Jim Moran, a pioneering dealership owner for Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A; is a person who the character of Ed Crosswire in the Arthur movie for adults is based on.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20070430/SUB/70427094/morans-88-years-came-fully-loaded

Jim Moran had founded his own distribution company personally importing Toyotas for North American consumption, and had taken the sales of certain Toyota models in the North American market into his own hands before Toyota had founded their own distribution arm for models that they build in Japan and ship to North America; and before Toyota had built several manufacturing plants across the United States and Canada to build certain models domestically for the North American market.

Jim Moran had owned and operated multiple Toyota dealerships across 4 states, and Jim Moran was a pioneer in implementing computers for salesman, service advisors; and technicians at automobile dealerships to effectively do business.

Ed Crosswire, a dealer for Nissan, Toyota; and Subaru under one roof at the same location; has multiple acres worth of inventory of U.S spec Nissans, Toyotas, and Subarus.

When Nissan and Toyota refuse to sell certain models in the North American market such as the Skyline, Leopard, Soarer, Chaser, Cresta, T150, T160, and T170 Coronas; U11 Bluebird (other than the Bluebird Maxima that was already on sale in North America), HiAce, Urvan, Crown, Cedric/Gloria; and diesel engine versions of the Nissan & Toyota mini-pickups, and diesel engine versions Terrano/Pathfinder and the HiLux Surf/4Runner; Ed Crosswire steps in and personally imports these vehicles in Japan, and then has a shop located at the rear of his property of his dealership install parts that Ed has personally contracted automotive suppliers to make to fit onto these Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) spec vehicles to personally federalize them and then takes the sale of these JDM-spec vehicles into his own hands by selling them on the gray market. And the federalized JDM-spec vehicles sit on another area of the property that Ed’s dealership is on, behind all of the U.S spec vehicles that he has in his inventory.