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64 ANNUAL REPORT 2007
Toyota Milestones
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.
1930s
1933 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
1940s
1947 Domestic production reaches 100,000 vehicles
1950s
1950 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.
1960s
1961 Launch of the Publica
1966 Launch of the Corolla
1970s
1972 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.
1980s
1982
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.
1990s
1992 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
21st Century
2000 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
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
21st Century
A1 prototype passenger car
Koromo plant’s production line
First Crown for U.S. export
First-generation Corolla
Hybrid vehicle, first-generation
Prius
Cumulative domestic production
reaches 100 million vehicles