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Subject: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 29 Sep 13 - 09:00 PM ...the only automobile model to have been named after a plant? I'm damned if I can think of another one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: Rapparee Date: 29 Sep 13 - 09:42 PM Hmmm...the Chrysler Le Baron was named after a cut of beef. Ford Fungi sound good. There's the Senna -- no, sorry, that's "Sienna" because Senna if a laxative. How about the Chevy Chewbacca? Or the Willys Willow? Or the Nash Nasturtium? Or the Geo Metro (which WAS a vegetable)? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: JohnInKansas Date: 30 Sep 13 - 02:00 AM I'm told that the recently discontinued Chevy HHR was named for "fatheads." (The claim is that HHR is for "High Head Room" but Chevy doesn't admit to it so far as I can tell.) Maybe it was really for people who wear tall hats, and "Lincoln" was already taken? John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: gnomad Date: 30 Sep 13 - 04:24 AM Datsun Cherry, don't know if you got that one stateside, there were lots of them in 70s UK. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: Pete Jennings Date: 30 Sep 13 - 05:45 AM The 70s, when it used to rain Datsun cogs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: gnomad Date: 30 Sep 13 - 06:33 AM There was also a Citroen traction Bamboo roadster, they later revived the name for a 2CV paintjob (green) called the Bamboo. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Sep 13 - 07:03 AM On the basis that model name is usually taken to include the maker's name ... Any model from 'Lotus' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: Rapparee Date: 30 Sep 13 - 08:44 AM There was the Mazda "Marijuana" but it went up in smoke. The universal joints would catch fire and the interior was always full of crumbs and things. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: severed-head Date: 30 Sep 13 - 09:58 AM The Nissan Leaf? Not exactly a plant, but it's close! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: Mr Red Date: 30 Sep 13 - 10:23 AM Hey - they are all made in Car Plants............ AND one Rolls Royce would have been called the Silver Mist - until they realised the word meant dung heap in German - and you put that on plants......... I'll get my top coat - it is also red |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: pdq Date: 30 Sep 13 - 10:33 AM Sequoyah was a Cherokee Indian who developed their written alphabet. He was also know as George Gist or George Guest in English. I believe that Pontiac was also an Indian so there is a long history of this type of car name. The Sequoia tree was named for George Guest and the national park name for the tree. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 Sep 13 - 11:27 AM Lotus! Of course! And, come to think of it, the Sequoia is the SUV version of Toyota's Tundra pickup truck which is named after, not merely a plant, but an entire biome. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: pdq Date: 30 Sep 13 - 12:18 PM Actually, I can't think of another make of car that was named after an American indian (other that Pontiac), but a model of Jeep is named after the tribe Cherokee. Using my biology background, I can be certain that the petals of a flower (collectively) are know as the corolla, so one does not have to leave the Toyota brand to find a model named after a plant (actually a part thereof). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Toyota Sequoia... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 Sep 13 - 04:54 PM Dodge had a model called the Seneca back in the early '60s. I have no idea whether it was named after the Seneca Indian tribe or the Roman statesman. (The "sameness" of their names is pure coincidence.) |
