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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Whyyyy would you name them that?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.