Up and down American highways since 1995, it’s remarkably nimble for a pickup truck. Of course, many drivers assume the model name refers to a city in Washington state. Actually, it is not. so where Do you The name comes from?
How did the Toyota Tacoma get its name?
According to Puyallup Historical Preservation Officer Brandon Renon, Tacoma is a Native word for a mountain that was renamed by a British explorer in the 18th century. This is the real source of the truck board.
The people of the tribes in and around the Puget Sound region pronounce it “Tacoma” or “Tahoma” and this name means “mother of all waters”.
Renon went on to explain that George Vancouver, the first non-native to set eyes on the majestic snow-capped summit, arbitrarily named a number of things without consulting the locals.
Vancouver named the mountain that means so much to the locals after his good friend, Royal Navy officer Peter Rainier. Rainier, who eventually attains the rank of admiral, reveals that he fought the colonists in the American Revolutionary War.
A brief history of the Toyota Tacoma
Founded by Japanese businessman Sakichi Toyoda in 1926 as a way to sell the automatic looms he had invented, Toyoda Industries didn’t manufacture cars until it was ten years old.
In 1936, the company changed its name from Toyoda to. There are a number of theories to explain the change, including preferred Japanese pronunciation as well as the number of brushstrokes required to write the kanji form of a word, he says. ’36 also saw the debut of Toyota’s first truck in Tokyo, the G1.
It continued to make a limited number of trucks, including KB and KC, through World War II. Remarkably, Toyota was one of the few Japanese companies whose manufacturing facilities were spared from the conflict.
With the debut of the Tacoma in the mid-1990s, Toyota clearly exceeded public expectations for a compact truck. Drivers like anti-lock brakes, stability control, and daytime running lights helped make the Tacoma as popular as a passenger car as it was as a freight carrier. The rest is history.
The future of both Tacomas
Toyota Tacoma has earned its place on American roads and is not going away anytime soon. But what about the source of the name Tacoma, you ask?
If the Pacific Northwest tribes like the Puyallup, Squaxin Island, Coast Salish, Muckleshoot, Yakama, and Suquamish, the original name of the 14311 ice-capped mountain would be restored.
There is precedent for this, as a similar situation occurred in Alaska in 2015, when the culturally significant Mount McKinley was renamed Denali, after a decades-long campaign by indigenous people.
