TheToyota’s highly reliable 4Y engine.

Toyota has a strong history, starting in 1926 when Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Co., Ltd., now known as Toyota Industries Corporation, was established. Just eight years later Toyota’s first automobile engine was produced: the A-type.

f With more than 150 million engines produced since 1934, Toyota is certainly seasoned in producing quality engines — but not just for automobiles.

Toyota Forklifts Introduced

f In 1956, Toyota began manufacturing engines for industrial usage, such as lift trucks.

f The success and reputation generated from these highly reliable engines served as the foundation for Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. (TMHU) not only becoming the nation’s No. 1 lift truck supplier since 2002, but also retaining that title for the last eight years running.

f Toyota is the world’s best-selling lift truck brand.

4Y Proven Durability

In 1986, Toyota introduced the 4Y industrial engine, which was designed specifically to meet the demands associated with heavy duty industrial applications. The high durability and reliability designed into the 4Y industrial engine made it a perfect match for other products, such as commercial vehicles, compressors, bus coolers and gas heat pumps.

f Today, more than three million Toyota 4Y engines have been built.

Jeffrey Anders, who handles maintenance for Metalcraft of Mayville in Wis., needed a lift truck to haul lumber around his nine-acre farm and purchased a 1989 Toyota forklift from his employer. When asked why he would buy a 20+ year old truck, with 47,000 hours3, his reply was:

“I bought it simply because it was a Toyota. I’ve worked maintenance for 30+ years, and I’ve been at places where

they have other brands of lift trucks. Toyotas are pretty much indestructible.”

1934 1956 1986

Toyota produces its first automobile engine

Toyota begins manufacturing industrial engines

The Toyota 4Y engine is introduced

Toyota: The Industrial Engine Experts

The automotive version of theToyota 4Y is featured in the Toyota Crown Sedan, a popular overseas taxi model, which annually averages more than 67,000 miles.2

1All Toyota 8-Series models count as 0.6 g/bhp-hr (0.8 g/kW-hr) HC+NOx towards California’s end-user fleet average calculation—measures do not apply to diesel configured models2Source: http://blog.betterplace.com/2009/09/why-taxis-why-japan-2/3 Optimized engine longevity is best achieved when following the manufacturer’s suggested planned maintenance schedule.

A Proven Record of Success

1926

Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Co., Ltd. was established

2006

Toyota introduces the world’s cleanest I.C. lift truck, featuring a Toyota 4Y engine1

This lift truck has logged 35,843 hours3 at NTN Driveshaft, Inc. by hauling everything from sheet metal to the finished product in their assembly department.

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f The actual life cycle for most industrial lift truck engines today is between 10,000 to 20,000 hours (equivalent to 300,000-600,000 miles on a car).

f In the U.S., it is common to find Toyota lift trucks operating with 4Y engines that have more than 30,000 hours3(900,000 equivalent road miles), without a major overhaul.

f There are several instances of 4Y engines logging more than 80,000 hours3 (equivalent to 2.4 million miles) without a major overhaul.

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Performance and Environmental Excellence

The 2.2-liter engine with 59 gross horsepower and 118 gross torque uses a lightweight aluminum head for greater efficiency. Electronic control is used on the 4Y-ECS engine, introduced in 2006, to regulate the fuel injection and ignition systems. This is combined with the closed-loop 3-way catalytic converter system to filter out carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) gases.

f The Toyota 4Y industrial engine’s exclusive emissions system not only surpasses current federal EPA emission standards, but also meets California’s more stringent emission standards.

f All Toyota 8-Series gasoline-, LPG- and CNG- configured models produce 70 percent less smog forming emissions than the current federal EPA standards.

Beyond the engine itself, the Hekinan plant in Aichi, Japan, where the 4Y is built also strives to support Toyota Industries Corporation’s Environmental Action Plan to curb global warming, use resources more efficiently and reduce environmental risks by reducing pollution.

f The plant received the Chubu Regional Bureau of International Trade and Industry Director’s Award at the Plant Greening Competition as the “plant most friendly to people and the environment.”

f All Toyota manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Canada, comply with the ISO 14001 standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Fuel EfficiencyIn testing conducted in 2005 by the USAC Properties, Inc., a subsidiary of the United States Auto Club, Inc., Toyota’s 5,000 lb., internal combustion, cushion tire lift truck was named most fuel efficient and most productive.

The Toyota lift truck dramatically outperformed its competition — which consisted of equivalently equipped 5,000-lb. capacity internal combustion models from Caterpillar, Komatsu, Nissan and Yale — by as much as 20 percent in fuel efficiency and almost 11 percent in productivity. It exceeded the average of competitors by 13 percent in fuel efficiency and 8.5 percent in productivity.

Again in 2007, Toyota’s updated truck was one of the top performers in terms

of both fuel efficiency and productivity.

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The Toyota 4Y industrial engine is designed to run on gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), but also continues to hold claim of becoming the world’s first and only UL listed EPA and CARB certified engine to operate on a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuel system.

The impressive hours on these Toyota lift trucks are a strong testament

to the durability of the Toyota 4Y industrial engine,” said Brett Wood,

president of Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. “We are pleased

to have so many working examples of this engine’s longevity and its

continuing contribution to our customers’ success.”

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