FILE - In this April 13, 1985 file photo, Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Eiji Toyoda, left, and General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger B. Smith shake hands in front of a Chevrolet Nova as the new United ...

Former Toyota president Eiji Toyoda passed away today at the ripe old age of 100. Born Sept. 12, 1913, Toyoda (a cousin of Toyota founder Kiichiro Toyoda), began working for Toyota Motor Company in ...

File photo of Toyota Motor Corporation's honorary chairman Eiji Toyoda introducing a Toyota Cavalier compact car. By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Eiji Toyoda, who helped steer Toyota Motor Corp's ...

TOKYO — Eiji Toyoda, who spearheaded Toyota Motor Corp.’s expansion in the United States as the automaker’s longest- serving president, has died. He was 100. Toyoda died at 4:32 a.m. Tuesday because ...

Eiji Toyoda was Toyota%27s president from 1967 to 1982 Toyota%27s fabled production system was developed on his watch So was the Corolla TOKYO — Eiji Toyoda, a member of Toyota's founding family who ...

Eiji Toyoda, a family scion who spearheaded Toyota Motor Corp.’s aggressive push into the U.S. auto market, has died. He was 100. Toyoda, a cousin of the Japanese automaker’s founder Kiichiro Toyoda, ...

TOKYO – Eiji Toyoda, a member of Toyota's founding family who helped create the super-efficient "Toyota Way" production method, has died. He was 100. The automaker said Toyoda, a cousin of the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Eiji Toyoda, who helped steer Toyota Motor Corp's global rise and pioneered the automaker's vaunted production system, died on Tuesday, the Japanese automaker said. He was 100. TOKYO ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Eiji Toyoda, who helped steer Toyota Motor Corp's global rise and pioneered the automaker's vaunted production system, died on Tuesday, the Japanese automaker said. He was 100.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Eiji Toyoda, who helped steer Toyota Motor Corp’s global rise and pioneered the automaker’s vaunted production system, died on Tuesday, the Japanese automaker said. He was 100.