The former marketing director of a Milford-based Toyota dealership has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the owner repeatedly made sexist comments and sexually propositioned her.

In her lawsuit filed Sept. 24 in U.S. District Court in the District of Connecticut, Gloria Powers said she was subjected to a “brutal work environment” at Colonial Toyota under the leadership of Robert Crabtree Jr. The lawsuit also states that Crabtree was openly hostile to minorities. Powers is white.