The top song in 1998 was My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion. Microsoft founded in the mid seventies by Bill Gates became the world largest company. Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House. The Senate Majority leader was Trent Lott a Republican from Mississippi. The Democratic President from Arkansas Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal was raging. The first lady Hillary Clinton called the allegations against her husband “a right wing conspiracy”. The Denver Broncos won the Supper Bowl. The number of words increased in 1998 as a drug to combat impotence, Viagra was approved. Pfizer sold a $1,000,000,000 worth of the little blue pill the first year. A war costing hundreds of millions of dollars between two of the poorest countries in the world Ethiopia and Eritrea began.

In 1998 Toyota introduced Sienna. A Minivan still manufactured today. After the 1997 Previa redesigned, Toyota stopped selling the Previa in North America. Opting instead to replace it with Sienna. The five door eight passengers Sienna comes equipped with front wheel drive or four-wheel drive. Both The redesigned Previa and the Sienna are built on the Camry platform. Although the first generational Sienna sold in the United States was manufactured in Kentucky, today Sienna roll off the assembly line in Princeton, Indiana. Sienna competitors include Chrysler Pacifica, Dodge Grand Caravan, Honda Odyssey and Kia Sedona.