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First Horseless carriages were used for public transport.
The first car, motor vehicle, introduced in Japan in 1898, was a Panhard Panhard These were imported from France.
The first Japanese attempt to manufacture their own car started in 1904 Yamaha built at that time, the first steam car This car was built to be used as a bus for ten people maximum The steam cars do not last long, they were quickly followed by petrol cars.
Most models treated from the beginning with many technical problems, from which the solid tires that worked regularly rim, were most important.
Mainly due to its long history in the development of the car, and secondarily because of US financial aid just after the Second World War, became Japan a major automaker.
Japan is one of the largest car producing countries in the world Although it has recently lost its main one in China and position the U S.
Between 1980 and 2009 Japan and U S leapfrogged regularly when he came to the position of leader of the largest car manufacturing country.
From 2009, China has taken this direction, and left the others far behind.
Yoshida Takuri - The first Japanese passenger car in 1907.
The first Japanese car made gasoline powered home was Yoshida Takuri The car was built in 1907 by Automobile Shokai, owned Shinataro Shinataro Yoshida Yoshida at that time was also president of the factory bikes Sorinshokai in Tokyo and often traveled to the United States for imports of bicycle parts.
This car was commissioned by Takehito Arisugawa, the Prince Imperial Japan The order was to build a modern car with combustion engine The car was to be homegrown as much as possible, but some of the parts for the first two cars were imported US, such as engine, transmission and axles longitudinal because they weren t yet available in Japan Takuri design was based on the Ford model A.
After using imported parts in the first two models, Automobile Shokai developed and built its own engine and parts for the other ten Takuri models.
The car was nicknamed Takuri after the rattling noise of the engine and gearbox have been made during the execution Takuri is derived from a Japanese word gata-kuri meaning a rattling noise caused by the irregular movement.
Yoshida himself never established as a carmaker long in Japan.
One of the first domestic manufactured cars were already sophisticated machines, as Yoshida Takuri 1907 It was the first home, automobile gasoline Source built in Japan.
After the modest success of Takuri, another pioneer, Masujiro Hashimoto, founded in 1911 in Tokyo a car factory called Co Kwaishinsha we know today as the Nissan Motor Company.
Hashimoto finished after three years struggling in 1914 his first car, called the DAT drive.
The car DAT name is derived from the surnames of large investors Hashimoto D, A and T Oyama akeuchi.
The company became first known as Datsun, who later became Datsun Nissan was the first automaker to sustainable long Japan.
1929 - Self-propelled vehicles were used in public transport.
Public transport quickly developed in Japan in 1929 This bus was already much more sophisticated long lines waiting for the bus Source.
There was until 1930 a huge technological gap between Japan and Europe GM US and Ford were so far ahead of the Japanese automotive technology, it reversed the bulk of the clean automobile production Japan itself.
Datsun was until the 30s are not able to produce cars in large numbers because of that most cars were imported to Japan only the wealthiest could pay their own car.
A new company, Hakuyosha Ironworks, tried to bridge the gap in 1924 with the introduction of Otomo, with the first large-scale production of cars in Japan Hakuyosha produces 230 Otomo's astronomic between 1924 and 1927.
Hakuyosha Ironworks never established as a sustainable automobile manufacturer in Japan.
Datsun product between 1914 and 1926 several models, such as the DAT 31, DAT 41 and DAT 51 These models were entirely handmade and produced in small numbers most parts of the three models were produced in Japan.
DAT merged in 1926 with Jitsuyo Jidosha Seizo to become DAT Automobile Manufacturing Company.
After several years of development, DAT came in 1932 back with a modern and revolutionary car, 11 Datsun Datsun built in a year 150 units, which was more than the best-selling Otomo made in a year.
In 1934, the company was merged DAT freshly acquired by Nissan, and has become the largest automaker in Japan in 1937, Nissan produced 15,000 cars.
Invasion of the Big Three US automakers.
At the same time the three biggest US automakers, Chrysler, Ford and GM, set up production facilities in Japan and produced between 1925 and 1936 more than 200,000 cars over 10 times the amount of own domestic production of Japan .
But because of the rising prewar tensions between the United States and Japan in the late 30s, all US manufacturers have abandoned their factories.
The type Toyota AA A comfortable passenger car in 1936.
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