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Re: Old school toyota symbol

Tue, 21 September 2004 12:31

SIMDOG wrote on Tue, 21 September 2004 22:20

Apparently the story went that the family name was Toyoda... They originally started out with the Toyoda family Automatic Loom works. The family then expanded into designing and producing cars and trucks. It was around the end of 1936 they decided to change the company name from Toyoda to Toyota.

The reason is because Toyota is easier to pronounce internationally, and also because the name is written in Katakana and it has exactly 8 strokes, and 8 is considered a lucky number in Japan. If Toyota is written in hiragana it has a different number of strokes. Also, the family name Toyoda is written differently with a different number of strokes too.
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