Toyota Yaris: the New Coke of car names?

[shereads]

WTF is a Yaris? What market research guru duped Toyota into naming their new subcompact model the Yaris? The same one who came up with the defunct Ford Aspire?

The Yaris is a cute little car, and was at the top of my list as a possible replacement for the highly collectible 1991 beige Honda Accord I bought two years ago because it was cheaper than repairing the air conditioning in my 1990 Honda, and which you, if you are a connoisseur of vintage automobiles, can own at a price so low, we'd be crazy to publish it here!

Toyotas are about as hard to kill as Hondas, and for the money, the Yaris has a lot going for it. But what happens when I need help finding it in a parking garage, or have to tell a parking valet which car to retrieve? Will I be able to say, "I drive a Yaris" with the same sense of pride I feel when saying, "Mine's the beige Honda...Not that one, the other one...No, not that one, either. The older beige sedan, the one that isn't a Ford Taurus and doesn't have a radio antenna...No, that isn't it either."

Yaris?

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I owned one of those Assfires..... If anyone does own one. A Camaro fuel filter that will run you 65.00 compared to the 500.00 one that Assfires calls for should work for that particular car. My hub was an ASE certified mechanic before he went to work in an Iron/Steel mill. But he found out real quick what parts from older and better cars worked in that Assfire.

Yaris... that just sounds like the name we would have given one of our registered Aryshires down on the farm as a kid.

 

[rgraham666]

I bet the focus groups are now outsourced as well. Since it's cheaper to do everything overseas now.

Yaris is probably the name of some obscure Hindu demi-god.

 

[shereads]

Unused car names that are better than Yaris:

Toyota Spinoza

Toyota Ferret

Toyota Yoda

Toyota Turmoil

Toyota Penis (works well with Prius)

 

[shereads]

My hub was an ASE certified mechanic before he went to work in an Iron/Steel mill.

I'll bet he'd love to get his hands on a vintage 1991 Honda Accord. The color is Bitchin' Beige, the same sexy shade as the suit Chancellor Merkel wore to seduce GWB.

 

[shereads]

I bet the focus groups are now outsourced as well. Since it's cheaper to do everything overseas now.

Yaris is probably the name of some obscure Hindu demi-god.

Toyota Demi-God and Toyota Hindu are both better names than Yaris.

 

[Equinoxe]

Yaris is probably the name of some obscure Hindu demi-god.

Not quite. No, it's based, apparently, on a combination of the German word "Ya" and the Greek Charis, one of the Charities (Graces).

Also, the Toyota Motor Company "apologises for your concern regarding the meaning of 'Yaris'."

 

[McKenna]

Toyota Yoda

Toyota. What a feeling, oh!

 

[3113]

Toyota Yoda...Toyota. What a feeling, oh!

No, this would be: Toyota. Feeling, What a.

http://www.elguaitador.com/starwars/yoda.JPG

 

[ishtat]

Cedric

One of the most popular cars used in Tokyo now is the Nissan Cedric

 

[shereads]

No, this would be: Toyota. Feeling, What a.

http://www.elguaitador.com/starwars/yoda.JPG

You made me snicker. I never snicker and rarely chortle. Don't do it again.

 

[shereads]

One of the most popular cars used in Tokyo now is the Nissan Cedric

The Cedric?

That's Welsh for Yaris, isn't it?

 

[R. Richard]

Back in the 1960s there was a car called, in this country, the Datsun 1600. It was an early sporty car and OK for the time. HOWEVER, for the rest of the world the car was called the Datsun Fairlady.

The Datsun Fairlady manual was written by a Japanese who had once flown over England and had no other connection to either the country of the language. If someone in Literotica has an old Datsun Fairlady manual, you owe it to the rest of us to publish at least the part of the manual that deals with "Breaking In Your Fairlady." It is a total scream!

 

[Guest]

yikes, yugo...yaris....maybe a bit too close.

 

[shereads]

Back in the 1960s there was a car called, in this country, the Datsun 1600. It was an early sporty car and OK for the time. HOWEVER, for the rest of the world the car was called the Datsun Fairlady.

The Datsun Fairlady manual was written by a Japanese who had once flown over England and had no other connection to either the country of the language. If someone in Literotica has an old Datsun Fairlady manual, you owe it to the rest of us to publish at least the part of the manual that deals with "Breaking In Your Fairlady." It is a total scream!

I can't imagine why Datsun thought American men wouldn't want to whip out the cooler and throw a tailgate party from the back of a pink '62 Fairlady.

Other neglected car names:


Cadillac Geezer

Jaguar Trophywife

Hundai Desperado





I could go on and on. And I very well might. I'm so bored with my paying job right now, I could procrastinate with worse threads than this one.

 

[3113]

You made me snicker. I never snicker and rarely chortle. Don't do it again.

http://www.elguaitador.com/starwars/yoda.JPG
Do it again, will I not.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

At the rate that Toyota is chomping up marketshare, they could probablly call it the new Toyota 'Tuba-Rooba' and it wouldn't make any difference.

 

[Stella_Omega]

My son says the Yaris has a built-in MP3 player, and, he says, that's about the only sales pitch he's heard...

My daughter says she'd drive the Toyota Ferret. My husband say he'd prefer a Mitsubishi Mongoose...

 

[SweetPrettyAss]

Toyota has now come out with sort of a cousin called the Scion. They must have hired the designers who worked for American Motors. I mean the ones who designed the Gremlin and that one that looks like a pregnant guppy. The Scions that I have seen are even uglier.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Toyota has now come out with sort of a cousin called the Scion. They must have hired the designers who worked for American Motors. I mean the ones who designed the Gremlin and that one that looks like a pregnant guppy. The Scions that I have seen are even uglier.

They're also about the hottest selling thing on the road right now.

 

[shereads]

Vella, I'd ask the valet to fetch my Toyota Yikes! without hesitation. At least it's ironic.

 

[ibhard]

I just saw the commercial for the Yaris. What a bizarre name for a little car that's sold in the US. It looks sporty, I bet it takes corners on rails and you can get into any parking space (especially between SUVs).

 

[glynndah]

YOu guys obviously aren't tuned into the current mindset of Toyota. Think a combination of Conan and Viking pointing with pride to his newest plunder,
"Yar is my car..."

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I'm still waiting for a vehicle to be named the Pube.
Pontiac got closest with the Vibe, but it's not quite there yet.

 

[minsue]

Toyota. What a feeling, oh!

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