Definitions of Toyota Model Names

[Jerzy Woking]

Spoke to my mate today who told me he saw a Toyota Vellfire today and wondered what it meant.

Google found me this:

https://www.toyota-global.com/company/h ... cteristics

Some model names are a bit odd in today's world Toyota ISIS anyone?

[PhilA]

They came up with some really odd names by taking the first syllable of each word, in the same way you could in Japanese; however in English that doesn't always tally as to the structure or even the word they're trying to mimic.

For instance, the Fu-Qu would be ideal in their logic. The Future Quest.

Hey man. What's that car you're driving?
A Toyota Fu-Qu.
No need to be like that, I was only asking...

[Asimo]

MR2

Midship
Runabout
2 seater

It says so on the luggage box.

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If I had noticed that bit of wankery I would never have bought one.

[Hooli]

Took me years to find out why the MK2 Mr Two had Zogativ written on the back. It was an utterly wank font saying 2.0gti

[DodgeRover]

I hate those type of hard to read fonts with a passion, I was once asked what I thought to a job somebody else had signed up, very pretty I said but nobody will be able to read what ever it might say.

[mercrocker]

I thought MR2 was just French for "shit".

[Broccoli]

Merd!

And amazingly, they have the Toyota Racing Division (TRD) or Turd.

So if they racing division ever had their hands on an MR2, it would have been a Merd Turd!

[Missy Charm]

Many moons ago whilst temporarily living in Australia we, I say 'we' but mean my parents as I was a child at the time, owned a Toyota Hiace camper van. My dad, being unfamiliar, didn't immediately twig that the name 'Hiace' was a portmanteau of the English words 'high' and 'ace'. Instead, he thought 'Hiace' was actually a Japanese word and made up a Japanese pronunciation to suit, calling his camper van a 'Toyota Hi-Ah-Chi'.

[paulplom]

The first work van the company had when I was a 16 year old apprentice was an A reg toyota hi a kee. Or that's how I told my mates it was pronounced. Your dad wasn't the only one.

[Hooli]

When I worked at a Volvo dealer the owner also owned dealers for other makes & we tried to convince him his car was a a Honda Leg-end.