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Originally Posted by Bristecom
I made a list of who makes what a while back. The seats are made by Toyota Boshoku and the seat belts are made by Tokai Rika.
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Yes and to add to this to see the scale of operations, the Toyota Boshoku is a parent/founding company of Toyota Automobile Corporation, predating the automobile division by 20 years as a cotton weaver, textile, fiber manufacturing equipment and supplies producer.
They make or tasks with partners, bulk of the fabrics and composites used in Toyota automobiles, as well as other cars, public transit and infrastructures, apparel, aerospace carbon composite weaving and baking, and advanced research for microfibers in scientific fields and manufacturing too.
Toyota Bosho supplies carbon fiber fuselage and wing sub-components, along with Subaru, and also seats on many airliners, trains, and bus, and public stadiums and theaters.
Recaro is actually a competing brand that does similar things in Germany, but some of the Racing "branding" has been tied in collaborative marketing projects to produce periodic special items to market the cars, such as the seats in the Toyota 86 GRMN Special Editions, as well as past optional equipment TRD packages. The 14R60 and few other projects have been TRD branded and supplied by BRIDE JAPAN as well.
Takata is a closely tied company that is part of Honda family of companies today, and also supplies nylon fiber components to a huge number of firms in the automotive supplier side products, bulk of that being interior fabrics, original OE seatbelts, SRS airbags, etc. They supply about half of all airbags in automobiles around the world today.
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Toyota Boshoku (Textile Manufacturing) is the founding origin of Toyota, established long before the automotive division.
Today, this firm still operates as parent, founding company of Toyota, and produces fine automotive interiors, advanced composites, and a world of advanced materials for lots of different things from common household goods parts to aerospace industry components.
Another reason Toyota's car interiors are so nicely appointed on many models with top notch crafting and finish.
You can see this intersting history of Toyota at the following museum in Japan, if you are ever in Nagoya. It's a really nice place to see to learn about Toyota, and it's rich history in operation.
http://www.tcmit.org/english/
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