Toyota

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited is joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and the Kirloskar Group, for the manufacture and sales of Toyota cars in India.[1]. It currently is the 5th largest car maker in India after Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Tata, Mahindra. The company Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKMPL) according to its mission statement aims to play a major role in the development of the automotive industry and the creation of employment opportunities, not only through its dealer network, but also through ancillary industries with a business philosophy of "Putting Customer First".[1]
On June 7, 2012, Vice Chairman of the company revealed that the company is planning to enter the healthcare sector and its first hospital is coming up in Karnataka in May 2013.[2]

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[top]History




8th Generation Toyota Camry





4th Generation Toyota Land Cruiser Prado


Toyota Motor Corporation entered India in 1997 in a joint venture with the Kirloskar Group.[3]

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Toyota Fortuner





10th Generation Toyota Land Cruiser


TKMPL's current plant at Bidadi, Karnataka is spread across 432 acres and has a capacity of 80,000 vehicles per annum[4].
TKMPL's second manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka has a capacity of 70,000 vehicles per annum. Both plants have a combined capacity of 150,000 vehicles per annum.
On 16 March 2011, it announced that it was increasing production to 210,000 vehicles per annum[5] due to increase in demand for its models especially the Etios and Fortuner.
With effect from June 01, 2012, Toyota Kirloskar Motor will be increasing the prices of Etios diesel and Innova by 1 per cent and Fortuner and Etios Liva diesel by 0.5 per cent. The price hike is on account of the weakening of Rupee.[6] Toyota announced that Etios sedan and the Liva hatchback has posted sales of over one lakh units, hence Toyota is all set for giving its production a big boost.Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) plans to hike the production capacity of its Etios series models by 75% by early 2013. [7] Toyota Kirloskar Motors would launch its motor racing series in 3 cities in India next year.[8]

[top]Models




4th Generation Toyota Prius


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  1. Toyota Corolla (Launched 2003)
  2. Toyota Innova (Launched 2005)
  3. Toyota Etios (Launched 2010)
  4. Toyota Etios Liva (Launched 2010)
  5. Toyota Fortuner (Launched 2009)

[top]Imported

  1. Toyota Camry (Launched 2002)
  2. Toyota Land Cruiser Prado (Launched 2004)
  3. Toyota Land Cruiser (Launched 2009)
  4. Toyota Prius (Launched 2010)



[top]Discontinued

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  1. 14th Jul 2012, 19:42 #1
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    tadukuttan, The first sentence is missing "T" from Toyota.
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    shishirbn, just some copy paste text from Wikipedia, not actual content. That needs be written.
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    tadukuttan, I tried editing the first post, but apart from the hyperlinks I didn't get the text to see at all.
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    Once this is done, mclaren1885 will be writing a detailed tutorial on how to use it. For now, the edit links are just some text that came from wikipedia copying. The actual edit is the 3rd "tab" on top.
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