[SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][SIZE=1]...хотел добавить для тех, кто может не знает, расшифровку RAV-4
"recreational active vehicle with four-wheel drive" Вольный перевод - 4-х приводной автомобиль для развлечений и отдыха.
Хотелось бы узнать иные версии перевода на русский, а то все рав да рав... а как по русски то правильно перевести?
А вот инфо о происхождении слово Тойота.
History
Origins in Toyota Automatic Loom -1936
The origins of the company are found as an automobile section of Toyoda Automatic Loom, implemented in September 1933
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Establishment of Toyota Motor Co. and WWII 1936-1946
Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent company in 1937 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century. Although the founding family name is Toyoda (豊田), the company name was changed to Signify the separation of the founders' work life from home life; Simplify the pronunciation, and
Give the company an auspicious beginning.
Toyota (トヨタ) is considered luckier than Toyoda (トヨダ) due to the fact that eight is a lucky number, and is the number of strokes it takes to write Toyota in Katakana
Katakana (片仮名, literally: "fragmentary kana") are a Japanese syllabary, one of four Japanese writing systems (the others are hiragana, kanji and rōmaji).
Katakana are characterized by squarish lines and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts.
Katakana are used for:
Emphasis, like italics in English.
Onomatopoeia, for example hii ヒー means "sigh".
Names of animal and plant species.
Transliteration of words from foreign languages, for example "television" is written terebi テレビ.
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Toyota also contributes a great amount of research to cleaner-burning vehicles (See: Toyota Prius). In 2002, Toyota successfully road-tested a new version of the RAV4 which ran on a Hydrogen Fuel Cell. Scientific American made the company its Business Leader of the Year in 2003 for commercializing an affordable hybrid car. In 2004, Toyota showed that it had made its Highlander into the world's first mass-market seven-passenger hybrid SUV (CanadianDriver Communications, 2004).
In 2003, Toyota brought two of their popular cars from Japan (including the bB) to America, and created a new badge, called Scion, meaning a descendant or heir. These cars are targeted towards the young, and young-at-heart. Both models, the xA and xB are powered by a 1.5L DOHC I4 engine taken right out of the Toyota Echo, a derivative work of the Toyota Tercel.
Toyota has also been successful in racing, especially in Rally with the Toyota Celica. In 2002 Toyota started racing in Formula One with the Toyota Team Europe (TTE) and is based in Cologne (Germany).
Toyota is also famous in industry for its manufacturing philosophy, called the Toyota Production System. This system is copied worldwide by many manufacturing companies.
Namesakes
Toyota is also a city in Aichi, Japan, named after the corporation. The basketball and hockey stadium in Houston, Texas, the Toyota Center, is also named after the company.
A partial list of automobiles
The following is a partial list of cars Toyota actually produced, or at least planned to produce.
Current and Past Production Vehicles
Toyota Altezza
Toyota Avalon
Toyota Avensis
Toyota bB
Toyota Caldina
Toyota Camry
Toyota Camry Solara
Toyota Celica
Toyota Crown
Toyota Corolla
Toyota Matrix
Toyota Echo
Toyota FJ40
Toyota Highlander
Toyota ist
Toyota Land Cruiser
Toyota MR2
Toyota Paseo
Toyota Prius
Toyota RAV4
Toyota Sienna
Toyota Soarer
Toyota Starlet
Toyota Supra
Toyota Tacoma
Toyota Tercel
Toyota Tundra
Concepts
The following is a partial list of concept cars Toyota developed.
Toyota FTX
See also
Lexus, Scion, Eiji Toyoda.