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Jalopnik: You Say Toyoda, We Say Toyota: How The Automaker Got Its Name Car History 02/24/2010

You Say Toyoda, We Say Toyota: How The Automaker Got Its Name [Car History]

Sakichi Toyoda was born in Japan 145 years ago today on February 14th, 1867. By all accounts a hard-working entrepreneur, Toyoda's greatest success was building a small business [more...]
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