4. Toyota
Headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese automotive manufacturer.
As of November 2014, is the 12th largest company in the world by revenue and in 2012, Toyota was the largest automobile manufacturer.
The company is the world’s first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year.
Founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spin-off from his father’s company Toyota Industries, Toyota was created with the goal of creating automobiles.
Three years earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and, in 1936, its first passenger car, the Toyota AA.
Toyota Motor Corporation produces vehicles under 5 brands, including the Toyota brand, Hino, Lexus, Ranz, and Scion.
