Who is the better automaker, Toyota or Honda? Why?

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Car Maker (Consumer Durables)
Overall (Top 2000)* Rank #
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Toyota Motor 10
Daimler Chrysler 33
Honda Motor 55
Nissan Motor 58 (1901)**
Ford Motor 58
General Motors 65
BMW 87
Hyundai Motor 188
Suzuki Motor 437
Mazda Motor 618
Isuzu Motors 797
Mitsubishi Motors 909

*Source: 2005 Edition of The Forbes Global 2000 (Dated April 18, 2005)
** Nissan Diesel Motor

For everyone's perusal.

On a personal level, subjective yong topic. On an objective level, above are the figures in the global picture. It should tell you something about the company (and its product market, management, and financial position). May breakdown din yan in terms of assets, sales, profits, and market value. By region, etc.Too many to include tho. Ok na yong overall na lang.

Ewan ko lang kung may latest.

Thank you sir for the info...

[number001]

I read this somewhere and it appears to be unverified therefore it should not be readily misconstrued as such. Anyway, I read that Honda is essentially a engine manufacturing company whose main function is to create avenues to allow for increased sales in engines. The cars, motorcycles, etc. are secondary functions to allow for more sales of engines. Toyota, on the other hand, it is really an automobile centered company. They buy their engines from Yamaha?

Oh well, it all does sound quite farfetched.

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In 1965 Yamaha began its involvement with Toyota, developing the six-cylinder engine for the Toyota 2000GT sportscar, which achieved its first major success in 1966 winning the Suzuka 1000kms. The relationship with Toyota continued with the Toyota 1600GT and the Toyota 7 racing car in 1969. In 1968 the company diversified into snowmobiles, go karts, yachts, golf carts, snow ploughs, swimming pools and in 1979 into an all-terrain vehicle called the Land Car.

Seeing automobile engineering as an area of potential development, the company began to build its own racing engines in 1984 and the Yamaha OX66 V6 engine won its debut race in the Japanese F2 Championship of 1986.

In addition to its involvement with Toyota, Yamaha began to build road car engines for the Ford Motor Company. At the same time the company built the America's Yacht Nippon. Automotive development resulted in the plan to build a supercar but the OX99-11 of 1992 never went into production.

The company's F1 program was never a success although in 1996 Judd designed the JV - which was known as the Yamaha OX11 - the first of the new generation of small, lightweight F1 V10s. It was not reliable although Arrows' Damon Hill came close to victory in Hungary the following year.

Yamaha was left in the lurch at the start of 1998 when Arrows announced that it would be using its own F1 engines.

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One Toyota engine co-developed with Yamaha is the 20-valve. Other than that, I'm pretty sure Toyota manufactures their own engines since the 80s.