You Say Toyoda, We Say Toyota: How The Automaker Got Its Name
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From: sjmmail2000-247 on 25 Feb 2010 02:11 In 1936, Kiichiro Toyoda built an automobile company from a business that manufactured textile looms. Both firms were named after his surname. We've always wondered: Why the change from "d" to "t"? When Toyoda decided to start building cars, he needed a name for his new venture. His first business, the humbly named Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd., was founded in 1926 by his father, Sakichi Toyoda. Keeping with tradition, he decided to name his car company in the same fashion. In order to drum u... Read More: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~3/jLFSW4wOYr8/you-say-toyoda-we-say-toyota-how-the-automaker-got-its-name ----------------------------------- Toyota NewsHub: Latest auto news sourced from websites, portals and blogs http://www.carshops247.co.uk/news/Toyota.html
From: Hachiroku on 25 Feb 2010 10:15
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:11:51 -0600, sjmmail2000-247 wrote: > In 1936, Kiichiro Toyoda built an automobile company from a business > that manufactured textile looms. Both firms were named after his > surname. We've always wondered: Why the change from "d" to "t"? When > Toyoda decided to start building cars, he needed a name for his new > venture. His first business, the humbly named Toyoda Automatic Loom > Works Ltd., was founded in 1926 by his father, Sakichi Toyoda. Keeping > with tradition, he decided to name his car company in the same fashion. > In order to drum u... Read More: > http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~3/jLFSW4wOYr8/you-say-toyoda- we-say-toyota-how-the-automaker-got-its-name > > ----------------------------------- > Toyota NewsHub: Latest auto news sourced from websites, portals and > blogs http://www.carshops247.co.uk/news/Toyota.html They thought buyers in other countries would like it better. |