The War Named For Toyota Trucks

Good marketing or bad advertising?

Grant Piper

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Toyota Technical in Chad (Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces of the Czech Republic)

It is not often that wars are named for consumer products. Usually, the names are simply derived from the combatants, the time period, or the thing that started the war. The Toyota War is named for none of those things. The fighters were not fighting over Toyota they were fighting in Toyotas.

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Grant Piper

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.