Toyoda ?

[JimL]

Anyone reckon this is a spelling mistake ????

[TAZMAN]

Anyone reckon this is a spelling mistake ????

Nah, I reckon de had da cold ad duh time of it being cast..ed.

[JimL]

I'd heard about it but hadnt seen it. Its on the bottom front of the steering box and its apparently what they are called in Japanese.

[rusty]

I'd heard about it but hadnt seen it. Its on the bottom front of the steering box and its apparently what they are called in Japanese.

I wonder what they call L/R???

[marky]

BLITISH REYRAND ARE CLAP

[da SLUG man]

wierd... we were talking about this at uxbridge as TonyN's mk1 has TOYODA on the engine...

apparntly it's Mr Toyoda that started the company but they changed it to Toyota cos it sounded more western.... dunno what cowboy films had to do with it though??

[rusty]

wierd... we were talking about this at uxbridge as TonyN's mk1 has TOYODA on the engine...

apparntly it's Mr Toyoda that started the company but they changed it to Toyota cos it sounded more western.... dunno what cowboy films had to do with it though??

Hmmm I wonder if that's where "Land Rover" got their name from then - definately a bit "cowboy" now

[Rob]

Got Toyoda stamped all over my 3rd gen too

http://www.fact-index.com/t/to/toyota.html

[Fish]

I wonder what they call L/R???

HIDARI
"Left".

MIGI
"Right"



Fish

[rob88]

Just near B&Q in coventry there is a large Toyoda factory.

I think they are a maufacturing place that make machine parts.

Maybe toyoda make parts for toyotas.

[Bryan]

Toyoda is a family name in Japan, I'm not sure that Toyota is. The change could just have been based on pronounciation as the kana characters for "ta" and "da" are basically the same (た=ta, だ=da). Their marketing may have changed it to differentiate, who knows.

Bryan

[da SLUG man]

Just near B&Q in coventry there is a large Toyoda factory.

I think they are a maufacturing place that make machine parts.

Maybe toyoda make parts for toyotas.

there's one along the A14 too... um near that place just below huntingdon i think