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Latest archived mark · 2020

Toyota

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Honda

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What we compare	Toyota	Honda
Country in archive	Japan	Japan
Founded	August 28, 1937	1946
Founder	Kiichiro Toyoda	Soichiro Honda
Headquarters	Toyota City, Aichi, Japan	Minato, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Name origin	The company began as a spin-off of the Toyoda family's loom business, and its early vehicles were sold as Toyoda. In 1936 the spelling changed to Toyota, reportedly because the new form took eight brush strokes to write in Japanese, a lucky number, and sounded clearer than the voiced original.	Honda is the surname of founder Soichiro Honda. The company was first set up as the Honda Technical Research Institute in 1946, and the family name became the brand without any invented word or acronym.
Selected models	Corolla, Land Cruiser, Prius, 2000GT, Hilux, Supra	S800, Civic, Accord, CR-V, NSX, S2000
Earliest archived brand logo	1958	1961
Latest archived logo	2020	2000
Archived logo assets	10	6

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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