I wrote: “Niijima is asteroid #5507 and also known as 1987 UJ. It was discovered by Suzuki Kenzō (鈴木 憲蔵) and Urata Takeshi (浦田 武) at the Observatory of Toyota-shi (豊田市), Aichi-ken (愛知県), Japan. Shi (市) is a city and ken (県) is a prefecture in Japanese as already explained in Ojima, to which this article is a sequel somehow.” in my article on Niijima. Related to these articles on Niijima and Ojima did I already write on other person name asteroids and place name asteroids. So I wanted to continue with the asteroid Toyota, which is named after Toyota-shi (豊田市). I thought it would be an exception that the asteroid’s name is the name of a car company too. But I found that asteroid #3533 is named Toyota, asteroid #3904 is named Honda, asteroid #2393 is named Suzuki, asteroid #4122 is named Ferrari, and asteroid #1136 is named Mercedes. If I would count cars to my fields of interest, then I could perhaps have known more asteroids, that could hint to cars. But cars don’t count to my fields of interest, so I’m neither able to discover more nor to say that there aren’t more. I can only say that I know these five yet.

Mercedes or asteroid #1136 is also known as 1929 UA and actually named after the sister-in-law of the discoverer. When Catalan astronomer Josep Comas i Solà at the Fabra Observatory in Barcelona, Spain, discovered the asteroid, Mercedes was a popular female name. This is also the reason of the car’s name because the Mercedes car got named after the daughter of the inventor. 1929 UA is an asteroid of the background population of the Asteroid Main Belt. Mercedes is a name of Spanish origin and is translatable as mercies. So this astrological force can not only hint to cars.

Suzuki or asteroid #2393 is also known as 1955 WB. Suzuki was discovered by the French astronomer Marguerite Laugier at Nice Observatory (French: Observatoire de Nice), which has nothing to do with the adjective nice. Suzuki is named after Suzuki Keishin, a Japanese astronomer and professor of astronomy at the Tōkyō Gakugei Daigaku (東京学芸大学) or Tokyo Gakugei University, in short also called Gakudai (学大) and TGU. I can’t find anything else on Suzuki Keishin. The name is most often abbreviated as Suzuki K. and the Wikipedia links this always to Suzuki Kenzō (鈴木 憲蔵), but in other languages into the void. Urata Takeshi (浦田 武) shall have proposed the name Suzuki and he worked often together with Suzuki Kenzō (鈴木 憲蔵), so the name Keishin could be a mistake. It would be translatable as pious or as credulous, of course written with different characters, but not a likely name. On the other hand is already Kenzo (asteroid #5526 or 1991 UP1) named after Suzuki Kenzō (鈴木 憲蔵), so Suzuki should indeed be named after somebody else. The astrological forces Suzuki and Kenzo are very likely to hint to confusing somebody with somebody else.

Honda or asteroid #3904 is also known as 1988 DQ. Honda is a common Main Belt asteroid and was discovered by the British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught. Honda is named after the Japanese astronomer Honda Minoru (本田 実), who lived from 1913 until 1990. The asteroid #8485 or Satoru is named after his wife and the asteroid #11442 or Seijin-Sanso is named after the observation station, where he worked. A honda (本田) in Japanese is a field registered in a field book as opposed to recently reclaimed land.

Ferrari or asteroid #4122 is also known as 1986 OA. Ferrari was discovered at the San Vittore Observatory, Bologna, Italy, but the discoverer seems to be unknown. Except for his rather high inclination seems Ferrari to be a common Main Belt Asteroid. Ferrari is indeed named after Enzo Ferrari, the famous Italian builder of racing cars and sports cars. He lived from 1898 until 1988. Ferrari is also a translatable name and basically the Italian equivalent of the English surname Smith.

Toyota or asteroid #3533 is also known as 1986 UE. Toyota was discovered by Urata Takeshi (浦田 武) and Suzuki Kenzō (鈴木 憲蔵). Toyota belongs to the asteroid-family Flora/ Ariadne. As already mentioned, Toyota is named after the city Toyota (豊田) in the prefecture Aichi (愛知). Of course there is also an asteroid (#5908 or 1989 UF) named Aichi after this prefecture. Toyota-shi (豊田市) was formerly named Koromo-shi (挙母市). But then the Toyota Motor Corporation built so many manufacturing plants and workman’s houses in the city that it was soon only known as Toyota City, so it got renamed officially too. Toyota (豊田) as a Japanese word would be translatable as lush fields.

Of course all five of these asteroids have other possible meanings (than the name of cars) too. This isn’t surprising because the naming of asteroids mustn’t be abused for advertising for products or companies. But the connection with cars is in some cases so strong and obvious that it is suspicious! Perhaps you can find a connection with the car, which you drive, in your natal chart or a relocation chart?