Toyota Corolla Celebrates Its Fiftieth Birthday

A ceremony at the Toyota Motor Takaoka Plant in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, celebrating the 10 millionth Corolla rolling off the production line in March 1983. (© Jiji.)

Hasegawa Tatsuo, chief engineer for the first-generation Corolla (courtesy of Toyota Motor).

The current eleventh-generation Corolla (photo by the author).