Motor Vehicle Manufacturers of Japan - Honda, Toyota, Nissan Motors, Mazda, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Datsun, Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Honda, Toyota, Nissan Motors, Mazda, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Datsun, Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru, Infiniti, Yamaha Motor Company, UD Trucks, Hino Motors, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Motorcycle & Engine, Dome, Duesen Bayern, Central Motors, Mitsuoka, Prince Motor Company, Nissan Shatai, Asahi. Excerpt: Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Jid sha KK, IPA: ) TYO: 7203, LSE: TYT, NYSE: TM, commonly known simply as Toyota and abbreviated as TMC, is a multinational automaker headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In 2010, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 317,734 people worldwide . TMC is the world's largest automobile manufacturer by sales and production. The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. 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 Motor Corporation group companies are Toyota (including the Scion brand), Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino Motors, along with several "non-automotive" companies. TMC is part of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world. Toyota Motor Corporation is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi and in Tokyo. Its Tokyo head office is located at 1-4-18 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8701, Japan. Nagoya Office at 4-7-1 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. In addition to manufacturing automobiles, Toyota provides financial services through its Toyota Financial Services division and also builds robots. Toyota headquarters in Toyota City, JapanVehicles were originally sold under the name "Toyoda" ( ), from the family name of the company's founder, Kiichir Toyoda. In September 1936, the company ran a public competition to design a new logo. Out...