Toyota Motor Corp. recently announced the winners of its Toyota Dream Car Art Contest — which aims to create opportunities for children to develop an interest in cars by inspiring them to draw their “dream cars.”

The automaker presented three Gold Prize awards, six Silver Prize awards, nine Bronze Prize awards, one Akira Toriyama Prize award — named after the creator of the popular Japanese manga series Dragon Ball — one President Toyoda Prize award and 72 additional prizes, coming to a total of 90 winners.

Thirty winners from 15 different countries attended the ceremony at the Toyota Kaikan to receive their prizes.

At the awards ceremony, Akio Toyoda, TMC president, expressed his enthusiasm for and the importance of the next generations “dreams”, saying, "I hope to realize and present to the world as many of your dream cars as possible.

“It is your ideas that will help us create the automobiles of the future, and I hope you will continue to share them with us,” he continued.

The contest was open to children ages 15 years and below in 50 countries and regions around the world.

National contests were held in each participating country and region in February, and the world contest was held in Japan in May, with winners of the Bronze Prize, Silver Prize, Gold Prize, Akira Toriyama Prize, President Toyoda Prize and other awards selected from the winning entries of the national contests.

This is the fifth year the contest has been held, since the first occured in 2004, and the automaker has received approximately 120,000 entries from around the world since that time, officials noted.