PLANO, Texas, Oct. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- "When pigs
fly" typically means it will never happen. But in the creative mind
of seven-year-old Sydney Bella Yian
Cui from Mercer Island,
Washington, it COULD happen to save the environment, and it
DID happen when her "Toyota Magical Piggies" artwork received a
"Best Finalist" award at the World Contest in Tokyo, Japan earlier this month.
This past spring, Cui's artwork was also recognized as the U.S.
Gold Award Winner for her age category. "Pigs are my favorite
animals," she said. "In my drawing, they are inhaling polluted air
and turning it into love and hope. It is my dream that flying
pig-shaped cars are made by Toyota to help the environment in the
future."
The question "If you could design a car to make the world a
better place, what would it look like?" is answered each year by
thousands of young people like Cui who design and submit their
hand-drawn artwork to their respective national contests. Last
year, 953,064 entries were received in more than 86 countries
worldwide.
This year, Toyota presents the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest in
the United States. Artwork by U.S.
youth, ages 4-15, may be submitted from November 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020. Contest information such as
official rules, artwork guidelines, and entry forms is now
available at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
About Toyota: Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of
the cultural fabric in the U.S. and North
America for more than 60 years, and is committed to
advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota
and Lexus brands. During that time, Toyota has created a
tremendous value chain as our teams have contributed to world-class
design, engineering, and assembly of more than 38 million cars and
trucks in North America, where we
have 14 manufacturing plants, 15 including our joint venture in
Alabama (10 in the U.S.), and
directly employ more than 47,000 people (over 36,000 in the
U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (nearly 1,500 in
the U.S.) sold 2.8 million cars and trucks (2.4 million in the
U.S.) in 2018.
Through the Start Your Impossible campaign, Toyota highlights
the way it partners with community, civic, academic and
governmental organizations to address our society's most pressing
mobility challenges. We believe that when people are free to move,
anything is possible. For more information about Toyota,
visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
Toyota Media Line: 469-292-5100
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