Bout Daihatsu

Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. (ダ イ ハ ツ 工業 株式会社 Daihatsu Kogyo Kabushiki-gaisha?, TYO: 7262, OSE: 7262) is Japan's oldest car company, better known for its cars are small / compact. Daihatsu headquarters in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. With its new slogan, "We Do Compact", the products are well-known length, such as Taft, discontinued in 2002. 

Daihatsu was formed back in 1951 as the successor company of Hatsudoki and in the 1960s, they started exporting cars to Europe, although sales were not so good. 

Since February 1992, has become a habit for Toyota to market Daihatsu products in North America. 

In January 2011, Daihatsu announced that they will be out of the European market in 2013, due to the continued strength of the yen is causing harm to Daihatsu. Sales of Daihatsu itself in Europe increasingly diminished, from the previous 58,000 units in 2007, became only 19,000 units in 2010.

A brief history of DAIHATSU

1907 Hatsudoki Seizo Co., Ltd. established 

1951 Replacement of the company name: Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. 

1967 In collaboration with Toyota Motor Corporation 

1992 Daihatsu USA collapse in February 

1999 Being a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota controls 51% stake in Daihatsu. 

March 2006. Stop of Australia 

2011 Daihatsu will invest 20 billion yen ($ 238.9 million) in Indonesia to build a plant that will be used to produce smaller cars than Toyota Etios, the car that was lunched in India in December 2010 Construction construction is done on the ground of 70,000 square meters and began on May 27, 2011. The plant began operations late 2012 and will produce 100,000 units of cars per year.