Toyota Auto Body will also continue to make every effort to build ever-better vehicles as a specialist and independent automaker.

Toyota Auto Body was established in 1945 as a company specializing in the manufacture of truck bodies after Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (the forerunner of today's Toyota Motor Corporation) decided to spin-off its Kariya Plant. Since then, it has expanded into a full-scale manufacturer of completed vehicles, taking on the development and production of such models as the Hiace, Land Cruiser, and Coaster, playing a role at the heart of Toyota's van, SUV, and commercial vehicle business. From 2000, Toyota Auto Body began developing and producing minivans, a rapidly expanding key segment of the Japanese vehicle market. By 2017, annual minivan production at Toyota Auto Body had grown steadily to around 700,000 units.

Subsequently, in January 2018, Toyota Auto Body became responsible for new product planning within the van business, thereby adding the planning function to its existing organization and creating an integrated framework encompassing the planning, development, and production of van-type models.

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