Japanese design, global production.
Toyota grew from automatic looms into vehicle production in the 1930s. Its product development is inseparable from the Toyota Production System and decades of hybrid engineering.
- 1933
An automobile division
Toyoda Automatic Loom Works starts vehicle development.
- 1937
Toyota Motor is established
The automotive operation becomes its own company.
- Today
Global production, Japanese engineering
Plant and VIN—not the badge—determine a vehicle’s origin.



