Silly Car Names

[Josemartinez]

The DS No.4 was mentioned in the ugliest cars on sale thread which made me think what a stupid name for a car, DS4 is fine, why No.4?

Not the worst car name though, what are the worst?

I could only think of Urus, and any of the marine animal based BYD's

[Super Sonic]

Cedric. The Japanese have form for silly car names.

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Bongo Friendee?

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Pajero (Spanish for self pleasuring it turns out )

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Pinto? (Spanish slang for small tadger )

[Every day a journey]

The Mitsubishi 'Carisma'. A car that had none.

Or the Nissan Sunny. The Drizzle would have been better

How FIAT, and Maserati to an extent, got away with calling cars One, Point, Road and Four Door is another matter thanks to language

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Every day a journey said:

How FIAT, got away with calling cars Road

The Strada was called a Ritmo in a lot of places. My pal said not so in the UK as it sounds like a lawnmower

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My colleague had an Audi 100CC. Several people asked him how such a big car could only have a 100CC engine.

[Panamax]

Kia Shuma (c.2000). I'm confident Michael Schumacher wouldn't have been seen dead in a dreary, cheap saloon.

Mitsubishi/Colt Starion (1980s). Reminds me of a Japanese amplifier I used to own with the word "stereo" misspelt as "steleo".

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Volkswagen E-Up, especially if you live in the North.

[Super Sonic]

Every day a journey said:

How FIAT, got away with calling cars Road

Chevrolet too.

[Huzzah]

Super Sonic said:

Every day a journey said:

How FIAT, got away with calling cars Road

Chevrolet too.

BMW M1, M2, M6 etc
AUDI, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 etc

[_Rodders_]

Diahatsu Applause.

My maths teacher has one. I always thought the applause badge should have been illuminated for added effect.

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_Rodders_ said:

Diahatsu Applause.

My maths teacher has one. I always thought the applause badge should have been illuminated for added effect.

Was it clapped out?

[Dapster]

No seriously, this is its name




https://carfromjapan.com/specifications/mitsubishi...

[Ian_SW]

What about:

Skoda Superb - It's a pretty good car, but to describe any family estate / repmobile as "Superb" is probably overdoing it a little.

No longer available, but we also had the Skoda Rapid, which as it only had about 100bhp certainly wasn't. They then improved it with the "Rapid Spaceback" which should actually have been the "Rapid Less-space-in-the-back" as the boot was smaller than on the normal Rapid.

Also no longer available, the Toyota Picnic struck me as quite a silly name too.

Beating all of these though, and available to buy right now, you could hand over £27k and be the proud owner of a brand new GWM Haval Jolion Pro......

[Truckosaurus]

For fans of Chinese motoring and weight loss drugs, there is the Geely Monjaro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely_Xingyue_L

[entropy]

Toyota MR2 - in French MR2 sounds closely to merde or st. Appropriately enough for the Mk2 Rev.1 some would say.

Ford KA - countless arguments at school and work over pronunciation:
"Kuh"
"Kah"
"Kar"
"K. A."

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Bongo Friendee?

^ This.

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