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[–] kagrocery@midwest.social 40 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Whyyyy would you name them that?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because they don't actually want to sell any, but they'd like to stop all the bad press that Toyota is actively lobbying governments against EVs adoption to prop up their very profitable ICE engine cars.

[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

They have an existing model (BZ3) and they just put X and C on the end. They did the same thing with the Prius derivatives a few years back.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Toyota doesn't typically name things with random hard consonants and numbers. But Subaru does, and they're a partner in Toyota's EV program.

[–] kagrocery@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Everybody replying to give me logical thought out answers is not addressing the real problem of why would Toyota name their cars such an awful, forgettable key-mash of a name.

[–] ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Keysmash names ftw

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I have a monitor named that!

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago

Smart. Naming it the same as the SKU code.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So the bz3c is a Model Y and the bz3c is a... big chungus that's totally not a minivan, look Karen, it's tall and aggressive

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol it's a minivan with the freedom to let your kids ding the doors of whoever is parked next to you

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

And a smaller cargo area that you can't fit a sheet of plywood in!

[–] Tobberone@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Is this the onion? Really? Bisex? That's a name I never thought I'd see on a product from a international company.