history of toyota name, Vehicles were originally sold under the name "Toyoda", from the family name of the company's founder, Kiichirō Toyoda. The newly formed word was trademarked and the company was registered in August 1937 as the "Toyota Motor Company".
[14] In predominantly Chinese speaking countries using simplified Chinese characters (e.g. China), Toyota is known as "丰田"[15](pronounced as "Fēngtián" in Mandarin Chinese ). From September 1947, Toyota's small-sized vehicles were sold under the name "Toyopet" .[16]In 1982, the Toyota Motor Company and Toyota Motor Sales merged into one company, the Toyota Motor Corporation. Toyota also began production of the world's best-selling hybrid car, the Prius, in 1997.
With a major presence in Europe, due to the success of Toyota Team Europe, the corporation decided to set up TMME, Toyota Motor Europe Marketing & Engineering, to help market vehicles in the continent
As a result of Japan's banking crisis, UFJ merged with the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi to become the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
On December 7, 2004, a US press release was issued stating that Toyota would be offering Sirius Satellite Radios. As of 2008, all Toyota and Scion models have either standard or available XM radio kits. Major Lexus dealerships have been offering satellite radio kits for Lexus vehicles since 2005, in addition to factory-equipped satellite radio models.
This plant was originally intended to build the Toyota Highlander, but Toyota decided to use the plant in Princeton, Indiana, USA, instead.
