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Postby RomanV » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:28 pm

Just looking up some Botanical terms, as you do...

COROLLA:
the inner whorl of the flower composed of the petals.

CORONA:
the outer edge of a radiated compound flower.

CROWN:
The crown of a plant refers to the totality of the plant's aboveground parts, including stems, leaves, and reproductive structures. A plant canopy consists of one or more plant crowns growing in a given area.

I guess if you think about it, where are Toyotas made? In a plant :lol:

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Postby ~SlideWays~ » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:39 pm

Mind = BLOWN

You must be VERY bored?
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Postby Lith » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:51 pm

LOL!

Thats even more oddball than Mitsi and their horseplay
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Postby RomanV » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:52 pm

Oh, you mean the starion thing?

That got a chuckle out of me, is it true though?

Seems too good to be true.
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Postby Lith » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:07 pm

RomanV wrote:Oh, you mean the starion thing?

That got a chuckle out of me, is it true though?

Seems too good to be true.


Lancer? Colt? Carisma? Canter? Chariot? Eclipse?

Maybe I am reading too much into it...
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Postby Lloyd » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:03 pm

"The name Corolla is part of Toyota's naming tradition of using the name Crown for primary models: the Corona, for example, gets its name from the Latin for crown; Corolla is Latin for small crown; and Camry is an Anglicized pronunciation of the Japanese for crown, kanmuri." - Wiki
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Postby FST4RD » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:42 pm

Starion's weren't named after Stallion like most people think. Japanese don't even have the L sound in their vocab.
Starion was named by Mitsubishi to be a shortened version of "Star of Orion"
Galant was derived from the French word meaning "chivalrous"
Tredia was a shortened version of Three Diamonds etc etc
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Postby RomanV » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:55 pm

FST4RD wrote:Galant was derived from the French word galant


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:lol:

Lloyd wrote:"The name Corolla is part of Toyota's naming tradition of using the name Crown for primary models: the Corona, for example, gets its name from the Latin for crown; Corolla is Latin for small crown; and Camry is an Anglicized pronunciation of the Japanese for crown, kanmuri." - Wiki


[citation needed]

I go by a principal called Occams Lulzor.

If multiple theories are equally plausible, the one that generates the most lulz is the best.
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