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Toyota Motor Corporation's history is quite flashy and plain as in many other companies. In 1933, Toyota Motor Corporation was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda, who son of the founder of Toyoda Automatic Loom. Kiichiro Toyoda was engineer. At first, only three aerodynamic cars were produced . After that, they produced mini trucks because Japan government supported them. Until 1937 Toyota Motor Corporation was dependent to Toyoda Automatic Loom company. After 1937   Toyota Motor Corporation   continued to produce as an independent company. Toyota began to produce more cars. USA was first, despite Toyota cars got ahead of USA cars.               C ause of the second world war producing cars were in dangerous in Japan. During this period land vehicles were produced for war.  Kiichiro Toyoda could produce only 200 special cars in that period. After the war, toyota developed. But at that time, Japan entered into economic c...

       Bavarian Motor Works (German: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) or well-known as BMW is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturer founded in March 1916 by Franz Josef Popp, Karl Rapp and Camillo Castiglioni. The history of BMW is one of the most fascinating in the automotive industry. Featuring two World Wars and immense diversification, it’s a colorful history. After the end of World War I, an aircraft engine manufacturer and two conglomerates would form the basis of what would evolve into the Bavarian Motor Works (BMW). Due to the terms of the Treaty Of Versailles, the company was unable to manufacture aircraft engines, and to keep afloat, BMW switched to the manufacture of motorcycles in 1923. In 1929 the company would purchase Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach which currently was manufacturing vehicles under the brand Dixi. 1936 was a landmark moment in BMW history, as the first BMW sports car would be released under the model number 328 and was aga...

Automobiles Citroen S.A was founded by Andre-Gustave Citroen in 1919. Andre was a French industrialist and freemason and used to mass produce armaments. However, in the mid-1910s, he developed an interest in the automobile industry. After World War I, he was left with an empty factory, which he then used to set up a company named after himself, Citroen. That’s how the Citroen company started, continue reading to learn more about the Citroen Logo, history timeline, and list of latest models. Citroen’s first vehicle was the Type A (Picture Below), which was released with an original advert. It was a classic car with a four-cylinder engine and a top speed of 64kph. Soon enough, the vehicle became a success in the French automobile market and this marked the beginning of a successful company. In 1920, Citroen began mass-producing vehicles with simple designs which served the growing automobile market incredibly well. In just one year on the market, the company managed to sell more t...

Like other auto manufacturers that are still around today, such as Ford and Fiat, the Renault Corporation was created due to the initiative and genius of one man; Louis Renault. Born in February 1877, Louis had a passion for mechanics and new techniques at an early age, leading him to neglect his studies and spend most of his time in the workshop where Léon Serpollet used to build his racing steam cars.  After his military service, Louis turned a De Dion-Bouon cycle into a four-wheeled small car equipped with one of his inventions; a universal jointed propeller shaft that included a three-gear box with reverse, with the third gear in direct drive. He patented this principle in 1899. This little car, soon to be named the Renault Type A, was the inspiration for Louis Renault to become an auto manufacturer, winning a bet with friends that the car could drive up the slope of Lépic Street in Montmartre. Afterwards, he received twelve orders for the car. In 1905, Louis Renau...

As one of the most beloved automakers in the world, Fiat has enjoyed a fascinating history that includes war, automotive innovation and international conquest. Below we've outlined the history of Fiat and its incredible story over the last 100 years. Fiat’s story begins in 1900 when Italian entrepreneur Giovanni Agnelli opened the first Fiat factory in Turin, Italy. Agnelli founded the car company with a group of local investors, calling their newest venture: Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (FIAT), or Italian Automobile Factory of Turin. Their first factory was quite small, employing only 150 people on a daily basis. But the tiny automaker proved successful in its home country, which cleared the way for Agnelli to establish the first Fiat factory in the U.S. in 1908. Fiat remained one of the bestselling cars in Europe for the next 100 years, especially in its native Italy. It survived Mussolini’s reign during WWII, deve...

Volkswagen is the largest car manufacturer in Europe, and there’s no doubt that the name is more familiar than the name used when the company was founded in 1937 – Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. A string of successes features in the history of this German company, as well as some setbacks.  The company was renamed Volkswagenwerk GmbH on September 16th, 1938, after being founded on the 28th of May the previous year. Work began on a new factory in 1938, in what is today the city of Wolfsburg, to produce a new car designed by Ferdinand Porsche. The Second World War saw about 20,000 concentration camp prisoners, prisoners of war and laborers forced to work at the Volkswagen GmbH plant. During this time, the company focused on manufacturing armaments instead of cars. Volkswagen created a humanitarian fund in 1998, to help provide financial compensation for those who were forced to work at the company’s plant during the war. The fund had helped ...