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Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational carmaker headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In 2017, Toyota's corporate structure consisted of over 360,000 workers globally and, as of 2019, was the tenth-biggest corporation in the world by revenue.

Toyota is the biggest automobile producer in Japan, and the second-largest in the world after Volkswagen, based on 2018 unit sales. Toyota was the world's first car maker to manufacture more than 10 million cars per year, which it has done since 2012 when it also reported the making of its 200-millionth cars.

Since 2014, Toyota was the biggest listed company in Japan by market capitalization and by revenue.

Toyota is the global market leader in sales of hybrid electric cars, and one of the biggest companies to support the mass-market adoption of hybrid cars across the globe. Cumulative global sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrid passenger vehicle variants reached 15 million milestones in January 2020. Its Prius family is the world's best-selling hybrid car with over 6 million units marketed worldwide as of January 2017.

The company was established by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937, as a by-product of his father's company Toyota Industries, to create vehicles.

Toyota is registered on the London Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, and Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Toyota known problems

Some of the common problems or complaints owners have about the Toyota are: