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No, because it's based on this toy:

Because back when those toys came out, Hasbro was run by different people, who preferred to use their own westernized names instead of those that were used in Japan.

And of course, there's the granddaddy of them all: alt.toys.transformers, which has archived threads going as far back as the early 90s, and continues to have new posts made to this day.

The Club had to adhere to the same Trademark (not copyright) laws as Hasbro. Because that was eight years ago. Things are different now. The trademark issue with the name "Convoy" is that it is currently owned by some other company in Japan, so Hasbro has to use a name that would allow...

Oh boy! We got ourselves another Sodor's Finest, today! And it's one that's been LOOOOOOONG-requested by Tug's viewers!

No pics, no fun.

Sadly, those Street Speed Team redecos never saw release.

The person to ask about the whole "Leo Prime/Lio Convoy" name trademark thing is whoever wrote this on our Twtter feed during one of the Hasbro roundtable discussions: This is also supported by Seibertron's report of the same event: Also by Monzo on the TFWiki Discord:

Remember Prime Saber's Transformers Page? It was one of the fansites to find out info about the Japanese side of Transformers (even though a lot of it was also based on early-fandom understandings that would later be corrected by Takara themselves).

Crazy! Here's an oldy: RoboBase!

There is one site I remember first stumbling upon after using Ask Jeeves (remember that one?) to search for info about the Tripredacus Council. The search led me to an old fansite called "The Autobot Hall of Leaders". This was a fansite that was very much a product of the early Internet years...

Speaking of Sonic X, I just found out that Hulu now has both the 4Kids dub and the original Japanese version with subtitles available to watch.

And then Budiansky's profile would have given him an exaggerated speech impediment. :p

It's basically like Freeza's forms. You start with a small and normal-looking form, then a bigger and more intimidating version of that, then a larger and more monstrous form, and then finally a smaller but more refined and streamlined form. Agumon went through the same thing in his line all...

It's way too flat and basic, compared to both the originals and the Takara proto, all of which had molded ridges that were far more pronounced, more defined, and more visually-striking:

Wow, that truck grill is bland.

Even the preschool-aimed Rescue Bots wasn't afraid to use "Scrubber".

Well, a preliminary Hasbro name for him was "Wartoad".

If anything, they could have just kept Slapper's Japanese name "Goosher", like they did for Gas Skunk. Well, "Gaskunk", but they're both pronounced the same in English.