Japan as a major manufacturer in the world’s largest car manufacturer and exporter and home to six of the ten largest automobile manufacturers in the world. The Japanese began the construction of automobiles around the early 1900s by the zaibatsu or conglomerates, and began to gain worldwide popularity in the 1960s because of their availability and reliability. Popular Japanese car brands include Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi.
Toyota
Founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation, the son of the founder of Toyota Industries, Sakichi Toyoda founded. The company was created specifically for the production of cars and has grown into a multinational company with larger and smaller stakes in other companies, the automobile manufacturing with 522 branches. Today, Toyota is the world’s largest manufacturer of automobiles, which also includes the Lexus brand for its range of luxury cars while the Scion brand is aimed at the market for Generation Y.
The long list includes the Toyota car models:
Toyota Crown – the first model to be introduced into the U.S. market in 1957
Toyota Corolla – a compact car, which was named as the best selling model worldwide in 1997
Toyota Camry – First, a compact car, is it a mid-size car with a coupe and convertible and finally a separate line in the 1999 Camry Solara
Toyota Prius – the first produced in series hybrid-electric car in 1997 and sold worldwide by 2001
Toyota Auris – compact sedan, available in 3-door and 5-door
Toyota 4Runner – SUV originally introduced in 1984 as a compact SUV, but had since developed. It is also known as Toyota Hilux Surf in Japan.
Honda
Cited as the fifth-largest carmaker Honda Motor Company Limited began in 1948 as a small manufacturing company and published his first car in 1963 when the company focused on the wheels at the start. He was the first Japanese luxury car manufacturer, the legend in 1985. Honda is known to produce fuel-efficient vehicles, and it now offers the FCX Clarity, which is as efficient as hybrid cars, as it runs on hydrogen fuel cell.
Other Honda car models include:
Honda Civic – launch small car in 1972, initially as a two-door model, it has developed to sedan and hybrid are
Honda Accord – a compact sedan introduced in 1976, the coupe and sedan now also
Honda CR-V – compact crossover SUV manufactured since 1996
Honda Element – compact crossover SUV launched in 2003
These are just two examples of the quality of Japanese and Japanese auto production in the automotive industry.
