Toyota

Toyota Motor Corporation or Toyota for short, is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer.

It is the world's largest automaker by revenue (USD $215.62 billion), production, sales (first half 2007: 4.72 million6) and profit ($15.09 billion7) in front of General Motors. Toyota in the year 2005 had made enough, on profits alone, to buy out the Ford Company. Toyota owns and operates Toyota, Lexus, Scion, has a majority shareholding in Daihatsu Motors (a minicar manufacturer, that includes the hybrid vehicle technology Daihatsu Mild Hybrid System)8, Hino Motors (a manufacturer of commercial trucks, including hybrid vehicles) 9 and has minority shareholdings in Fuji Heavy Industries (a manufacturer of Subaru brand cars), Isuzu Motors (the commercial truck manufacturer) and in Yamaha Motors the engine, motor cycle and marine craft manufacturer. The company includes 522 subsidiaries.

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Toyota road car timeline, North American market, 1980s-present
Type	1980s										1990s										2000s
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Subcompact	Tercel			Tercel				Tercel				Tercel				Tercel					Echo						Yaris
		Starlet				Corolla FX						Paseo				Paseo
	Corolla				Corolla				Corolla
Compact														Corolla					Corolla					Corolla
																								Matrix
	Corona			Camry				Camry														Prius
Mid-size																									Prius
													Camry					Camry					Camry					Camry
																				Camry Solara					Camry Solara
Full-size	Cressida	Cressida				Cressida				Cressida						Avalon					Avalon					Avalon
Sport compact				Corolla GT-S
	Celica		Celica				Celica				Celica				Celica						Celica
Sports	Celica Supra		Celica Supra					Supra						Supra
Roadster					MR2							MR2								MR2 Spyder

The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spinoff from his father's (Sakichi Toyoda) company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. In 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product Type A engine and its first passenger car (the Toyota AA) in 1936. It is headquartered in Toyota, Aichi and Bunkyo Tokyo, Japan. It also provides financial services through its division Toyota Financial Services and also creates robots besides automobiles. The company along with the original Toyota Industries form bulk of the Toyota Group.

Toyota together with its half owned subsidiary Daihatsu, is the world's largest seller of cars for the first half of 2007 selling 4.72 million vehicles, ending General Motors' 76 year reign as the world's best selling marque. 11 Toyota plans to produce 9.4 million vehicles in 2007.12. It plans to sell 10.4 million automobiles in 2008, which would make a record for an automaker to sell more than 10 million in a year.