The Perfect Journey for Your Family

About Tawara Star

Founded in 1972 by visionary engineer Hiroshi Tawara, Tawara Star began with a simple but revolutionary idea: to create safe, reliable, and comfortable vehicles specifically designed for families. Five decades later, that mission remains at the heart of everything we do.

What started as a small workshop in Osaka has grown into a global automotive leader, with manufacturing facilities on five continents and over 25,000 dedicated employees worldwide. Despite our growth, we've maintained the values of quality, innovation, and family-focus that defined our earliest days.

The name "Star" reflects our commitment to excellence and our goal to be a guiding light in family transportation. Every Tawara Star vehicle is designed with the understanding that a car is more than just a way to get from point A to point Bit's where memories are made, conversations happen, and families grow closer together.

Our Family Car Models

Tawara Star offers a complete range of family vehicles, from compact hatchbacks perfect for growing families to spacious SUVs designed for adventure. Every model combines safety, efficiency, and comfort in equal measure.

Innovative Family Features

At Tawara Star, we understand that modern families have unique needs. Our vehicles are packed with innovative features designed to make your life easier, safer, and more enjoyable.

Our Family Focus Technology (FFT) suite includes:

• Child Presence Alert: Sensors monitor the rear seats and alert you if a child or pet remains in the vehicle after you've walked away.
• Smart Rear Seat Mirror: An integrated camera display in the dashboard lets you keep an eye on rear-facing children without taking your eyes off the road.
• Family Voice Command: Voice control specifically designed for families, allowing you to adjust temperature, entertainment, and even answer simple questions from curious children.
• Trauma Alert System: In the event of a significant impact, the vehicle can automatically contact emergency services and provide your location and basic vehicle information.
• Destination Reminder: Never forget a school drop-off or soccer practice again with customizable destination reminders integrated into your navigation system.

Our entertainment systems are designed with the whole family in mind. The optional rear-seat entertainment package includes dual screens, wireless headphones, and individual content streaming capabilities.

Safety as Our Priority

At Tawara Star, safety isn't just a featureit's the foundation of everything we do. Every vehicle we produce undergoes rigorous testing that exceeds industry standards, and our commitment to protecting families has earned us consistent top ratings in safety assessments worldwide.

• Tawara Star Impact Protection System: Our proprietary frame design disperses impact energy away from the passenger compartment, providing exceptional protection in all types of collisions.
• 360-Degree Awareness Suite: Cameras and sensors monitor the vehicle's surroundings, warning you of potential hazards and even intervention when necessary to prevent accidents.
• Advanced Collision Mitigation: Automatic braking system that can detect pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles, intervening when necessary to prevent or mitigate collisions.
• Family-Specific Safety Testing: We conduct additional safety tests specifically focused on the protection of children in various car seat configurations.

We're particularly proud of our innovative Family Zone technology, which creates a virtual protective bubble around your vehicle when children are present. Using radar and camera technology, the system identifies potential threats and warns you with the urgency appropriate to the risk.

Environmental Responsibility

We believe that protecting our children's future means protecting the environment they'll inherit. Tawara Star is committed to sustainable manufacturing practices and developing technologies that reduce environmental impact without compromising safety or performance.

Our Green Horizon Initiative is guided by several key principles:

• Carbon Neutral Operations: All Tawara Star facilities worldwide are powered by renewable energy, and we've been carbon neutral in our operations since 2020.
• Electrification Strategy: We're transitioning our entire product line to include electrified options, with a commitment to cease production of traditional internal combustion engines by 2035.
• Sustainable Materials: Increasing use of recycled and renewable materials in our vehicles, from recycled ocean plastics in interior components to sustainable wood alternatives for trim.
• Efficiency Focus: Continuous improvement in aerodynamics, weight reduction, and powertrain efficiency across all models to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.

Our hybrid technology, EcoPower, is available across all model lines and offers exceptional efficiency without the compromise in performance or interior space that some competitors require.

The Future of Family Transportation

At Tawara Star, we're constantly looking forward, developing technologies that will transform how families experience transportation. From autonomous driving capabilities to vehicle-to-vehicle communication, our research and development teams are pioneering the future of family mobility.

Our investment in future technologies focuses on several key areas:

• Family-Focused Autonomy: Developing autonomy features that specifically address family challengeshands-free features for parent needs, automatic route optimization based on family schedules, and passenger interaction systems.
• Vehicle-to-Everything Communication: Creating a connected ecosystem where your vehicle communicates with other vehicles, infrastructure, and even your smart home to create a seamless transportation experience.
• Personalized Interior Environments: AI-powered systems that learn your family's preferences for lighting, temperature, music, and even scent, automatically adjusting to create the perfect environment for each journey.
• Dynamic Interior Configurations: Flexible vehicle interiors that can physically adapt to different needsexpanding cargo space when shopping, creating conversation modes during long trips, or transforming into mobile work/school spaces.

Perhaps most exciting is our Family Mobility Concept vehicle, currently in development. This revolutionary vehicle reimagines what a family car can be, featuring a completely flexible interior that can transform from a comfortable seven-seater to a mobile playroom, a quiet study area, or a party van with the touch of a button.

As we look to the future, our commitment remains the same: to provide families with vehicles that make life better, safer, and more enjoyable. Whether through advanced safety features, environmental responsibility, or innovative convenience technologies, Tawara Star will continue to lead the way in family transportation for generations to come.