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Old 03-26-2010, 01:39 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by RWD_only View Post
Toyota will use it's own naming conventions regardless if they made the motor or not. If it is in a Toyota badged product it will have a Toyota based name for the engine. Likewise, I'm sure Subaru will use their traditional naming conventions for their version. I find it highly unlikely but theoretically possible that Toyota could hybridize the naming conventions of both companies and call it the 1EJ-GSE (Toyota does not list displacement when naming their engines .)

So unless this engine represents a new series of engines - in which case (x)J is possible - I believe we will see a continuation of the (x)R series.
Why? Other company's keep the engine's code name if they use other company's engine.
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