Disillusioned Father Changes Daughter’s Name

LAKELAND - FL. Disillusioned by the accidents and necessary recalls of Toyota automobiles, Lakeland resident Pablo Eucharist filed a petition in the Circuit Court to legally change the name of his three-year-old daughter, Prius, to Molly. Eucharist and his wife, Georgiana, had taken advantage of an ongoing, but little-publicized program by Toyota North America which provided $3,000 to $5,000 in cashback to new car purchasers who gave newborn children the same name as the model car they purchased. “Financially, it made sense at the time, and the name Prius sounds quite nice,” Eucharist said, “but now there is a certain stigma that I don’t want my daughter to have when she grows up. I can just imagine all of the jokes by guys that ‘Prius just doesn’t stop’, and I won’t subject her to that.” Eucharist said that his other children, eleven-year-old daughter, Sequoia, and fourteen-year-old son, RAV4, like their names and told him that they don’t want them changed. Asked about the financial ramifications of changing her name to Molly, Eucharist said that his dealer is making an inquiry to Toyota to determine whether he must repay the $3,000 cashback he originally received.