Jaguar Cars Limited

Founded
1922

Headquarters
Browns Lane, Allesley, Coventry, England

Key people
Geoff Polites (CEO)Bibiana Boerio (Managing Director)
Industry
Automotive
Products
Automobile
Parent
Ford Premier Automotive Group

Website

Jaguar.com

Jaguar Cars Limited is a British luxury car manufacturer, with headquarters in Browns Lane, Coventry, England. It was founded as SS Cars Ltd in 1922 and changed its name to Jaguar in 1945. The company has been owned by Ford since 1990. Jaguar also has an engineering division in Whitley, Coventry.
Jaguar's main competitors include BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Lexus, Cadillac, Infiniti and in the past Rover. Its continual nemesis, until it became a subsidiary of Ford, however, was reliability. Since the company has been under the Ford Motor Company umbrella, reliability and build has improved dramatically, even surpassing that of Audi and Mercedes-Benz, with the company coming 7th (out of 30) in the J. D. Power Customer Satisfaction Survey (the '242-million mile road test'), and the S-TYPE model coming 9th out of 105 cars in the same survey. However, nowhere has the turnaround in the quality of the cars been more obvious than in the 2003 Top Gear Survey, where the XJ8 (X308) model came first.
The name is pronounced /ˈdʒægjuːə/ "jag ewer" in the UK, //ˈdʒægˌwɑɹ// "jag wahr" in the USA. The colloquial "Jag" is acceptable in both countries.

Headquarters of Toyota

Founded
1933 by Kiichiro Toyoda

Headquarters
Toyota, Aichi, Japan
Torrance, California, USA Brussels, Belgium

Key people
Fujio Cho, ChairmanKatsuhiro Nakagawa, Vice Chairman,Katsuaki Watanabe, PresidentYukitoshi Funo, Chairman and CEO, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A,,James E. Press, Chief Operating Officer, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.,Bob Carter, Vice President and General. Manager, Lexus Group
Industry
Automobile manufacturing,Financial services,Biotechnology
Products
Toyota,Lexus,Scion
Toyota Financial Services,Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd.,Hino Motors, Ltd.,DENSO,Toyota Industries
Slogan

Website
www.toyota.co.jp

The headquarters of Toyota are located in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Its subsidiary, Toyota Financial Services sells financing and participates in other lines of business. Toyota brands include Scion and Lexus and the corporation is part of the Toyota Group. Toyota also owns majority stakes in Daihatsu and Hino, and 8.7% of Fuji Heavy Industries, which manufactures Subaru vehicles. They also acquired 5.9% of Isuzu Motors Ltd. on November 7, 2006 and will be introducing Isuzu diesel technology into their products.
In 2005, Toyota, combined with its half-owned subsidiary Daihatsu Motor Company, produced 8.54 million vehicles, about 500,000 fewer than the number produced by GM that year. In some months in 2006, Toyota passed Ford in selling cars. Toyota has a large market share in the United States, Europe and Africa and is the market leader in Australia. It has significant market shares in several fast-growing Southeast Asian countries.[3]
In the Fortune Global 500, Toyota Motor is the 8th largest company in the world outpacing Ford Motor Company in all listings in terms of revenue and growth and in the 2006 Forbes Global 2000 it is the 12th largest company in the world. It has been consistently gaining market share in the United States.
The company was founded in 1933 by Kiichiro Toyoda as an offshoot of Toyoda Automatic Loom Company, under the encouragement of the Japanese government, which needed domestic vehicle production partly due to the worldwide money shortage and partly due to the war with China[4]. Toyota has introduced new technologies including the first hybrid gas-electric vehicle, Advanced Parking Guidance System (automatic parking), a four-speed electronically controlled automatic with buttons for power and economy shifting, and an eight-speed automatic transmission. Toyota, and Toyota-produced Lexus and Scion automobiles, consistently rank at the top in quality and reliability surveys, including J.D. Power and Consumer Reports, among others.