Toyota Develops New Plant Species

oznigot writes "Yes, that's Toyota, the car company. In what appears to be a publicity stunt to promote their hybrid vehicle technology Toyota has developed a new species of plant. Of the Cherry Sage shrub family, the new plant absorbs nitrogen oxide and other substances from the air better than the original Cherry Sage." Update: 10/16 00:01 GMT by Z : Original link removed.

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It should be noted..

[linux_warp]

It should be noted that the car division of Toyota did not create this plant, but rather a company they own: "Toyota Roof Garden Co". Not sure why it is such great news that a gardening company made a plant..

Re:It should be noted..

[Anonymous Coward]

From the article:

Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday it has developed a new species of the Cherry Sage shrub family

and

will be sold for 380 yen per pot through Toyota Roof Garden Co, a Toyota Motor subsidiary.

So it looks like Toyota Motor Copr did create the plant and will be selling it through a subsidiary.

NOTE: ARTICLE LINK IS GOATSE REDIRECT

[ergo98]

Either someone is very a quick hacker, or this was a pre-planned exploit, but the article redirects to goatse. Now lets watch Slashdot's finest (the so-called editors) take a couple of hours to correct this.