The Toyota USA Automobile Museum was an automobile museum located in

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, adjacent to the Toyota Motor Sales USA. The location had its grand-reopening on its 10th anniversary. The museum closed on September 28, 2017. It was the only official Toyota Museum outside Japan; with the

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located in

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, Japan. The museum, which was maintained by the TMS Corporate Communications Department. was intended to preserve a collection of historical models milestone vehicles representing

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’s history in the

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. The museum's inventory consisted of more than 100 Toyota,

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and

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vehicles, dating from 1958 to 2013.

Notable exhibits

* Hollywood/Futuristic: the Lexus “ Minority Report”

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movie prototype, three very rare

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s, along with a poster of the

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movie, “ You Only Live Twice”, where the car appeared, plus a cutaway drawing and technical schematics * Racing: Ivan “Ironman” Stewart's famous off-road stadium truck; GTP race cars; a

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historical photo wall; and the Chip Ganassi Target Champ Car,

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, and the Land Speed Record

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. * New Brand: the recently introduced Scion xA and xB and tC vehicles * Environmental: The Prius, an early mass-produced gasoline/electric hybrid vehicle, along with a cutaway drawing * Design: CALTY studio concept drawings, clay and 3-D fiberglass models * One of a Kind: several serial No. 1 vehicles from U.S. and Canadian manufacturing plants, along with some pre-production prototype vehicles

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Notable exhibits

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