Crap car names....
Discussion
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
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
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.
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.
Not quite car names, but this makes for happy reading.
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dr.sickman said:
I could do with one of these sometimes: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
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
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.
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.
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...............
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