Toyota tries to sell Prius? where tractors are sexy.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Over the roar of engines that get as little as four miles per gallon, a woman with a microphone asked a crowd milling inside a Toyota exhibit at a Nascar race here, "Does anybody know how much we spend on imported gas?" "Too much," said a man in a T-shirt that read, "She Thinks My Tractor is Sexy." Not exactly, but not too far off: $800 million a day. Some of the racing fans -- in shirts and hats bedecked with the sponsor logos ubiquitous on the Nascar circuit -- shook their heads in dismay or swore at the answer.
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