Origins of The Name
The Florian was not named after Saint Florian, but rather after the fictional Lipizzan white horse belonging to the Emperor of Austria, which is the focal character of Felix Salten's (the author of Bambi) 1934 novel, "Florian - the Emperor's Stallion". In 1940, a movie based on the book was released, entitled simply Florian. Thus, the later Florian SII features stallion badging.
- Sales
| Sales (Japanese domestic market) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | ? | 1973 | 5,055 | 1979 | 3,080 |
| 1968 | ? | 1974 | 2,780 | 1980 | ? |
| 1969 | ? | 1975 | 1,442 | 1981 | 490 |
| 1970 | 9,486 | 1976 | 763 | 1982 | ? |
| 1971 | 6,977 | 1977 | 1,571 | 1983 | ? |
| 1972 | 6,931 | 1978 | 6,195 | ||
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