''Fujitsu Ten of Japan is a major supplier of electronic gadgetry to the likes of Toyota and General Motors, but its Eclipse brand is a significant force in its own right.''
Investors Chronicle ''GOOD WEEK, BAD WEEK'' 05/02/2002
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Toyota Turns Up The Sound
05/18/2002
Illawarra Mercury
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Copyright of John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd
A promotional Toyota Corolla Levin will be heard more than seen when it does the rounds of audio retailers across Australia in the months ahead.
This purpose-built boom-box Corolla is fitted with an Eclipse CD tuner, five high-power amplifiers, three large subwoofers and eight other speakers.
Eclipse is the premium brand of Fujitsu Ten who is the exclusive audio supplier for the Toyota range of vehicles.
Along with developing the audio system for the new Camry to be released later in the year, Fujitsu Ten has recently launched into the retail market with its Eclipse brand, said Fujitsu Ten 's senior manager sales and marketing Dawie Aker.
''Toyota Corolla has incredible brand recognition, so we're very confident that its high profile will help promote the Eclipse product in the car audio market,'' Mr Aker said.
To install such a large audio system for promotional purposes required extensive modification to the car, he said.
The Corolla's sound source is the Eclipse CD8061 CD tuner, which recently took out the 2002 Sound and Image magazine award for car audio head unit of the year.
The unit includes 16-volt balanced line outputs and feeds five 620-watt 33240 two-channel Eclipse power amplifiers.
The amplifiers pump three back-seat-mounted 12-inch aluminium subwoofers that each have a music power handling capacity of 1000 watts.
Front staging is achieved with a three-speaker cross-over system made up of a six-and-a-half inch driver, a five-inch driver and a silk dome tweeter to enhance top-end reproduction.
Six-and-a-half inch point source speakers provide rear fill.
The Corolla will appear at the Auto Salon car exhibitions in Melbourne on July 27-28 and Brisbane on September 7-8.
It will also feature at the 2002 Sydney Motor Show during October and dealer days
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