Collective nouns for cars
Collective nouns for cars
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_rubinho_

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1,237 posts

214 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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It was once common to be use any number of poetic descriptions for groups of animals and other objects. Some are commonly used today, "swarm of bees" or "herd of cows" for example. Some of the more humourous ones have been lost to history such as "pandemonium of parrots", "parliament of owls" or "tower of giraffes". I was wondering if PH could come up with some interesting words to describe collections of cars. I'll start with a couple I thought of:

An intake of Imprezas.
A mixture of MX5s.

Can you come up with better?

Daston

6,154 posts

234 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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A brace of Tivs

Simbu

1,915 posts

205 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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Surely the word you are looking for in any given collective of cars is 'convoy'?

_rubinho_

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1,237 posts

214 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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Simbu said:
Surely the word you are looking for in any given collective of cars is 'convoy'?
Only if they're moving. It's possible to have different collective nouns for objects in differing situations. It's a gaggle of geese on the ground but a skien of geese if they're in flight.

Rich_W

12,548 posts

243 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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A Spam javelin of Prius'?
A harem of Mini's?
A merchant banker of 911's?
A tt of Peroduas?

_rubinho_

Original Poster:

1,237 posts

214 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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Rich_W said:
A Spam javelin of Prius'?
A harem of Mini's?
A merchant banker of 911's?
A tt of Peroduas?
That's much more PH! Insulting ones for cars we don't like. This could get even more fun:

A bd of BMWs?
A sucker of Ssangyongs?

LukeBird

17,170 posts

240 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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A shame of Prius'?

Huff

3,447 posts

222 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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A ste of Saxos

Patrick Bateman

13,212 posts

205 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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Lexi will do.

Fer

7,779 posts

311 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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A Foxton of minis.

A clod of Saxos

A breakdown of TVRs

A murder of lorries?

Plotloss

67,280 posts

301 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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An expense of Ferraris