16 Facts About Hino Motors

Hino Motors was established in 1942 as a corporate spin-off from previous manufacturers.

Hino Motors is a large constituent of the Nikkei 225 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Hino Motors took its name from the location of its headquarters in Hino city within Tokyo prefecture.

In 1953, Hino Motors entered the private car market, by manufacturing Renaults under licence, and in 1961 it started building its own Contessa 900 sedan with an 893cc rear-mounted engine, and a pickup truck called the Hino Motors Briska with the Contessa engine slightly enlarged and installed in the front with rear wheel drive.

However, Hino Motors ceased private car production very quickly in 1967 following a strategic alliance with Toyota in 1965.

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Hino Motors Trucks have been assembled in Norway, Portugal and Canada.

Hino Motors became a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation in 2001.

Hino Motors has been marketing trucks in Canada since the 1970s.

Hino Motors Manufacturing Colombia is a partnership between the Mitsui group and the Colombia manager for the Hino brand, PRACO-Didacol S A The partnership assembles medium and heavy trucks, destined mainly to the export market for the Andinean and Central American countries.

Hino Motors signed a 10-year assembly agreement with Kaiser-Illin Industries of Haifa, Israel, in 1963.

In mid 2008, Hino Motors was said to be building a new truck assembly facility in Guanajuato, Mexico, serving international deliveries.

In 1975, Hino Motors has entered the Philippine market, and creating Pilipinas Hino Motors, Inc It was originally established for the manufacturing of buses and, later, trucks.

In 2017, Hino Motors announced that it was going to open its first factory in Russia.

Hino Motors was split again in 2003, becoming Hino Motors Manufacturing Ltd.

The plant in Long Beach, California, where Hino Motors's US-based medium duty truck production had begun in 2004, was closed in 2007 and its production was transferred to the West Virginia facility.

Hino Motors has competed in the Dakar Rally since 1991 with a Ranger FT 4WD truck driven by the Japanese rally driver, Yoshimasa Sugawara.