Can anyone tell me the history of Toyota car?

Question

I need to do a project. can you tell me the history of toyota please.

something like, when it start, how many markets in US, how many car sold each year, safely...... Thank you!

Answer 1

Researching the Lean System and it's influence on Toyota's manufacturing process is a great place to start. Because American auto companies rejected W. Edward Demings view of the Lean System (around 1950), he presented this information to Japanese companies and the rest is history...

By the way, this is Toyota's best year ever: http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2006-12-01-auto-sales_x.htm?csp=34

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The official Toyota history is, like that of most companies, fairly glossy and bare-bones. An article by Konrad Schreier, printed in the Complete Book of Toyota (a bit of a misnomer since the book is mainly a bunch of reprints of then-current, gushing, “no criticism allowed” car reviews), brings up a large number of missing pieces.
Sakichi Toyoda, a prolific inventor, created the Toyoda Automatic Loom company based on his groundbreaking designs, one of which was licensed to a British concern for 1 million yen; this money was used to help found Toyota Motor Company, which produced its first engine in 1934 (the Type A), its first car and truck in 1935 (the Model A1 and G1, respectively), and its second car design in 1936 (the model AA). The government supported the local motor industry partly because of the military applications.

In the 1930s, when the Japanese military started fighting in Manchuria, they used mainly foreign-made trucks; the Depression made money scarce, though, and mass production of autos within Japan would reduce costs, provide needed jobs, and make the country less dependent on imports. In 1936, Japan demanded that, for foreign automakers, a majority of stockholders, half the ownership, and all officers had to be Japanese; in 1939, imports were practically halted. In this atmosphere, the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works began to experiment, with a prototype ready in 1935, and the sale of patent rights to a weaving machine providing much of the necessary funding for experimentation and tooling. Toyoda's car operations were placed in the hands of Kiichiro Toyoda, Sakichi Toyoda’s son.

Toyoda Motor Company (the name would be changed to Toyota after World War II; both are good transliterations) was split off from the loom works to make the Type A1, renamed to Model AA. From 1936 to 1943, only 1,7,57 cars were made – 1,404 sedans and 353 phaetons (model AB), but Toyoda found more success building trucks. By 1937, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler had already been established in roughly their current forms in the US, and most of the current European automakers had already been started. (Some of these early details are from http://www.geocities.com/toyotageek/).

The first Toyoda truck was roughly a one-ton to one and a half-ton design, conventional in nature, using (after 1936) an overhead valve six-cylinder engine that appears to have been a clone of the Chevrolet engine of the time: indeed, a large number of parts were interchangeable, and Toyoda trucks captured in the war were serviced by the Allies with Chevrolet components. There was also a forty-horsepower four cylinder model, very similar to the six cylinder in design but rather underpowered for a truck with a full ton of capacity.

Answer 4

It started out as a Japanese Sewing company (I have no clue what that is). If you want a interesting report do the history of Chevy.

Answer 5

I found it at the corporate website.

http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/history/index.html

For North America

http://www.toyota.com/about/operations/numbers/index.html#