Crap car names....

[RDE]

smiller said:

Ford Sierra Chasseur

That's fantastic.

[niva441]

hot metal said:

There was the Escort Harrier which was ok but there was also the Goldcrest and the Linnet pathetic.

And the special London only edition - the Capital, I think there might have been a tie up to the radio station.

[Big Rumbly]

Fairly comprehensive list here

These are all genuine, some you may have heard of, some not.



Daihatsu Rugged Field Sport Resin Top
Honda Life Dunk
Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard
Mitsubishi Mini Active Urban Sandal
Mitsubishi Mum 500 Shall We Join Us
Nissan Big Thumb Harmonised Truc
Suzuki Alto Afternoon Tea
Suzuki Every Joy Pop Turbo
Toyota Estima Lucida G Luxury Joyful Canopy
Yamaha Pantryboy Supreme
Isuzu Big Horn
Mazda Bongo Brawny
Mazda Proceed Marvie Will Breeze
Mitsubishi Canter Guts
Nissan Cedric
Nissan Leopard J Ferie
Subaru Domingo Aladdin

[MonkeyVR6]

Might have already been mentioned, but here are a few that I see now and again over in Germany...

Volkswagen Polo GT 'Genesis' edition

Volkswagen Golf/Passat 'Bon Jovi' edition

In France the Mazda MR2 was re-named to something like the 'Star' as "M-R-duex", sounds a bit too much like, "Mazda st" when translated.

[collateral]

307 Envy...of people driving anything else, quite possibly.

[dr.sickman]

Not quite car names, but this makes for happy reading.
A website dedicated to deliberate or amusing mistranslations.

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[anonymous-user]

dr.sickman said:

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I could do with one of these sometimes:

[Futuramic]

It seems that when manufacturers pour money and effort into inventing names they inevitably come up with something stupid.

In America cars used to have utilitarian names that took three seconds to think of,

thus the Chevrolet 2 (which was a new series)

the Chevrolet Pickup

and the Mercury Tudor (a corruption of two door).

Nowadays American names get ever sillier as focus groups and things work through them, so now we have the Mercury Sable and the Cadillac Escalade.

For truly shonky names one has to look to the special editions of the cars we love.

The Nissan X-Trail "The North Face" edition.

The Ford Capri Cabaret.

The BMW 635 "Highline Leather", or whatever it was called.

But the Japanese have it in the bag.

Imagine telling your friends you drive a Carina Myroad

or a Townace Noah Super Extra (good in the wet I hear)

or a Toyota Spacio 4wd

or for those with many friends a Nissan Civillian Deluxe 26 seater

[Morningside]

This one takes the proverbial. I give you the Kia Sedona Joey

[RoadCaptain]

Renault 21 Manager

[anonymous-user]

Morningside said:

This one takes the proverbial. I give you the Kia Sedona Joey

[Poledriver]

The ultimate one was in the 70's. Some wags started changing lettering around and the FORD CRAPI was born! How apt!

[littlegearl]

boRED S2upid said:

Fiesta Black.

you think thats bad, how about the Aygo Black. just say it out loud...

best one ever, was a small Suzuki Wagon R type thing sold in Japan called the mitsubiSHI T-BOX

what *were* they thinking...

[Swoxy]

Ford Aspire ...

[Negative Creep]

Citroen Saxo Desire
BMW 325 TDS
Pontiac Aztek (at least spell it correctly)
Hyundai Pony
Hyundai Trajet (I just read it as Tragic)
Nissan Silvia
Nissan Sunny
Kia Pride
Virtually anything with 'Sport' trim level

[Twincam16]

Actually, come to think of it, doesn anyone other than the Americans and the Italians (and the Italians only get away with it because you can say just about anything in Italian and it'll sound exotic to the rest of the world) make cars with decent names these days?

Most 'cool' cars just have names or letter codes. Ford UK have lost it in the naming department - Ka sounds like a child's bad joke, Mondeo was made up in the marketing department, Focus is a rubbish name for a car no matter how good the car is, and Fiesta still has overtones of beer-bellied Brits piling off a Braddith Airways Boeing 747 in 1982 wearing 18-30 T-shirts and drunkenly chanting 'y viva Espana'.

All the Vauxhalls sound like obscure cable TV repeats channels. "Ooh look, they're re-running Only Fools And Horses on Astra again, or shall we flick over to Vectra and watch On The Buses?

I have a horrible feeling we can't give cars cool names like 'Interceptor' and 'Spitfire' and 'Excel' in this country any more because cars have sadly joined religion and politics and things not discussed in polite company, and ownership of a car to non-petrolheads is seen as slightly embarassing, so telling someone 'I own an Interceptor' is tantamount to saying 'I have a microscopic penis'. Irony has become so all-encompassing, it's institutionalised.

So instead, we're condemned to driving around in cars with either offensively inoffensive bilge from the marketing department, or some shuddersomly embarassing Engrish from Japan.

[blot]

The Mazda Blot may be a crap car, but what a great name

[A8VIP]

tiga84 said:

Nissan/Datsun Cedric

You've forgotten the Datsun Gloria and the Datsun Violet too.

Very OAP friendly, the Datsun

[jamoor]

Have we done Suzuki Swift?

[Taffer]

Twincam16 said:

Actually, come to think of it, doesn anyone other than the Americans and the Italians (and the Italians only get away with it because you can say just about anything in Italian and it'll sound exotic to the rest of the world) make cars with decent names these days? ............

The Italians are losing it too now, especially with the Zimbabwean approach to democracy Alfa Romeo have when naming their cars.

Alfa launches competition for Joe Public to name new small car. Winning entry is 'Furio'. Company decides to ignore this completely and call new car 'MiTo'.

Meh...............