What are the main car companies in Japan?

Japanese car companies include Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, Daihatsu and Suzuki.

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota)

Toyota Motor Corporation, the largest Japanese automobile company, was founded by Toyoda Shoichiro in 1933. Its headquarters is in Tokyo, and its current chairman is Toyoda Shoichiro. Toyota's annual output is nearly 5 million vehicles, of which nearly 50% are exported. Toyota has many famous brands. Toyota, Crown, Guangguan and Corolla were once famous. Cressida and Lexus luxury cars newly launched in recent years are also world-famous. Now Toyota Group also owns Hino Motor Company and Daihatsu Motor Company.

Nissan (Nissan)

Nissan Motor Company is the second largest automobile company in Japan and one of the top ten automobile companies in the world. Founded in 1933, 1934, it began to use its current name "Nissan Motor Company". Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the total number of employees is nearly 6.5438+0.3 million, with an annual output of 3.2 million vehicles. Nissan owns many automobile brands, such as truck brands such as Bunin, Tule, pickup truck and Gaby, luxury cars such as Duke, Bluebird, Maxima, Infinitus, Glory, Laurel, President, ordinary cars such as Sunshine, Freedom Villa, Horizon and Langley, in addition to the Infinitus 45 sports car.

Mitsubishi Automobile Industry Corporation (Mitsubishi)

Mitsubishi Automobile Industry Corporation is a member of Mitsubishi Group of Japan. Established on 1970 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Corporation and Chrysler Corporation of the United States. The headquarters of the company is located in Tokyo. At present, the company's annual output of automobiles exceeds 6.5438+0 million. Mitsubishi Motors has 65,438+00 production plants in Japan, two automobile research centers and a truck and bus research center, and 25 production plants abroad. Zeng Sheng produced the first diesel passenger car Fusang BD46 in Japan. The main products are mini cars and trucks, small cars and trucks, medium and heavy trucks, vans, buses, sports cars, engines and other parts.

Mazda motor company (Mazda)

Mazda Motor Company was founded by Song Tian on 1920, and was formerly known as Toyo Cork Industry Company. 1984 is named after the surname of its founder Song Tian, and the transliteration of "Mazda" is adopted in translation. The company is headquartered in Anjufu, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, with 28,000 employees and an annual output of 6,543,800 vehicles. The company ranks among the top 20 automobile companies in the world and is famous for producing rotary engine cars. This kind of engine adopts microcomputer to control the engine load state, and automatically adjusts the idle device and exhaust gas recirculation device to make the engine work smoothly, thus reducing fuel consumption and exhaust gas emission.

Honda Motor Company (Honda)

Honda Motor Company was founded by Shoichiro Honda in 1948. It mainly produced motorcycles in its early years and is still the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world. After 1960, Honda embarked on the road of automobile development. 1976 introduced the first generation accord, and now the sixth generation has been introduced. This car once 1989 topped the American sales champion at the same level. Honda's other car brands include Akoda, Citizen, Overture and City.

Dafa (Dafa)

Daihatsu Automobile Company was established in 1907, headquartered in Osaka, Japan, with more than 10000 employees. Dafa automobile company is good at making small and small engines, both in cars and engines. The manufacturing technology of small engines is quite high and it is in a leading position in the world. 1983 developed a 0.993-liter three-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine with the smallest displacement in the world, which broke through the technical limit of diesel engine with a displacement of more than 0.4 liter per cylinder. Tianjin Li Xia adopted Dafa technology. At present, Toyota Motor Corporation holds a majority stake in Daihatsu.

Suzuki Motor Company (Suzuki)

Suzuki, formerly a textile machinery factory, turned to produce motorcycles and cars in the early 1950s. 1954, officially named Suzuki Motor Company, headquartered in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, mainly produces mini-cars. Suzuki brand has both motorcycles and cars. Although Suzuki is not as popular as motorcycles, it also occupies a very high position in the world car world. Suzuki motorcycles were sold in Chinese mainland as early as 1980s. Suzuki is also a member of Toyota Group, and General Motors holds a 0/0% stake in Suzuki/KLOC. The main automobile products are Jimny, Samurai, Alto and so on. Among them, Alto has been introduced to China for production.

Isuzu (Isuzu)

Isuzu Company, formerly known as Ishikawa Island Shipyard in Tokyo, cooperated with British wolseley Company to produce automobiles from 1920, and changed its name from 1949 to Isuzu Automobile Company. Now headquartered in Tokyo, it stopped producing cars from 1993, specializing in the production of trucks, buses and off-road vehicles, of which trucks accounted for more than 70%. Isuzu technology has been introduced to Jiangxi Isuzu and Chongqing Isuzu. At present, GM has held a 49% stake in Isuzu.

Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru)

The predecessor of Fuji Heavy Industries was an aircraft factory, and 1953 was renamed Fuji Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.. Fuji racing enjoys a high reputation. 1989, 1 month, Fuji Lux sports car ran continuously for 19 days at an average speed of 223.345 kilometers per hour, and at the same time set a new world record of 65,438+1100 million kilometers, which remained unbroken for many years. The main products are four-wheel drive cars, mini-cars, light vehicles and buses, among which four-wheel drive cars sell well all over the world, and well-known brands are Legacy and Impreza, and lark mini-cars are jointly produced with China Guihang Group.