Date:         Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:30:24 PST
Reply-To:     Tony Peet <tpvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tony Peet <tpvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Fwd: Re: Car model names (no vanagon)
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I (believe I) know that some Japanese companies also have a thing about
palindromes (words or expressions that read the same forward and back).
Hence:

A TOYOTA  reads the same forward and back
and

NISSAN is, well, sorta close......etc

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I couldn't believe when I saw that one manufacturer had named their car
"Charade." (!!!!!)  I guess "Hype" or "Snowjob" didn't quite have the same
appeal.

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The question about other 'winds" brings to mind the Tornado and the Duster,
but we're not even close to Friday so I won't go there EXCEPT to ask:

Q.  When were cars first mentioned in the Bible?

(pause)


(ok, here's the answer)



A:  When the lord drove Adam and Eve out of the garden in a Fury.




Please contact your dealer directly.


>From: Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
>Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Car model names
>Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:51:44 -0800
>
>The Toyota rational [if that's the word] was to associate every name with a
>crown as in the leader.  Look at the names again and you'll see that.
>
>Mike
>'85 Westy [no crown]
>
>
> > The Toyota names originally all began with 'C' - Corona, Corolla,
> > Carina, Crown, Cressida, Camry. I think the Starlet was the first
> > non-'C' Toyota name.

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