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TOYOTA RENEWED MINIVAN "ESTIMA"

Katsuaki Watanabe, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, speaks to the press in Tokyo, Japan, on January 16, 2006. Watanabe boasted that the new ESTIMA is equipped with "panoramic super-live sound system" which enables dramatically wide sound field by using the roof panel as a diaphragm. (UPI Photo/Keizo Mori)

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