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The Toyota Motor Corporation, or simply call Toyota is a Japanese multinational company. Toyota became in 2007 the first global car manufacturer General Motors forward, and speculates that in 2008 there will be a production and sales approximate 9 , 8 million vehicles along with sales crecientes.Estas predictions have been fulfilled, although the number of revisions and forced quality problems also have done. [1] is one of the “big three” challenging Japanese carmakers including American Honda Motor and Nissan Motors with great success. It produces cars, trucks, buses and robots and the eighth largest company in the world. The company is located in Toyota, Aichi, and Bunkyo, Tokyo Japan with factories and offices around the world.
The company was founded in 1933 by Kiichiro Toyoda. Since then, Toyota has become one of the Japanese companies more profitable and more successful and one of the leading corporations in the automotive industry introducing the first parked in the auto industry commercially available (Advanced Parking Guidance System), a box of eight-speed automatic changes, guide traffic in real time with reallocation Dynamic route and a climate control of four zones with infrared technology in their models of the Lexus division [2]. It is also one of the few car companies that has been extensively promoted and cars based on a hybrid fuel technology as a model Prius, Toyota and even in the division of Lexus luxury cars. Toyota manufacturer consistently listed as one of the most reliable cars in the world [3] according to surveys and analysis.
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Introduction
Toyota Pavilion at Expo Aichi
Toyota Pavilion at Expo Aichi
Toyota’s headquarters is located in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Toyota also provides financial services through its subsidiary, Toyota Financial Services and participates in other lines of business. It manufactures vehicles sold in the United States under the brands of Toyota, Scion and Lexus. Toyota also has major investments in Daihatsu and Hino, and 8.7% of Fuji Heavy Industries, which manufactures Subaru vehicles.
In 2005, Toyota, combined with its subsidiary Daihatsu Motor Company, produced 8.54 million vehicles, about 500,000 less than the number produced by GM that year. In July 2006, Toyota passed Ford in car sales, although Ford regained its lead over Toyota in the next month and lose it again because of high gas prices. Toyota has a large market share in the United States, Europe and Africa and is the market leader in Australia. It also has significant market shares in several countries of Southeast Asia high growth. [1]
In the Fortune Global 500, is the sixth largest company in the world displacing Chevron Company in all lists in terms of income and growth and in the 2000 Forbes Global 2006 is the twelfth largest company in the world. He has been consistently gaining market share in the United States, while shrinking sales of Ford and General Motors in the United States.
Its slogan is Moving forward (moving forward) or It’s time to move forward (It’s time to go ahead) in the United States and several countries in the world. In Europe its common slogan is Today. Tomorrow. Toyota (Hoy. Tomorrow. Toyota). In some countries like Australia, the slogan is Oh, what a feeling! (Oh, what feeling!) That was the slogan of Toyota in the United States during 1980.
History
The Toyota Motor Corporation was founded in September 1933 when Toyoda Automatic Loom created a new division dedicated to the production of automobiles under the leadership of the son of the founder, Kiichiro Toyoda. Shortly thereafter, the division produced its first engine type A in 1934, which was first used in the model A1 in May 1935 and the G1 truck in August 1935. The production of the Model AA began in 1936.
Although the Toyota group is best known today for its cars, is still in business and still produce textile looms machines, which are not completely computerized, and electric sewing machines that are available globally.
Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent company in 1937. Although the surname of the founding family is Toyoda (??), the company name was changed to signify the working life of the founders of family life, simplify the pronunciation, and to give the company a happy beginning. Toyota (???) is considered more fortunate than Toyoda (??) in Japan, where it is considered to eight as a number of luck, and eight is the number of strokes needed to write Toyota in Katakana. In Chinese, the company and its vehicles are still talking by the characters equivalent (Traditional Chinese:??; Simplified Chinese:??), reading with china.
During World War II the company was devoted to the production of trucks for the Imperial Japanese Army. Because of severe shortages in Japan, military trucks were fabricated as simple as possible. For example, the trucks had only one lamp in the centre of the bonnet. The war ended shortly before a scheduled allied bombing in the factories of Toyota in Aichi.
The commercial production of cars began in 1947 with the model SA. In 1950 a separate sales company Toyota Motor Sales Co.. was created (which lasted until July 1982). In April 1956 the Toyopet dealer chain was established. The next year, the Toyota Crown became the first Japanese car exports to the United States and American divisions of Toyota (Toyota Motor Sales Inc.) And Brazilian (Toyota do Brazil SA) were established.
Toyota began to expand in the years 1960 to a new research and development facility in Thailand a division was established, the model was produced diezmillonésimo, a Deming Prize and partnerships with Hino Motors and Daihatsu were also established. At the end of the decade, Toyota had established a global presence, as the company had exported its millionth unit.
The expansion continued throughout the 1970′s. It gave the company its first Quality Control Japanese at the beginning of the decade and established a presence in auto racing.
In 1982, the Toyota Motor Company and Toyota Motor Sales were merged into one company, Toyota Motor Corporation. Two years later, Toyota joined NUMMI, the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. All rights reserved. Toyota then started to establish new brands in the late 1980, with the launch of its Lexus luxury brand in 1989.
With a strong presence in Europe, due to the success of Toyota Team Europe, the corporation decided to create TMME, Toyota Motor Europe Marketing & Engineering, to help sell vehicles in the continent. Two years later, Toyota set up a base in the UK, TMUK, as the cars the company had become very popular among British drivers. It was also established bases in Indiana, Virginia and Tianjin. In 1999, the company decided listed on the New York Stock Exchange and London.
In 2001, Toyo Trust and Banking Toyota merged to form the UFJ, United Financials of Japan, which was accused of corruption by the government for making bad loans to the Yakuza mafia. [Citation needed] The UFJ became one of corporations with the worst losses of money in the world, with the president of Toyota occupy the post of director. [citation needed] At that time, UFJ was one of the largest shareholders of Toyota. As a result of the banking crisis in Japan, UFJ was merged again to become the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
In 2002, Toyota managed to enter a team in Formula 1 and establish joint ventures with French automobile companies Citroen and Peugeot, it was established a year after that Toyota began producing cars in France.
Global Presence
The headquarters of Toyota in Toyota City, Japan
The headquarters of Toyota in Toyota City, Japan
Toyota has factories around the world, manufacturing or assembling vehicles for local markets, including the Corolla. Toyota has manufacturing or assembly plants in the United States, Colombia, Japan, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, France, Brazil, and more recently in Pakistan, India, Argentina, Czech Republic, Mexico , Malaysia, Thailand, China, Venezuela and the Philippines.
The first Toyota built outside Japan was a Land Cruiser FJ-251, built in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in May 1959.
Toyota invests a great deal of resources into investigations of cleaner burning vehicles as the Toyota Prius, based on technology such as the Hybrid Synergy Drive, although the extra costs of hybrid technology does not pose any cost savings for many years. [Citation required ] In 2002, Toyota successfully road tested a new version of the RAV4 which operated with a hydrogen fuel cell. Scientific American named to the company its Business Leader of the Year in 2003 by marketing a hybrid vehicle affordable.
In 2003, Toyota led two of its most popular cars from Japan (including BB) americas, and created a new brand called Scion, meaning a descendant or heir. These cars are aimed at youth and young at heart. They are intended to be customised or used as a simple road cars. Both models, XA (known in Japan as Toyota ist) and XB (known in Japan as Toyota BB) are propelled by a 1.5L DOHC I4 engine. A third model, the Scion tC, was introduced in 2004. Everyone is typically a low price and affordable. Rather than import an existing model from Japan as was done with the XA and XB, the tC was designed specifically for the North American market as a replacement for the Toyota Celica, using the four-cylinder engine and changes in the Toyota Camry, and chassis core European Toyota Avensis.
Toyota is also famous in the industry for its manufacturing philosophy, called the Toyota Production System. The system has been adopted by several companies in the world then.
In 2005, Toyota was the fourth largest automobile company in the world in terms of sales with $ 135,820 million-after General Motors with $ 185,520 million, $ 164,200 million with Ford and DaimlerChrysler with $ 157,130 million. In May 2006, Toyota reached by Daimler Chrysler to third place in total sales in the United States. In June 2006, Toyota surpassed Ford in terms of total sales of vehicles in the United States, although Ford regained its position to Toyota in the next month to lose it again in the first quarter of 2007 Toyota arrebató him first in the world the U.S. General Motors.
Marks
Lexus
Lexus IS-F
Lexus IS-F
Main article: Lexus
Lexus is Toyota brand for luxury car division, Audi and VW for what is or what Lincoln is for Ford. The Lexus vehicles sold in North americas, Middle East, Europe, Africa, americas America, Asia and Oceania in the U.S., Lexus is the brand sold more luxury cars. Until 2005, Lexus vehicles were sold under the Toyota brand in Japan, but since then the Lexus brand was introduced.
Since its debut in 1989, Lexus has developed a reputation for reliability of its vehicles and the quality of their customer service. In 2006, the signing of assessments of clients JD Power named Lexus the most reliable brand in the United States based its survey on vehicle reliability, a measure of more than 47,000 owners of vehicles and the problems experienced in the first three years of vehicle ownership. It was the twelfth consecutive year that Lexus was the highest position. [2] That same year, Consumer Reports also named Lexus the most reliable brand in its annual survey of car reliability of over one million vehicles nationwide. [3 ] In addition, Lexus is in high positions in surveys on the experience of service at dealerships.
Models:
* IS – tourism segment D
* – Tourism segment E
* GS – tourism segment E
* LS – tourism segment F
* RX – sport utility vehicle segment E
* GX – SUV segment E
* LX – SUV segment F
* SC – sports car
Scion
Scion tC
Scion tC
Main article: Scion
Scion is a division of Toyota which operates only in the United States founded in 2003. It is also a mark of Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc. All rights reserved. Currently has three models: the Scion XA, the Xb (both renowned Japanese automobile market, called ist and BB respectively) and tC (a new design based on the Toyota Avensis European market). The long-term goal of Scion is to attract the customers of Generation Y, hoping that empequeñezca the size of Generation X market by 2020. Scion was born Project Genesis Toyota, a failed effort to attract younger buyers to the Toyota brand in the United States. Scion brand is the entry-level Toyota, hovering below Toyota in the line. Scion currently sells its vehicles in the United States, Guam and Puerto Rico, leaving the possibility to expand into more markets.
Models:
* XA
* Xb
* XD
* TC
* Bb
* IST
* Hako
* Rs R-TC
* Sage
* Exile
Daihatsu
Daihatsu OFC-1 (prototype)
Daihatsu OFC-1 (prototype)
Daihatsu (????) is a manufacturer of small cars, especially those segments A and B.
Models:
* Applause
* Charmant
* Charade
* Charade Giro
* Cuore
* Max Cuore
* Compagno
* Copen
* Consort
* Fellow Max
* Midget (also known as Bajaj)
* Watch (also known as Cuore)
* Move
* Naked
* Rocky
* Sirion
* Taft
* Terios
* YRV
* Feroz
* Delta
Toyota
(Note: The models and definitions vary between markets. To realize, see individual models.)
Toyota Tundra
Toyota Tundra
Toyota Altezza
Toyota Altezza
* Aygo
* Yaris / Soluna / Vios / Echo / Platz / Belt
* Probox
* Auris
* Corolla / Altis
* Corolla Verso
* Corolla Levin
* Corolla Fielder
* Aurion
* Prius
* Allion
* Avensis
* Caldina
* Camry
* Solara
* Progres
* Mark X
* Crown
* Avalon
* Century
* Matrix
* RAV4
* Rush
* Highlander
* 4Runner
* Sequoia
* FJ Cruiser
* Land Cruiser
* Land Cruiser Prado
* Feel
* Wish
* Ipsum
* Sienna
* Considers / Tarago / After
* Alphard
* Hilux / Tacoma
* Tundra
* Hiace
* Dyna
* Coaster
* Tercel
* Cressida
* Starlet
Line IMV vehicles (mainly to Southeast Asia)
* Fortune
* Hilux
* Hiace
* Innova
* Avanza
Historical Models
Toyota brand
* 2000GT (1965-1970)
* Celica (October 1970 – april 2006 in Japan, 1971-2005 for export)
* Starlet (1973-1999)
* Corolla (1973-2005)
* Crown and Carina (succeeded by Prize, Allion, Avensis)
* Mark II (succeeded by Mark X) and Chaser Cresta
* Cressida (succeeded by Avalon)
* Supra
* Town Ace / Lite Ace (succeeded by Noah / Voxy)
* Walk / Cynos (1991-1998)
* Tercel (1978-1999)
* Stout (succeeded by Dyna)
* Toyota Mr2
* Revo / Kijang / Unser / Z-Ace (succeeded by Innova, sold as Kijang Innova in Indonesia)
* Qualis
Hybrid Technology
Main article: Hybrid Synergy Drive
The Prius has become the best-selling hybrid car in americas. Toyota now has three hybrid vehicles in its line (Prius, Highlander and Camry). The popular Toyota Sienna minivan is supposed to join the line hybrid in 2010, and in 2030 Toyota makes plans to take its entire line of cars, trucks and SUVs with the option of Hybrid Synergy Drive.
Lexus also has its own hybrid line, consisting of the GS450h and the RX400h.