Saturday, November 21, 2009
History of Toyota
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spin off from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Toyota is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi and in Tokyo. Three years earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and, in 1936, its first passenger car, the Toyota AA. Toyota also owns and operates Lexus and Scion brands and has a majority shareholding stake in Daintiness and Hino Motors, and minority shareholdings in Fuji Heavy Industries, Isuzu Motors, Yamaha Motors, and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. The company includes 522 subsidiaries.Toyota Motor Corporation (including Toyota Financial Services) and Toyota Industries form the bulk of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world.
8 comments:
everyday we see so many Toyota car but i did't know anything about it..... its interesting ....
keep it up:)
thanx..........u will get so many information about different kinds of things..........
hope to see some more info about different product...
the largest selling car in the history. good to know some information about its background.
The photos of the earlier models are pretty interesting. I love vintage cars...
Thanx................
it has something to know the secret of popularity of toyota...
right..........
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