Kiichiro Toyoda
The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spin-off from his father’s company Toyota Industries to create automobiles.
The 1936 model
It created, first as a department of Toyota Industries, its first product Type A engine in 1934 and its first passenger car in 1936. It is headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.
Toyota together with its half owned subsidiary Daihatsu had the top sales for the first quarter of 2007 selling 2.35 million vehicles. Toyota plans to produce 9.4 million vehicles in 2007.
Toyota’s fisrt Insignia
Founding and earlier history
The Toyota Motor Corporation was founded in September 1933 when Toyoda Automatic Loom created a new division devoted to the production of automobiles under the direction of the founder’s son, Kiichiro Toyoda.
Soon thereafter, the division produced its first Type A Engine in 1934, which was used in the first Model A1 passenger car in May 1935 and the G1 truck in August 1935.
Production of the Model AA passenger car started in 1936. Early vehicles bear a striking resemblance to the Dodge Power Wagon and Chevrolet, with some parts actually interchanging with their American originals. The company was founded in 1933 by Kiichiro Toyoda as an offshoot of Toyoda Automatic Loom Company, under the encouragement of the Japanese government, which needed domestic vehicle production partly due to the worldwide money shortage and partly due to the war with China.
Although the Toyota Group is best known today for its cars, it is still in the textile business and still makes automatic looms, which are now fully computerized, and electric sewing machines which are available worldwide.
15 Facts about Toyota
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The company, Toyota Motor Corporation was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda .
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Its interesting to know that the founder was formerly into textile production ,infact Toyota Motor Corporation started out as a division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works.Well the company is still in the textile business till this day.
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The Toyota logo is not just random oval shapes but it actually spells out T-O-Y-O-T-A .
Check out the image below :
Are you surprised ? .
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The brand was formerly “Toyoda” just like the founders name , take a peak at their previous logo :
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Toyota fully owns Lexus and Scion .They also own stakes in Daihatsu and Subaru .
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In terms of money Toyota is the 8th biggest company in the world as at 2016 .
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In 2013 they broke a world record , , they produced more than 10 million cars in one year .8.
The Toyota Corolla has 12 generations and has sold about 40 million(cars) worldwide .
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At a time as part of publicity for it’s then new corona design, when Japan got its first free way ,They took three cars out for a spin and drove 100,000 miles non stop back and forth between Osaka and Nagoya .
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The legendary 2000GT broke all sorts of records , one I particularly love is,it ran 130 mph , for 78 consecutive hours partially through a tropical storm.Now thats wicked !!! , don’t drool over this baby except you have about 500 million Naira .
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Its not surprising that they built their first hybrid car in 1968 !! and it used a turbine engine .
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Even though they started making hybrids early , the Prius was the first massed produced hybrid from them.And they sold the 1,000,000 th in 1997 .
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Toyota developed a complex traffic “app” over 40 years ago.In the early 1970s, the Comprehensive Automobile Traffic Control System featured a control room like you would see in a old sci-fi movie. It practically monitored traffic and let any car with a receiver on their end know which streets were grid-locked, so drivers could use alternate routes.
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This guys don’t just give up.It took 450 prototypes to get the first Lexus right ,and they had to make 50 full-scale clay models .Inspiring !!
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They were so successful that Japan had to name one of its cities after them in 1959 .
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