Didnt really know where to post this so sorry if its in the wrong forum. But today my brother ask me what the ist stands for on the jdm version of the xa and I was ashamed that I didnt know since I own a xa. So I did a search and nothing so does any one know the meaning if you do please educate me.

 

i think thats all it is...

ist

like bB?
just a model # ?

 

for your first (1st...not really ist) :?

Here's the Concept from the CE himself. Go to world.altavista.com and cut and paste the link to translare Japanese to English.

http://www.toyota.co.jp/fce/ist/

 

Personally... I think its the japanese screwing up American slang (not that i have a problem with it)... I see a lot of things like Stylist and bBist and who knows what else... but if you want take it for its literal defintion than here it is...

-ist
suff.

One that performs a specified action: lobbyist.
One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing: novelist.
A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill: biologist.
An adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought: anarchist.
One that is characterized by a specified trait or quality: romanticist.

Just my two cents :D

 

Here's the suggestions gurunet gives:

IST
IST stands for:


I'm So Tired (Beatles song)
Idle Shutdown Timer
Imperial Software Technology (London)
In-Service Training
Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia
Incremental System Test
Indian Standard Time (GMT+0530)
Information Society Technologies (EU)
Information Switching Technology (e-payment)
Information Systems Technology
Initial Service Test
Initial Support Team
Innovative Science & Technology
Innovative Steam Technologies
Institut Universitaire Romand de Santé au Travail
Institute for Simulation and Training
Institute of Spring Technology (UK)
Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal)
Instructional Support Team
Instructional Systems Technology (educational program)
Integrated Sciences Technology
Integrated Secure Telephone
Integrated Services Trunk
Integrated Supply and Trading (BP)
Integrated System Test
Integrated Systems Training
Intelligent Scanning Technology
Inter-Stellar Trader (gaming)
Inter-Switch Trunk
Inter-System Test (AT&T)
Interactive Service Technologies, Inc.
Interactive Speech Technology
Interim Sustainment Trainer
Internal Spanning Tree (Cisco)
International Shared Tenant (Sprint)
International Socialist Tendency Commies!!
International Superhero Teams
International Switched Transit
International Symposium on Telecommunications
Inverted Serrurier Truss
Irish Summer Time
Israeli Standard Time
Istanbul, Turkey - Ataturk (Airport Code)
Staðlaráð Íslands (Icelandic Standards)


And I think bB stands for blackBox, denoting it's plain styling...

 

Thanx for the education. The only thing I knew was that BB meant black box or thats what im lead to believe.

 

read somewhere the ist is actually taken from the suffixes of artIST, stylIST, idealIST, sentimentalIST.... continue guys.... whatever *ist u can come up with

cant find the link tho' now.. probably i must have read it in a local car mag...

 

psychologIST

 

I don't think Ist stands for anything. According to the Toyota factory tour, bB is for Black Box.

 

I though bB was for "best balance"...

 

IST... It's Simply Terrific! lol

 

u're right ... bB means "black box" according to Toyota.

 

the letters in IST don't stand for anything. Its pronounced like "east". And the letters don't stand for anything.

 

I read "best balance" in an article somewhere, but I'm going by what they told me at the factory plant here in Japan over that; which is that it's "black box". Of course...not all of the bB's I see rolling around here are black...but that's Japan.

And yea...in Japanese, Ist would sound more like "east" (actually...it sounds more like "easuto")...I still can't help but say it like in English...probably more because of an old joke from a few years back. (Though I could swear that our tourguide said it like it would be in English, not Japanese...)