Hino Motors

Hino JIDOSHA K. K. (Jap.日 野 自动 车 株式会社. Hino JIDOSHA kabushiki - gaisha, Eng. Hino Motors, Ltd. ), listed on the Nikkei 225 equity index, is a Japanese manufacturer of diesel trucks, buses and other vehicles, based in Hino (Tokyo). Hino is part of the Toyota Group.

History

1942 Hino company was founded to produce trucks. The model Chiyoda by former manufacturer TGE was taken. The product range was expanded with buses. Short term also passenger cars were produced.

In 1966 the close cooperation between Hino and Toyota. Now Hino focused on the construction of medium and heavy trucks and buses.

2001 Toyota had 50.46% stake in Hino, Hino making subsidiary of Toyota was.

Products

Truck

  • Super Dolphin
  • Profia
  • Dutro
  • Ranger
  • Mega

Ranger concrete mixer truck

Profia fire truck

Mega

Buses

  • RE / RC
  • Poncho
  • Blue Ribbon & Blue Ribbon II
  • Rainbow & Rainbow II
  • Melpha
  • S'elega
  • Grandview
  • Front -engine chassis (eg FB)
  • Front -engine chassis (AK)
  • Rear -engine chassis (RG, RM, RK)

Rainbow HR low- floor bus

S'elega bus

4 -cycle chassis RK bus

Passenger cars

Between 1953 and 1966, Hino Motors also manufactures passenger cars. First, this was the license- Hino- Renault 4CV.

From 1961 models of their own design were offered. The Hino Contessa 900, a 4-door sedan, had a 4- cylinder engine with 893 cc displacement and 25.7 kW ( 35 hp ) in the rear. The body was equipped with small tail fins. He was made ​​900 Sprint aside a 2 -door coupe, the Hino Contessa. Its engine had designed 33 kW ( 45 hp ), which is 10 hp more and the body was by Italian designer Michelotti. Both cars were offered exclusively in Japan.

The body of the second series, the Hino Contessa 1300 was manufactured as a 4-door sedan in 1964, was designed by Michelotti. They resembled the contemporary English Triumph 2000 and 1300, which also came from Michotti; In addition, there was again a 2 -door coupe. It remained with the rear-mounted engine, now with 1.3 liter displacement. These models were available in the U.S. and some European countries, such as Switzerland and Belgium.

With the participation by Toyota in 1966, car production was set at Hino Motors.

Other Vehicles

Between 1961 and 1966 there was the Briska, a pickup truck and van with the front mounted engine of the Contessa. In the 1930s and tracked vehicles and aircraft produced by Hino.

Swell

  • For passenger cars: Kuch, Joachim: cars from Japan 1965 - 1985, Schrader engine Chronicle, Schrader -Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3- 613-87198 -X
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