Brief history of Toyota Motor Co. and museum

@Andres that was very interesting, thanks for taking time to share

 

@Andres
Thank you for the tour.

As I understand it, the US rejected the SixSigma quality control, and Japan embraced it. That and new machines after the destruction of WWII made a big difference in Japan's abilities.

 

My pleasure, kind of cool right?

 

Yes it is very cool, it would be so neat to visit in person

 

First time I'm seeing this thread, really cool.

 

Fun factoid about the car; only the engine design was copied from Chevy. The Chassis & Electrical systems were copied from Ford, and the body was based heavily on the Chrysler Airflow

 

very cool.
Thanks Andres.

 

You're welcome bud!

 

I'm sure you're correct, I simply went by what I was told at the factory.

Either way the car looks spectacular in person.

 

Yeah, it looks really well done.

 

This is super cool! I went to the Toyota MegaWeb in Tokyo back in 2011. They had a showroom, a place where you could do test drives (I didn't bother because the line was long), and a history museum.

Might as well share some of the pictures I took!

I noticed some evidence of... energetic test driving:


I got to sit in this Supra:

(It involved what felt like dislocating my hips and folding my pelvis in half to squeeze into the bolsters, and I'm a skinny guy.)

I saw one of these and thought "wow, this is so cool, too bad these will never ever ever come to America!":

(Again, this was in 2011 and I was so surprised to see them as Scions here! Too bad they got axed pretty quickly. )

Their history museum had some cool stuff like an actual, non-reproduction rally car:

(looks like it had been rolled into a ditch and it probably had!)

Then you could sit and have a drink next to THE Toyota GT-One:


And finally in the vintage area they had a 2000GT just sitting there being gorgeous:

(The lighting in here was pretty dim so it's not a very good picture... but I spent a while drooling over this one.)

If you ever find yourself in Tokyo this is well worth the short trip. I forget the exact train line you switch to (Yamanote to Rinkan... Rinkai? Rin-something haha) but there's only 1 line switch and you end up in Odaiba, which is near the Fuji TV building and Tokyo Big Site. It's a short walk out of the station. Google would be more useful than me in finding it.

 

Thank you sir, glad you like it.

 

Holy fuck dude I was in Odaiba, I meant to visit the Tokyo Mega Web but didn't have time.
Nearby I visit the Gundam Front and I regret not going.

Very cool pictures, thanks for sharing.
I didn't know they had classic cars in there, I thought they only had the latest and greatest.
I did visit other Toyota museums and had a chance to see a 2000GT

I'm sure I'll visit Japan again sometime.

 

Very cool, thanks for sharing! Last April we also went to Nagoya, Japan, but we took a train to the Toyota Automobile Museum in Nagakute.

 

Very cool!

Is it the one where they have the Model AA at the bottom floor?
I went to 3 different ones.

 

Yes, that's the one. The website said it is a Model AA, but the actual signage says it is a Model AC.

 

Very cool thread!

 

A few more shots from the Toyota Museum

 

Thank you sir.

 

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