History
Documented history from archives, company heritage material, museum and society collections, and the regulatory and patent record.
October 23, 2026 · updated October 24, 2026
Twenty million in 1976, fifty million in 1986: Toyota's cumulative production milestones as the company announced them
Two primary Toyota Motor Company releases-one dated July 8, 1976, the other January 17, 1986-document two cumulative factory-production milestones for the Japan-based automaker: the Corona 1800 GL at the Tsutsumi Plant as the 20-millionth vehicle, and the Crown 4-door Hardtop Royal Saloon G at the Motomachi Plant as the 50-millionth. Both carry the company's own breakdowns and chronologies. This files entry quotes the passages as issued and names the dates; it holds no driving impression and no reliability verdict.
October 20, 2026
From looms to the Toyopet Crown: Toyota's beginnings, in the company's own records
A history files entry drawing on Toyota Motor Corporation's official chronology of its own beginnings, 1929–1959: the patent agreement with Platt Brothers, the Automotive Division at Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, the Model AA, the founding of Toyota Motor Co., Ltd., the Koromo Plant and Just-in-Time, the 1950 business management crisis and labor dispute, the Land Cruiser BJ and the 1955 Toyopet Crown.
September 28, 2026
Euro NCAP's Safety Assist protocols, on paper: the document set listed under Latest and the archived version history
A reference piece on the five Safety Assist documents Euro NCAP's protocols page listed under "Latest" as read on 28 September 2026 — Safe Driving v10.4, Collision Avoidance v10.4.1, AEB Car-to-Car v4.3.1, LSS v4.3 and SAS v2.0 — and the archived version history the same page shows, per Euro NCAP's own protocols page.
September 11, 2026 · updated September 30, 2026
A decade in one number: SMMT's 2011 New Car CO2 Report and the UK's 144.2 g/km fleet average
On 16 March 2011 the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) published its 10th annual New Car CO2 Report. The UK-market document recorded a 2010 average of 144.2 g/km CO2 for new cars, 3.5% lower than 2009 and more than 20% below the 2000 level. It also showed how close the market already was to the Europe-wide 130 g/km fleet target set for 2015. This history item reviews what the report itself documented.