Shoichiro Toyoda, who made Toyota a global automaker, dead at 97

Shoichiro Toyoda, grandson of Toyota founder Sikichi Toyoda and son of Kiichiro Toyoda, who transformed the tooling company into an automaker, is dead at 97. Shoichiro grew the company from a local brand into the world's largest and most successful, and formalized its legendary quality control and managerial philosophies. — Read the rest