# Letters T-O-Y-O-T-A in the Toyota emblem **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921 "2009-01-12T16:16:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921/41 "2009-01-13T22:06:00Z")
BTW, have you ever noticed that the Coca-Cola logo spells out the word “Coca-Cola”? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921/42 "2009-01-13T22:54:43Z")
Now you’re just messing with us. On the other hand, the Taco Bell logo obviously hides the secret message, “Chuck E Cheese is Satan’s prophet, and when the mouse tells you to burn down the local shopping mall, you will obey.” ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921/43 "2009-01-14T00:09:41Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > \ > Similarly, check out the arrow in the [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) logo. I always thought it was a smiley mouth, but it’s an arrow pointing from A to Z. I was working at Amazon when they debuted that logo. We received complaints from people that thought it looked like a devil tail. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921/44 "2009-01-14T02:11:49Z")
The [Washington State University](http://www.pkmeco.com/images/wsu.jpg) Cougars have done a nice job with this. Props too, to the[Whale](http://hitch50.com/uploaded_images/whalers-701605.jpg)(Hartford Whalers). ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921/45 "2009-01-14T04:38:23Z")
Okay, you whooshed me with this one. I had an '86 Camry that threw a rod in 2001. Good times, we had, that car and I. I popped the nameplate off the trunk and kept it for a souvenir. It sat on my kitchen windowsill for the next 7 years. So when you said “Toyota emblem,” that’s what I thought of. And I spent a lot of time wondering what the heck I was missing. I mean, of course I could see all the letters. The old name plate was just “TOYOTA” spelled out in block letters. I finally clicked on your link. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921/46 "2009-01-14T04:48:52Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Oh, nonsense! It’s a man in a sombrero! When the Toyota logo was introduced, the joke around Toyota Corporate was that it was actually the new Taco Bell logo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921/47 "2009-01-14T16:29:52Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > A friend and I were stargazing a couple of weeks ago, and he noticed the Pleiades was the Subaru symbol. I’d never noticed it before. He asked if Subaru was the name of one of the stars, and I told him it wasn’t in Greek, but maybe in Japanese. We checked Wikipedia when we got back, and sure enough “Subaru” is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster. Very cool! 🆒 In my younger days, I was \*\*very \*\*into astronomy (still am, I just don’t spend half the time on it that I used to.) My brother recently bought a WRX and excitedly came up to me one day, “ **Snicks**! Did you know that my car’s logo is…” “…the Pleiades?” I finished for him. He was a little disappointed that I already knew. But to be fair, it’s pretty recognizable for anyone who spends even a little bit of time looking at the stars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letters-t-o-y-o-t-a-in-the-toyota-emblem/480921.md?page=2)