>Who knew that a manufacturer of automatic looms - Toyoda - would eventually give rise to a major automobile manufacturer - Toyota?

Is the story of the name change true? I heard that Toyoda requires some 19-20 strokes to write, while Toyota is less than half of that. Considering the number of times a company name must be written, rendered in neon or what have you, the saving* would be significant.

* There, I wrote "saving" in singular. Something you don't see every week. "A savings" is the norm, for which I never heard a good explanation.