TRUCK TUSSLE: Acrimony lingers as Ford, Toyota go solo in race for hybrid pickups

摘要

Long after a much-ballyhooed Toyota-Ford hybrid pickup partnership unraveled, the ill will lingers. Toyota Motor Corp.'s power-train chief says Ford Motor Co. didn't exactly steal Toyota's hallmark technology. But he insists his counterparts in Dearborn, Mich., milked the exchange for all they could before abruptly ending talks with Toyota's blueprints in hand. Now the race is on between two champions: one in hybrids, the other in pickups.