T0Y0TA has become a major player in the global auto industry, but like other manufactures it had humble beginnings. Tamiya recreates T0Y0TAs first production car known as the Model AA, which was built by the automobile section of the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works company. The Model AA was their first production car, released in 1936 and as it was still an internal department of Toyoda, this car bears the unfamiliar da ending to the brand name (in 1937 the automobile division became an individual entity and changed to the T0Y0TA name still used today). The Model AA was sold as a domestically designed and produced competitor to U. S. -made cars, its stylish and flowing body mounted on a ladder frame and the whole package powered by a 3.4-liter inline-6 engine. Around 1, 400 AAs rolled out of the factory over its 6 years of production, an important first step in the making of the T0Y0TA brand.