The story
- Japanese · borrowed fromトヨタ
- English todayToyota
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.