Toyota
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A surname from Japanese.
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A surname from Japanese.
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A city in Aichi, Japan. A city near Nagoya, where the eponymous manufacturer has its headquarters.
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The Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars.
So vehicles, like some Toyota Corollas, have a 160-mph speedometer despite coming nowhere close to reaching such speeds.
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A brand of car manufactured by Toyota.
It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.
Etimologia
Borrowed from Japanese トヨタ (Toyota), from the name of the Toyoda family. The spelling was changed to Toyota because of a belief that it sounded better, or because トヨタ takes eight strokes to write, and 8 is considered lucky.
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A car of the brand Toyota
Formas
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- Toyotas