Toyota

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History of Toyota

Toyota Corporation, called in Japanese Jidosha Kabushiki-gaisha, is the third world manufacturer of automobiles.

In he held the seat #1, although some enforced revisions been made to some of its with manufacturing defects. In the earthquake at the beginning of 2011 in affected them. Despite the incident, it is still recognized as one of the reliable brands.

It is also one of powerful multinational companies in the and along with Honda and make up the big three of the Japanese If, it is present in other sectors, as financial services, agricultural manufacturing automatic looms and (its initial activity) machines and even development of

Its slogan is Moving Forward forward) or It’s time to forward (is time to go forward).

He has in its brands Lexus, Scion and and Daihatsu.

Beginning of Toyota

was founded in September 1933 by Toyoda, when the company existing Toyoda Automatic decided to create a new division to the production of vehicles. In 1934, produced their first type Am used in the A1 model in May and the G1 truck in August of the same It was established as independent company in

During the second world they began to produce for the Imperial Japanese army. plant was not spared from bombed by the Allied troops, before the end of the conflict.

First Toyota model

cars production started in with the model SA. In 1957 the vehicle exported to United the Crown, and the American and Brazilian were established. The first car outside Japan was a Land FJ-251, built in São Paulo in May 1959.

Expansion of Toyota

began to expand in the 1960s, to a new research and development planning. At the end of decade, had already established a presence, and it had exported the millionth of a Toyota car. Growth throughout the 1970’s. In 1984, joined NUMMI, the New United Manufacturing, Inc. Thus to wool new brands in the late 80 as Lexus (a division of luxury).

With a significant presence in it was decided to create a foundation in the Kingdom. Bases were created in Indiana, Virginia and Tianjin (China). The UFJ (United of Japan) was formed in 2001. organization was accused of corruption, by providing money to the Yakuza The UFJ suffered considerable losses of and being one of the largest shareholders of affected the automaker. As a result of crisis, the UFJ had to merge again to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.

In together with the subsidiary Toyota produced a total of 8, 54 an amount apparently elevated, lower by roughly 500,000 of General Motors production same year. As every in the industry, Toyota has also falls in sales. In March it was forced to cut its production by more 50%, to reduce their and face off against the adverse

Toyota technology

Toyota has some innovative technologies to the sector, as the first parked automatic transmission of eight guide traffic in real-time remapping of dynamic route, control 4 zones with among others.

Currently, the invests large sums in of the development and research of vehicles of like the Toyota Prius, a system based.

Recent controversy with cars

Toyota has recently one of the biggest scandals in the history of the industry. In January 2010, he call review 2.3 million in the United States, and NHTSA that it could not sell those models in yankee A serious fault was presented in units: a suspected spontaneous cause 12 deaths.

Europe that similar revisions are out. The defective models Avalon, Corolla, Camry, Sequoia, Matrix, Tunfra and in versions from 2007 2010.

Toyota plants

Toyota has its headquarters in Aichi, and in Bunkyo, both in Japan. It has many factories and offices the globe.

It has plants of manufacturing or Assembly in the States, Colombia, Japan, Canada, Indonesia, Poland, Africa, Turkey, United France, Brazil, Pakistan, Argentina, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Thailand, China, and the Philippines.