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Originally Posted by Moto Miwa
There may be many different reasons why a product name can be one thing or another, from marketing teams, the millions at stake for finance, hopes for many engineers, global PR teams trying to educate and unify a product identity, hobbyists seeking preservation, and literally hundreds of others. There are many things WE do not see, and though we are a group representing and conserving the AE86 and the 4AG and spirits and feelings that embody a product and its history, our view for a product launch may be very skewed in light of all other things that take place for product naming.
Just think of it this way, in the Western world, some of us name our grand-kid, and sons, by the names of their ancestors, like Grandfather Bob, and the grandchild Bob Junior. If you pare the 86 name or Hachiroku reference down to its core reasons, its just that. Many people have different reasons to love it or hate it, but the basic idea for the person who named him, is to give him a legacy to look back, to aspire to the same lifetime of good things about the man who lived before him. In the same sense, to hope, that the FT86 now named "86" to hope that the new generation, however different his lifetime may be in a different era and a different world, to carry the same spirit, and to always remind others and himself that there was something before it, that influenced the way of its existence.
Toyota GT86, 86, FRS, FT-86, or Subaru BRZ. It's here, its born, and like a baby with many hopes for the future, can't we just settle on unconditional love for it and raise it, shape it, and influence its growth the way we all feel fit.
It's a birthday on Wednesday, November 30th.
Just be happy for a while, and celebrate it.
If folks at Toyota and Subaru are collectively the fathers of BRZ/FRS/86 sibling, we are the buddy uncle, who will take them to baseball games, fishing trips, pick him up when he's down, push him when he starts to ride a bike, and be the mentor, where dads fall short. We all have such uncles or godfathers no?
we need to stop being the drunken uncle cussing and picking at every fault a kid may have in his youth, and try to guide him...so he can be a hero one day, a home run hitter, a sweeper at 4th bat.
I'm sure you all have voices for this very reason, but he's just a kid. A very anticipated one in the steps of a giant hero, he is here to replace. A lot of expectations... Its our role to help him become great, just like his great uncles, the Levin, Trueno, and Corolla GT-S in the AE86 years, and great Legacy in his Impressa-ive lives before him, 2000GT, Supra, Celica, S800, and many military accredited cousins like the WRC Celica, Impreza, TF102, TS020, 88C~92C, and Toyota 7, and movie stars like 2000GT convertible.
Happy Birthday, and welcome to the world [Toyota] 86, BRZ, and FRS.
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