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The Toyota Automobile Museum (トヨタ博物館, Toyota Hakubutsukan) is a large museum showcasing the history of Toyota as an automobile manufacturer. In addition to displaying its own vehicles that Toyota has manufactured over the years, numerous vehicles from other manufacturers of various makes are also being displayed in the museum.
An automotive museum is a museum that explores the history of automotive-related transportation. Bold – museums owned by automotive manufacturers Italics – no longer open to public access, excluding private or invitation-only collections that were never intended for public access
Torrance Historical Society & Museum Torrance: South Bay: Local history [25] Toyota USA Automobile Museum: Torrance: South Bay: Automobile: Toyota automobiles and history, open by appointment only University Art Museum: Long Beach: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Art: on the campus of California State University, Long Beach: USC Pacific Asia Museum ...
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) is the operating subsidiary that oversees all operations of the Toyota Motor Corporation in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Its operations include research and development, manufacturing, sales, marketing, after sales and corporate functions, which are controlled by TMNA but sometimes executed by other subsidiaries and holding companies.
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 museum, which was maintained by the TMS Corporate Communications Department. was intended to preserve a collection of historical models milestone vehicles representing Toyota’s history in the United States. The museum's inventory consisted of more than 100 Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles, dating from 1958 to 2013.
The Toyota FCV-R fuel cell concept car was unveiled at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show. The FCV-R sedan seats four and has a fuel cell stack including a 70 MPa high-pressure hydrogen tank, which can deliver a range of 435 mi (700 km) under the Japanese JC08 test cycle. Toyota said the car was planned for launch in about 2015. [135]