what about history of sarao motors
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Sarao Motors, Inc. is a Filipino automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Brgy.
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Sarao Motors, Inc. is a Filipino automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Brgy. Pulang Lupa in the city of Las Piñas in Metro Manila, Philippines. The company designs, engineers, manufactures and distributes the jeepney, the most popular form of transportation in the country, labeled as the 'king of the road' in the Philippines.[2][3]
Sarao Motors, Inc.
Sarao Motors jeepney 1988.jpg
A 1988 Sarao Motors jeepney
Type
Private
Industry
Automotive
Founded
1953 (as an automotive shop)
1962 (as a corporation)
Founder
Leonardo S. Sarao
Headquarters
Barangy. Pulang Lupa, Las Piñas, Philippines
Area served
Nationwide
Key people
Rafael Sarao, Sr.
Ernesto Sarao
Eduardo Sarao
Products
Jeepney
Production output
12 to 15 units per day (peak)[1]
Subsidiaries
Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicles Philippines
Sarao promoted the jeepney as a symbol of Philippine culture. A Sarao was exhibited at the Philippine pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair as a national image for the Filipinos.[2][4] In 1971, a Sarao jeepney traveled from Manila to London and all over Europe as the Philippine icon of the London-Manila Express, a roadshow sponsored by the Philippine Tourism and Travel Association to boost the country's tourism and industry to European countries.[5][6][7]
Sarao is also a manufacturer of owner-type, custom-built jeepneys and other type of vehicles for schools, businesses and other institutions. Pope John Paul II rode on a specially built owner-type jeepney by Sarao during his first travel to the country in 1981.[8]
On October 2, 2000 Sarao Motors was forced to halt jeepney production due to rising costs.[9] Sarao Motors' employees were downsized from 300 to only 50. The collection department was the only part of the company that remained operational.[10] Sarao Motors eventually resumed its operation albeit in a lesser scale.[11][12]