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, , ) | slogan = "Drive Your Dreams"
, (and Southeast Asian countries) "Moving Forward"
(Spanish-speaking) "Avanza Confiado" (Moving with Confidence)
"Maneja Confiado" (Drive With Confidence)
"Today, Tomorrow... Toyota"
"Oh What a Feeling!"
"Nic není nemožné" (Nothing is Impossible)
, "Nichts Ist Unmöglich" (Nothing is Impossible)
, , , (and Central American Countries) "Avancemos Juntos" (Let's Advance Together)
"Moviendo Vidas" (Moving Lifes)
"Make Things Better"
(French-speaking) "Faire Toujours Mieux" (Make Things Better)
"Lead the Way"
"Ve Más Allá" (Go Beyond)
"Управляй мечтой" (Drive a Dream)

| foundation = 1937 | founder = Kiichiro Toyoda | location = Toyota, Aichi, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan | key_people = Kiichiro Toyoda, Founder
Fujio Cho, Chairman and Representative Director
Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Vice chairman and Representative Director
Katsuaki Watanabe, President and Representative Director
Shoichiro Toyoda, Honorary Chairman | industry = Automotive Robotics Financial services Biotechnology | num_employees = 299,394 | products = Toyota Lexus Scion | subsid = 522 | net_income = USD $13.93 billion | revenue = USD $202.86 billion | profit = ¥1.64 trillion (+19.8%) (U.S.) (2007) | homepage = [http://www.toyota.co.jp/ Toyota.co.jp]]] }}

is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan. Toyota is the World's second largest automaker, behind the United States based General Motors. Toyota is the only car manufacturer to appear in the top 10 of the BrandZ name recognition ranking.

In 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product Type A engine and its first passenger car (the Toyota AA) in 1936. The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Toyota owns and operates Toyota, Lexus, Scion brands and has a majority shareholding in Daihatsu Motors , and has minority shareholdings in Fuji Heavy Industries, Isuzu Motors, and the engine, motorcycle and marine craft manufacturer Yamaha Motors. The company includes 522 subsidiaries.

Toyota is headquartered in Toyota and Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture and in Tokyo. It also provides financial services through its division Toyota Financial Services and also creates robots besides automobiles. The company along with the original Toyota Industries form bulk of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world.

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