Japanese Cars

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese automotive manufacturer. Toyota is the largest automobile manufacture and is the twelfth-largest company in the world by revenue. The company reported the production of its 200-millionth vehicle. Toyota is the world's first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year. As of 2014, Toyota was the largest listed company in Japan by market capitalization (worth more than twice as much as #2-ranked SoftBank) and by revenue.

Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota. First introduced in 1989 in the USA, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has ranked among the ten largest Japanese global brands in market value.

Nissan Motor Company Ltd, is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer. Since 1999, Nissan has been part of the Renault–Nissan Alliance, a partnership between Nissan and French automaker Renault. Nissan became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer and the sixth largest automaker in the world. Taken together, the Renault–Nissan Alliance would be the world’s fourth largest automaker. Nissan is the leading Japanese brand in China, Russia and Mexico.

Infiniti is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan. Infiniti officially started selling vehicles on November 8, 1989 in North America. The marketing network for Infiniti-branded vehicles now includes over 230 dealers in over 15 countries.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles and power equipment. Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda became the third-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer and the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world.

Acura is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Honda. The brand was launched in the United States and Canada in March 1986, marketing luxury, performance, and high-performance vehicles. It was introduced to Hong Kong in 1991, Mexico in 2004, China in 2006, and Russia in 2014. Acura holds the distinction of being the first Japanese automotive luxury brand.

Mazda Motor Corporation is a Japanese automaker based in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Mazda produced more than 1.3 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1 million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide. Mazda is the forth largest manufacturer in Japan and the thirteenth biggest manufacturer in the world.

Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation which specializes in manufacturing automobiles, four-wheel drive vehicles, motorcycles, ATVs, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines. Suzuki is the tenth biggest automaker by production worldwide. Suzuki has about 35 main production facilities in 23 countries and 133 distributors in 192 countries.

Subaru is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI), the twenty-second biggest automaker by production worldwide. Subaru is known for its use of the boxer engine layout in most of its vehicles above 1500 cc as well as its use of the Symmetrical All Wheel Drive drive-train layout since 1972. Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster.

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is a multinational automotive manufacturer. Mitsubishi Motors is the sixth biggest Japanese automaker and the fourteenth biggest worldwide by production. It is part of Mitsubishi keiretsu, formerly the biggest industrial group in Japan, and was formed in 1970 from the automotive division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Isuzu Motors Ltd. is a Japanese commercial vehicles and diesel engine manufacturing company. The company was founded in 1916 by the Japanese oil and gasoline manufacturer Tokyo Gas Company, which in 1934 fused with the carmaker and was renamed Isuzu. Isuzu-branded vehicles are sold in most commercial markets worldwide. By 2009, Isuzu had produced over 21 million diesel engines, which can be found in vehicles all over the world. Isuzu diesel engines are used by General Motors and Renault-Nissan Alliance.

Hino Motors, Ltd. commonly known as simply Hino, is a Japanese manufacturer of commercial vehicles and diesel engines (including trucks, buses and other vehicles). The company has been the leading producer of medium and heavy-duty diesel trucks in Asia. It supplies vehicles to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. It is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation and one of 16 major companies of the Toyota Group.

UD Trucks Corporation is a Japanese company whose principal business is the manufacture and sales of light, medium and heavy duty diesel trucks, buses, bus chassis and special-purpose vehicles. Until 2010, it was known as Nissan Diesel, the company changed its name to UD Trucks.

Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. is the oldest Japanese car manufacturer, mostly known for its range of smaller models and off-road vehicles. Daihatsu Motors has also manufactured select Scion vehicles for Toyota in the US market since 2002.

Mitsuoka Motors is a small and the youngest Japanese automobile company. It is noted for building cars with conventional styling, some of which imitate British vehicles of the 1950s and 1960s. It is primarily a coachbuilder, taking production cars, like the Nissan March, and replacing the bodywork with its own custom designs. It has also produced a sports car, the Orochi. Mitsuoka Motors is also the principal distributor of retro-classic TD2000 roadster in Japan.