"Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish" (mrfist)
09/13/2016 at 18:13 • Filed to: Toyota
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"Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish" (mrfist)
09/13/2016 at 18:13 • Filed to: Toyota | 3
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So awhile back I had a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! about what MR2 stood for but I just wanted to share some interesting Toyota knowledge that you can find !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !
Secretly it’s just been too long since I’ve been around. I miss you guys.
yitznewton
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 18:16 |
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Oooh, loving this list. I’ll have to come back later to read the whole thing, as it’s broken on mobile. But they don’t have the Corona or Cressida!
Boosted2k - I Make Videos and Put Them on YouTube
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 18:20 |
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Awesome! Now I can finally correct people who say MR.Two
HammerheadFistpunch
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 18:25 |
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Mid rear 2 wheel drive. The history of the model name for the land cruiser is immeasurably lame for it bring the longest continually used model name in cars
facw
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 18:25 |
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Some of these descriptions sound like they may have been passed through marketing a bit too much.
In any event, perhaps I’ll start referring to the Previa as the MR7...
notsomethingstructural
> yitznewton
09/13/2016 at 18:28 |
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It worked for me on mobile. “Corona” is crown in Spanish which fits the bill if “Camry” is Japanese for the same thing.
I am not sure but “Cressida” may be an interpretation of “crecido” or roughly “grown up” in Spanish. Maybe it's Latin.
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Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/13/2016 at 18:29 |
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But at least it holds up to it’s name. Took a Land Cruiser through Qatari dunes and it definitely performs.
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notsomethingstructural
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 18:30 |
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I got a lot of these, but thought the 2 in MR2 was like a prototype number (like maybe there was a Toyota MR at some point). I had heard the actual source though, so it was a bit of a face palm after.
InFierority Complex
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/13/2016 at 18:32 |
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I don’t know, the Suburban has been a name since the 30s hasn’t it?
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HammerheadFistpunch
> InFierority Complex
09/13/2016 at 18:35 |
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As the carryall suburban
AuthiCooper1300
> notsomethingstructural
09/13/2016 at 18:41 |
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Ever heard of Troilus and Cressida , by a certain W.S.? (although he did not invent the character of Cressida, which more or less is of Greek origin.).
Again, nothing related to “grow” in Spanish (although who knows what the person who dreamed up the name was actually thinking about.)
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AuthiCooper1300
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 18:42 |
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“Celica” does not mean anything in Spanish. And no, it doesn’t even sound remotely similar to anything related to “celestial” or “heavenly”. Incidentally, the Spanish word for “celestial” is... celestial.
More than a just a prefix, Latin
supra
is an adverb or a preposition. And prius, in Latin, can be an adverb or, indeed, a adjective, but to my knowledge it is not a prefix.
You would think that someone would have fact-checked that list before publication.
But then you can read Autodromo *Naziona
r
e Monza later in the list, so...
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AuthiCooper1300
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 18:45 |
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By the way, in French, if I remember correctly, saying MR2 would sound more or less the same as “emmerdeux”. Which does not really mean anything but sounds close to
emmerder
(“to be annoying”).
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notsomethingstructural
> AuthiCooper1300
09/13/2016 at 18:50 |
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I’m aware of the concept of Cressida as a cheating lover but that’s about the extent of it. Seems like a strange thing to name a car after.
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AuthiCooper1300
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/13/2016 at 18:55 |
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I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that “land cruiser” was the name that Churchill had thought of for what we know today as “tanks”. Bear in mind that Winston had been the First Lord of the Admiralty (in that capacity he precisely managed to fuck up big time with the landings in the Dardanelles...) so he was very much into the navy thing.
It would be supreme ironic that Toyota would choose precisely that name, don’t you think?
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AuthiCooper1300
> notsomethingstructural
09/13/2016 at 19:01 |
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Well, I’ve heard that during the Apollo programme NASA almost named a pairing of command module and lunar module as Samson and Delilah, until someone pointed out the rather tragic fate of the two characters.
Car companies used to make this kind of mistakes all the time. Maybe the marketing specialist in question just had a look at Shakespeare’s plays for inspiration, without realising what the name actually conveyed.
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AuthiCooper1300
> AuthiCooper1300
09/13/2016 at 19:13 |
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On second thoughts, maybe it was not “Samson and Delilah” but “Othello and Desdemona”... sorry, I’ll have to check it up.
But basically a rather unfortunate suggestion for spacecraft names anyways.
Probenja
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 19:38 |
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You can find THE ENTIRE Toyota models names here:
http://www.toyota-global.com/company/histor…
It includes the meaning of the name and some specs.
PotbellyJoe and 42 others
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/13/2016 at 19:40 |
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The joke in Toyota sales meetings (especially when the Solara debuted) was that they were made up of words that were very difficult for a native Japanese speaker. But that’s mean.
Batman the Horse
> Boosted2k - I Make Videos and Put Them on YouTube
09/13/2016 at 20:34 |
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Out, but with a W - has found the answer
> AuthiCooper1300
09/14/2016 at 07:29 |
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*est merdeux = is shitty
So in France it’s the Toyota MR.
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AuthiCooper1300
> Out, but with a W - has found the answer
09/14/2016 at 07:31 |
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You are so right! Never thought of reading it that way.
Thanks!
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Out, but with a W - has found the answer
> AuthiCooper1300
09/14/2016 at 07:59 |
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No problem, came across it when looking for my car. Both French and Dutch are spoken in Belgium, so I had been wondering why some sites had Toyota MR and others MR2.
Nauraushaun
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/14/2016 at 08:47 |
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I always thought the R was for Rear, not Runabout. I don’t like runabout as much, makes it sound more like an economy car than a sports car - ie. the thing that killed the Fiero.
MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig
> Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
09/14/2016 at 10:29 |
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That is actually incorrect. It’s Midship Runabout 2-seater. From the mouth of Toyota reps back when it first came out in 84 for the 85 model year.
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MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig
> notsomethingstructural
09/14/2016 at 10:32 |
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The prototype was the SV-3, so that doesn’t even make sense.
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MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig
> Nauraushaun
09/14/2016 at 10:33 |
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It was always supposed to be a mid engine car that you could drive every day, be reliable, and get good fuel economy - hence “runabout”
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notsomethingstructural
> MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig
09/14/2016 at 10:50 |
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Didn't know that. Thanks.
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Nauraushaun
> MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig
09/14/2016 at 18:11 |
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But I want to believe it’s a sports car too! Chiefly a sports car.