Board Thread:Gran Turismo 4/@comment-4939977-20151024034348/@comment-27555859-20160129054835

I was just now reading about that. Exxon essentially "replaced" Esso in the U.S. on January 1, 1973 as a result of those protests, and not until now had I realized that Esso actually is American, but the name was shoved off American soil and sent to other parts of the world.

Oh, and I could imagine that if they had tried to translate the car's decals to "EXXON Superflo", they probably would have had a hard time with the big letters on the sides of the car, but replacing an oval "Esso" logo with a rectangular "EXXON" logo sounds like a piece of cake to me.