-A-Car agency, and ...
An active Republican, at 18 years of age, he became the private secretary to Governor of Texas, Edmund J. Davis. [1] In 1874, Stevens became deputy of collector of customs in Galveston, and later clerked for the Southern Pacific Railroad in that city. He married Bettie Thornton of San Antonio in 1879, and had five children with her. [1]
Edward Steves (1829–90) was a San Antonio city alderman who had relocated to Texas from his native Germany. He and his wife Johanna maintained a family home on rural acreage in Kendall County. He ran the successful Steves Lumber Company [11] in San Antonio from 1866 to 1877. Steves was a civic leader in the San Antonio business community ...
The three-story Richardsonian Romanesque Stevens Building at 315 E. Commerce was designed by architect James Riely Gordon for San Antonio businessman John J. Stevens and completed in 1891. The Wagner & Chabot [3] bicycle wholesaler occupied the building for 45 years. Bledsoe Furniture Company was a tenant for 33 years.
After long deliberations including the offer of $227 million in subsidies, a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) site on the far south side of San Antonio was selected as the location for the new 2,000,000-square-foot (190,000 m 2) assembly plant.
Lexus Canada also entered the GS 450h in 2007's Targa Newfoundland event. [258] In 2009, Lexus Super GT Team SC 430 and IS 350 racers won the GT500 and GT300 championships, respectively. [259] In 2006, 2007, and 2008, Lexus won the Rolex Sports Car Series Manufacturers' Championship.
The production standards used on the Lexus LS were eventually adopted by the manufacturer for other vehicles; in 2007, the assembly of Toyota Corolla economy cars used the same panel gap measurements as the LS 400 did eighteen years earlier. [162]
The Lexus RX (Japanese: レクサス・RX, Hepburn: Rekusasu RX) is a luxury crossover SUV sold since 1998 by Lexus, a luxury division of Toyota.Originally released in its home market of Japan in late 1997 as the Toyota Harrier, export sales began in March 1998 as the Lexus RX.