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Before that, it struggled against a crisis of massive recalls in the U.S. over defective floor mats, gas pedals and brakes, involving millions of vehicles, some recalled over and over, that hurt its reputation for quality. Toyota officials have vowed to scrutinize quality, and have held back product development to minimize recalls. From the middle of last year, it was hit by another kind of problem -- a widespread boycott of Japanese products, including Toyota cars, in China over a territorial dispute. But sales growth in other parts of the world, including the U.S. and Asian nations such as Indonesia and India, was more than enough to offset such losses. Toyota is planning to sell 9.91 million vehicles globally in 2013, putting it back on track toward its earlier goal of 10 million vehicles
-- a target that it had made a special effort to play down after its recall crisis.
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