Cars With Miss-Leading Names?
Cars With Miss-Leading Names?
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okie592

Original Poster:

2,711 posts

188 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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What cars names misslead the public

my Vote

The proton SAVVY, what in this POS is in anyway savvy, fun, or nice


Funk

27,225 posts

230 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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It's 'misleading' not 'miss-leading'.

PumpkinSteve

4,231 posts

177 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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MINI hehe

Funk

27,225 posts

230 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Oh, and the Mitsubishi 'Carisma' {sic} wins this one hands down. A car with less joie de vivre would be hard to find.

1981linley

937 posts

168 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Corsa.....sport.

Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

286 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Funk said:
Oh, and the Mitsubishi 'Carisma' {sic} wins this one hands down. A car with less joie de vivre would be hard to find.
I know a guy who bought one of those just because of the name. He thought it would be the perfect car for him, which is a way it was.

He was in a band and married to a dancer, which made me think he might be interesting until I met him.

Harry Flashman

21,053 posts

263 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Morgan Aero.

Flat-windscreened throwback with the aerodynamics of a common house brick.

DaveZT260

599 posts

170 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Fiat Panda

How does that piece of st look anything like a cute bear?

djdestiny

6,542 posts

199 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Nissan Sunny

300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

211 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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PumpkinSteve said:
MINI hehe
rolleyes oh yes they just so much bigger than most cars on the roads these days aren't they. So much bigger than a Mondeo or Vectra even....

300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

211 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Almost anything with the word "Sport" in it's name.

Terzo123

4,627 posts

229 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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G-Wiz, you will not feel any G's, it will not wiz

Although the name may emulate the last noises you make as you take your last dying breath after being crushed to death in the thing after a 5mph shunt

horza

491 posts

228 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Suzuki Swift.

Mattyvole

556 posts

174 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Ford Fiesta.
Renault Scenic.

davepoth

29,395 posts

220 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Mattyvole said:
Ford Fiesta.
Should have been the "Ford Reader's Wives"

Daston

6,117 posts

224 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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300bhp/ton said:
rolleyes oh yes they just so much bigger than most cars on the roads these days aren't they. So much bigger than a Mondeo or Vectra even....
Are you seriously suggesting they are actually mini? They were bigger than most city cars when it was released.


GravelBen

16,289 posts

251 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Mazda Bongo Brawny:


300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

211 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Daston said:
Are you seriously suggesting they are actually mini? They were bigger than most city cars when it was released.

I guess technically was the Mini ever a city car though?

And really? Are you sure? Not many cars are 'significantly' smaller and offer the same seating. And the ones that do certainly don't look as good.

LuS1fer

43,077 posts

266 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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300bhp/ton said:
Daston said:
Are you seriously suggesting they are actually mini? They were bigger than most city cars when it was released.

I guess technically was the Mini ever a city car though?

And really? Are you sure? Not many cars are 'significantly' smaller and offer the same seating. And the ones that do certainly don't look as good.
Sorry 300, you're missing the point. Whatever its competition, they're not called MINI.... and yes, the original was a city car and was "mini".

It's like the Mondeo which wasn't sold in the US under that name so it was hardly "monde"-wide.

Swifter

29 posts

167 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Ford Escort GTI
Peugeot 206 HDI GTI
206 GTI
MK3 / MK4 Golf GTI