Shoichiro Toyoda’s selection of San Antonio’s South Side for a Toyota manufacturing...
Toyoda, the automaker’s honorary chairman, died Tuesday of heart failure, Toyota Motor Corp. said in a statement.as president and chief executive to become its chairman. Shoichiro was the eldest son of Kiichiro Toyoda, who founded Toyota in 1937.
Toyota officials conducted a formal search process for the plant with a relocation consultant. Texas, with the United States’ largest pickup market, and West Memphis, Ark., were the two finalists, Cisneros said. Toyoda, known as Dr. Toyoda, and his wife came to the studio where the statue was being sculpted to give their input.
Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, honorary chairman of the Toyota Motor Corp., right, speaks with former San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros during the World Affairs Council of San Antonio International Citizen of the Year gala in 2006.After becoming Toyota's president in 1982, Toyoda helped direct Toyota’s transformation into a global automaker, especially in the vital U.S. market, where its brand became synonymous with quality, durability, cost performance and engineering finesse.
Toyoda was inducted into the U.S. Automotive Hall of Fame in 2007, honored for his achievements in cementing “Toyota’s reputation as one of the most recognized and celebrated auto manufacturers in the world.”
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