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The 1936 Toyota AA, the first vehicle produced by the company while it was still a department of Toyota Industries. Vehicles were originally sold under the name "Toyoda" (トヨダ), from the family name of the company's founder, Kiichirō Toyoda. In September 1936, the company ran a public competition to design a new logo.
Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent and separate company in 1937. Although the founding family's name was written in the Kanji "豊田" (rendered as "Toyoda"), the company name was changed to a similar word in katakana - トヨタ (rendered as "Toyota") because the latter has 8 strokes which is regarded as a lucky number in East Asian culture. [3]
The Stout was the first Toyota available in South Africa, beginning in 1961. Joint venture, licensed, and contract factories ... it was the first Toyota’s assembly ...
Albert Wessels (1 October 1908 - 22 July 1991) was a South African industrialist and the founder of Toyota South Africa. Toyota South Africa can trace its roots back to 1961, when Wessels obtained a permit to import ten Toyopet Stout pickup trucks (popularly known as bakkies in South Africa) from Japan. Toyota products proved to be very popular ...
Toyota reported its profits for the last quarter of 2013 this week, and the numbers are. Sales of the all-new Toyota Corolla have been strong, but that's not why Toyota's profits have surged in ...
The Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation initially acquired 27.8% of the shares in TSAM in 1996, increased this share to 75% in 2002 and finally to 100% in 2009. [1] [3] [4] In 2006, Toyota SA surpassed BMW South Africa as the country's largest automobile exporter. [5] In 2014, Toyota had 8,500 employees in South Africa. [6]
Kyoho kai group – Auto parts company – 211 companies. Kyouei kai group – Logistic/facility company – 123 companies. KDDI (Toyota owns 11.09% of the company); Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Toyota owns 34.6% and is the largest single shareholder in the company; 36.9% of the stock are directly and indirectly (through TV Asahi Holdings Corporation) owned by Asahi Shimbun, making it the ...
Toyota FCHV-1: 1997 First FCHV Toyota FCHV-2: 1999 Second FCHV Toyota FCHV-3: 2001 Third FCHV Toyota FCHV-4: 2002 Fourth FCHV Toyota FCHV-adv: 2008 Fifth FCHV Toyota FCV: 2013 Fuel cell hybrid vehicle Toyota FCV-R: 2011 Fuel cell hybrid vehicle, entered production as the Toyota Mirai: Toyota FCV Plus: 2015 Fuel cell hybrid vehicle Toyota FCX-80 ...