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Kiichiro Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation, was born in 1894. Inheriting the spirit of his father,
Sakichi Toyoda, an inventor of looms, Kiichiro devoted his life to automobile manufacturing, at the time an
unknown field in Japan. After a lot of painstaking work, he completed the A1 prototype passenger car in 1935,
and the history of Toyota Motor Corporation began.
A1 prototype passenger car
First-generation Toyopet Crown
First-generation Corolla
Hybrid vehicle, first-generation Prius
Cumulative domestic production
reaches 100 million vehicles
1930s1933 Automobile research begins at Toyota Automatic Loom Works, Ltd.
1935 Completion of A1 prototype passenger car
Launch of G1 truck
1936 Launch of AA passenger car
1937 Establishment of Toyota Motor Co., Ltd.
1938 Koromo plant (now Honsha plant) begins production
1940s1947 Domestic production reaches 100 thousand vehicles
1950s1950 Establishment of and transfer of sales operations to Toyota Motor
Sales Co., Ltd.
1955 Launch of the Toyopet Crown
1957 Export of the first made-in-Japan passenger car to the United States
(the Crown)
Establishment of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
1960s1961 Launch of the Publica
1966 Launch of the Corolla
1970s1972 Cumulative total domestic production reaches 10 million vehicles
1973 Establishment of Calty Design Research, Inc.
1977 Establishment of Toyota Technical Center, U.S.A., Inc. (now TEMA*)
* TEMA has overall control of R&D and production in North America.
1980s1982 Toyota Motor Co., Ltd., and Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd., merge to
become Toyota Motor Corporation
1984 Joint venture company (NUMMI) established with General Motors
begins production in the United States
1987 Establishment of Toyota Technical Center of Europe (now TME*)
1988 Kentucky plant (now TMMK) begins production in the United States
1989 Launch of Lexus in North America
* TME has overall control of operations in Europe.
1990s1992 Establishment of Toyota Supplier Support Center in the United States
U.K. plant (TMUK) begins production
1997 Launch of the Prius hybrid vehicle
1999 Toyota Motor Corporation lists on the New York and London stock
exchanges
Cumulative total domestic production reaches 100 million vehicles
2000s2000 Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor Co., Ltd., begins production
2002 Establishment of the Toyota Institute, a personnel training facility
Toyota Motor Corporation participates in F1, the pinnacle of motorsports
2005 Joint venture company established with PSA Peugeot Citroën begins
production in the Czech Republic
Launch of Lexus in Japan
2007 Global cumulative sales of Toyota hybrid vehicles top one million
68 TOYOTA •Annual Report 2008 •
Toyota Milestones
Management & Corporate Information
Koromo plant at the time of
establishment