Remember when the Corolla Sportivo came out??

 

The slogan was:

 

"Corolla by name, not by nature."

 

Any thoughts on exactly WHY Toyota chose this slogan?? (Corolla History Buffs will get it straight away)

 

 

f@$k I laughed when I saw the first advertisment using this slogan... Marketing Genuis

 

 

 

Thoughts??

(scratches head)

:(

 

hahahahaha

Probably because, sadly, the rest of the country considers Corollas to be, well, about as interesting as penguin snot.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, it is up to us to correct that impression......

Yeah I didnt get it at all either. They're basically saying that corollas are boring shopping trolleys...

 

Never fear! I'm doing my part to dispell the myth. :(

pfft, what do they know!?

 

for corollas to be slow common cars they'd have to have small engines and have production numbers in the hundreds of thousands for each model and - oh hold on a sec :(

 

or maybe they mean the new ones are unreliable and easy to kill

it must be hard to market something that looks like a toaster....

dosn't corolla mean flower? correct me if I'm wrong might probly just internet bullshit

yes, that's true. before 1968 when toyota released the ke10, the world "corolla" was purely a botantical term, and had been for a very long time

 

by definition, the corolla of a flower is the part it uses to attract insects to the flower, for the purposes of getting them to spread pollen. the corolla is divided into segments, each segment is called a "petal"

So Toyota were basically saying that the new Corolla was a flower by name, but not a flower by nature - ie it wasn't really weak in it's nature.

to me, they were referring more to its' reputation as a common plain slow small car. sure, i love the damn things, but they're not exactly a rare or exotic performance car by any means

 

it's a saying that's pretty open to interpretation. it means what you want it to mean, like art :(

A lot of old toyotas have a name that relates to part of a flower. Corona, Crown etc.

yes, that's true. before 1968 when toyota released the ke10, the world "corolla" was purely a botantical term, and had been for a very long time

 

by definition, the corolla of a flower is the part it uses to attract insects to the flower, for the purposes of getting them to spread pollen. the corolla is divided into segments, each segment is called a "petal"

 

 

CORRECT!!! Give the man a Freddo Frog!! :)

 

How'd I know you'd get it Jamie!! :(

 

 

Next one:

 

Why are the 'Hot' versions of the Corolla called "Levins"??

Levin being the greek word for lightning.

Whats also interesting is that trueno is the greek word for thunder.

Never knew that. Thunder and Lightning, that's pretty cool actually.

Ahh... I didn't know that either!!

 

Apperently Levin was the name of the racetrack where the first Corolla racing victory happened. Not 100% sure tho