Its raining facts here on Autojosh, we would not rest on our oars to educate you about everything automobile.Today we would be dishing out facts about another automobile giant Toyota .

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The company, Toyota Motor Corporation was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda .

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Its interesting to know that the founder was formerly into textile production ,infact Toyota Motor Corporation started out as a division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works.Well the company is still in the textile business till this day.

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The Toyota logo is not just random oval shapes but it actually spells out T-O-Y-O-T-A .

Check out the image below :

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Are you surprised ?  .

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The brand was formerly “Toyoda” just like the founders name , take a peek at their previous logo :

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Toyota fully owns Lexus and Scion .They also own stakes in  Daihatsu and Subaru .

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In terms of money, Toyota is the 8th biggest company in the world as at 2016 .

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In 2013 they broke a world record , they produced more than 10 million cars in one year .

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The Toyota Corolla has 12 generations and has sold about 40 million(cars) worldwide .

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At a time ,as part of publicity for it’s then new corona design, when Japan got its first free way ,They took three cars out for a spin and drove 100,000 miles non stop back and forth between Osaka and Nagoya .

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The legendary 2000GT broke all sorts of records , one I particularly love is,it ran 130 mph , for 78 consecutive hours partially through a tropical storm.Now thats wicked !!! , don’t drool over this baby except you have about 500 million Naira .

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Its not surprising that they built their first hybrid car in 1968 !! and it used a turbine engine .

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Even though they started making hybrids early , the Prius was the first mass produced hybrid from them.And they sold the 1,000,000 th in 1997 .

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Toyota developed a complex traffic “app” over 40 years ago.In the early 1970s, the Comprehensive Automobile Traffic Control System featured a control room like you would see in a old sci-fi movie. It practically monitored traffic and let any car with a receiver on their end know which streets were grid-locked, so drivers could  use alternate routes.

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This guys don’t just give up.It took 450 prototypes to get the first Lexus right ,and they had to make 50 full-scale clay models .Inspiring !!

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They were so successful that Japan had to name one of its cities after them in 1959 .

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