Toyota Ten Facts

Here are 10 facts about one of the top selling car brands in Nigeria. 

10) Toyota Motor Corporation is 77 years old.

9) Toyota Exports to Nigeria commenced in February 1959

8) The luxury vehicle division of Toyota is Lexus. The original form of the name Lexus is Alexis.

7) A city in Japan, Koromo, renamed itself Toyota city, 22 years after the Founding of Toyota.

6) Toyota Corolla is the company's bestselling Automobile.

5) The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) wrote Toyota over the safety of Hiace Buses after a spate of Accidents.

4) Saved by a war. Toyota was almost out of business until the US ordered 5,000 vehicles for the Korean War.

3) Toyota was involved in the creation of Kiribo, a Robot Astronaut.

2) Between Sept 2007 and Feb 2011, Toyota had a total of 17 major Vehicle recalls.

1) The Toyoda Family of Japan were originally Textile Manufacturers, they sold the patent of their automatic loom technology to the Platt Brothers of UK. The family invested the proceeds into the Automobile business.

The rest is history.

Funfact- The Toyoda Family maintain the Textile business till this day!

  

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