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.
Contents
* 1 Company overview
* 2 Logo and branding
o 2.1 Marketing
o 2.2 Sports
* 3 Leadership
* 4 Company strategy
o 4.1 Operations
o 4.2 Worldwide presence
+ 4.2.1 North America
* 5 Product line
o 5.1 Electric technology
+ 5.1.1 Plug-in hybrids
+ 5.1.2 All-electric vehicles
o 5.2 Cars
+ 5.2.1 SUVs and crossovers
+ 5.2.2 Pickup trucks
+ 5.2.3 Luxury-type vehicles
* 6 Motorsport
o 6.1 TRD
* 7 Non-automotive activities
o 7.1 Aerospace
o 7.2 Philanthropy
o 7.3 Higher education
o 7.4 Robotics
o 7.5 Finance
o 7.6 Agricultural biotechnology
* 8 Financial information
o 8.1 Government bailouts
* 9 Production and sales numbers
* 10 Environmental record
* 11 History
o 11.1 Recent company developments
+ 11.1.1 2007–2011 financial crisis
+ 11.1.2 2009–2010 vehicle recalls
+ 11.1.3 2011 Workers Strike in France
* 12 See also
* 13 References
* 14 External links
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