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LJ and SJ could come from LightJeep or SmallJeep and Jimny has been said is from a combination of Jeep and Mini. In Japan it is pronounced "jimini" -ish

Is that where the name Jimny comes from?  Jeep-mini -> Jimini -> Jimny?

A friend round the corner calls my car a Jeep and I have heard others refer to it as a Jimini.

Robin

DrRobin wrote:

LJ and SJ could come from LightJeep or SmallJeep and Jimny has been said is from a combination of Jeep and Mini. In Japan it is pronounced "jimini" -ish
 

Is that where the name Jimny comes from?  Jeep-mini -> Jimini -> Jimny?

A friend round the corner calls my car a Jeep and I have heard others refer to it as a Jimini.

Robin

Google said so in a questionable corner of the internjet. But god knows what happened in a sake-drenched late night Suzuki marketing department meeting in the seventees.   
Car model names is a funny thing though. The Pajero/Shogun wich is a spanish masturbator and the Honda Fitta/Jazz cannot have that name here in Norway as it is Norwegian for the womens unspeakables

My Uncle calls my SJ a Jeep too. Haven't cancelled him off yet and still visit him but don't know long I can keep it up

The name "Jeep" probably stems from the American army GP which stands for general purpose but you can add J.E.E.P or "Just Enough Essential Parts or how about " Eugene the Jeep ", a cartoon character.

Roger

DrRobin wrote:

LJ and SJ could come from LightJeep or SmallJeep and Jimny has been said is from a combination of Jeep and Mini. In Japan it is pronounced "jimini" -ish
 

Is that where the name Jimny comes from?  Jeep-mini -> Jimini -> Jimny?

A friend round the corner calls my car a Jeep and I have heard others refer to it as a Jimini.

Robin

I Googled this earlier and it seems that a spokes person from Suzuki has claimed this, 50 years after the first Jimny. I'm not convinced though, as Jeep-Mini sounds nothing like Jimny or Jiminy and the spelling and choice of letters certainly doesn't tally up. So I'm more inclined to chalk it up as marketing BS that just happens to fit badly many decades after the fact.

Google also suggest this:
 

Which when you consider the Starion (Stallion) and other Japanese cars like the Cedric it doesn't seem so far fetched.

As for Jiminy.... well I'd guess this is more people not sure how to say the name and/or misspelling it... and ending up at:

Roger Fairclough wrote:

The name "Jeep" probably stems from the American army GP which stands for general purpose but you can add J.E.E.P or "Just Enough Essential Parts or how about " Eugene the Jeep ", a cartoon character.
 

I understood this to be correct. Much the same way the modern "Humvee" is a derivative of HMMWV  - High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle. 

What of course is interesting is that the product existed and in large numbers before it was named as such its not unconscionable the the name ends up associated with other products that share the same utility and applications. Like the inverse of hoover. Mine is still my jimny or my van or my truck or my car or temeraire depending on my mood.