Speaking of Toyota, everyone must know this car company, but do you know what Toyota used to do? Today, I will give you some popular science about things you don’t know about Toyota. Toyota's first engine
To talk about this, we need to go back to 1895. Toyota's founder Kiichiro Toyoda was born, but at this time he was still a suckling child, so let's put him aside for now. . His father, Sakichi Toyoda, is a relatively well-known figure in Japan and a big brother figure in the textile circle. At the same time, he was also a person who loved inventions. In 1896, he invented the Toyota pneumatic loom. For this invention, the world's number one British textile factory spent 100,000 pounds to buy the patent for this invention, and Sakichi Toyoda made a lot of money.
When Kiichiro Toyoda grew up in 1929, Sakichi Toyoda sent him to England to sign a contract with a textile factory. During this period, Kiichiro Toyoda visited many automobile factories in Europe, so after returning to China, he made up his mind to study automobiles. So in 1931, he finally developed the first automobile engine, but the maximum horsepower of this engine was only 4Ps. Toyota brand "tape measure department"
In 1933, maybe he was dragged into a dream by Zotye from the future, maybe his hair fell out and he still couldn't figure out how to build a car. At this time, Kiichiro Toyoda decided Take out the "nirvana" that every car company has - a measuring tape. So in 1934, he bought Chrysler's Airflow sedan. Not long after, Toyota released the first AA-type sedan. The specific model cannot be verified, but Toyota's "Tape Measure Department" was established.
After World War II, Toyota decided to start producing small cars, so the tape department began intensive work again, tape the Beetle, and created the Toyota SA. Not long after, the Japanese Police Agency at that time found Toyota and wanted a batch of off-road vehicles. Kiichiro Toyoda readily agreed, so he chose the American JEEP? WILLYS. In this way, a generation of legendary Land Cruiser was born. Based on "America"
In 1955, the Toyota Crown model was born. This can be said to be a long-lived model. It is still being produced, sold and updated today more than 60 years later. After the Crown was released, sales were very hot. Seeing this, Toyota became arrogant and decided to sell the Crown to the United States. Unexpectedly, it received a basin of cold water in exchange.
However, Toyota, like an invincible little power, redesigned the Crown according to American tastes, and six years later it became a hit in the United States. Subsequently, Toyota pursued the victory and created the most successful model in history-Corolla. When the time came to 1973, the outbreak of the oil war in the Middle East led to an oil crisis all over the world, and the American people were unable to take the blame. In such difficult times, fuel-efficient small cars began to be welcomed by the market. However, at that time, the United States was a group of automakers that were good at building muscle cars and lacked the technology to produce fuel-efficient small cars. It just so happened that this was Toyota's unique skill, so Toyota benefited again.
U.S. automakers that were unable to make money began to urge the U.S. government to require Toyota to build factories in the United States so that they could both make profits. As we all know, the United States is an important market for Japan economically, and it is also its big brother politically. Of course, Toyota did not dare to offend it, so it cooperated with General Motors in the United States for production, which also made Toyota the largest overseas automobile manufacturer in the U.S. market. In today's terms, the car produced by this cooperation should be called "Tongfeng". I wonder if the American people at that time would be as picky as we were. At the end
After reading the above content, I believe everyone has a general understanding of how Toyota becomes stronger step by step. Today, Toyota is considered one of the giants among global automobile manufacturers. It has more and more models and its quality is visible to the naked eye. Not only that, Toyota has also made good gains in heavy industry.
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