OT Pondering.

Whilst I sat in traffic today on the M6 (another fucking accident, is it
lemming season?) making progress at a rate slower than soil erosion, I got
to pondering about the names manufacturers or rather their
advert/sales/design teams give to cars.
Sometimes they are clever, no doubt intended to inspire the prospective
buyer or give the owner a proud glow when he say`s "I drive a ........."
insert own name.
Most are just stupid or so obscure that I don`t get it.
The Germans with their teutonic flair tend to stick to letters and numbers
i,e Merc S300 or BMW 528 apart from the VW people of course who come up with
such inspired drivel as Polo and Golf (obviously they ran out of ball games
to name their cars after otherwise people could be driving around in a
Football GTI or a Tennis Diesel).

Anyway I came up with my own system for naming cars based on the
manufacturers home cuisine.
For the UK of course this would be curry;-) so we would have the Range Rover
Rogan Josh, the MG Madras, the Vauxhall Vinderloo, Aston Martin Aloo, Jaguar
Jalfrezi and an exception but my favourite is the Peugot Poppadum.
The Italians could have the Masserati Minestrone, the Lamborgini Linguine,
the Ferrari Fetechini etc.

By the time I was thinking about the Jap manufacturers and losing the will
to live the traffic had started moving so off I trunddled.
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Bear says...

BMW Pushy, Mercedes Arrogant and the Ferrari Blowjob, not forgetting of
course the Jeep homosexual.

 

SAAB 69

 

Honda Reliable, Mini Pretentious, Audi Wannabe.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I clocked one yesterday the 'RSI'. Didn't catch the make; some boggish
3-box mid saloon, but wtf? I assume the (presumably) Oriental maker
didn't quite twig they were naming the model after a disease.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
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I still like the Mitsubishi "Starion". Apparently it was far to late
to make changes by the time they realized that's not how the Engrish
spell "Stallion".

 

http://www.japcar.ru/autowallpapers/nissan_cedric_800x600_1.jpg

 

Oh Ar! I've seen one of they Cedrics at work (Nissan Technical
Centre-Europe). Apart from the name it looked quite a decent executive
grade car. Someone did say something about the name... racks brain...

I think they said there's someone high-up who has a thing for saint's
names. Which could be entirely untrue.

 

Chris Cowley wrote

So it would seem.

Indeed.

 

November is a great month for road accidents.. I once 360'd a car in
November a few years ago, almost writing it off.. Because it was
November I had ice to blame, that was sweet..

I say August is the worst months for an accident, if you have a crash
then it's always too warm to stand around, plus a broken car means you
can't use aircon so you have to wait, all hot and sweaty .. People are
likely to drive by with the windows down and laugh because you crashed.


;-)

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Christopher Des Clayes

Might be a load of old bollocks, but years ago I heard/read that
Japyknees car makers were prohibited from naming models aggressively.

Things like 'Mitsubishi Naval Bombardment', 'Datsun Grenade', 'Honda
Rape of Nanking', etc, were right out.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

All kicked off with the "C" cars (300C, et al). They chose Cedric,
because it sounds posh and gentlemanly, in an upper crust 30's English
kinda way. It was decided to abbreviate it to "C" over here, because
the bods advising them reckoned the Brits wouldn't be tempted by such
a daft name.
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
96 Tiger.
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM

 

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/starion.asp

 

<fx: narrows eyes, hands on hips, tries to look tough>
that's not helping, is it?

 

As you well know, mups is referring to the little one - the
"Wrangler".

Your one [0] would take the nomenclature: "Jeep Unfortunate".


[0] Here's where you can tell us that it's actually Angie's...

 

darsy wrote

Dunno about helping but it has given me the best laugh I have had today.

 

no straight guy would consider driving, never mind owning, a Wrangler.

I'm long past worrying about that sort of thing.

 

Early/mid 70's - when Jap motors selling in significant numbers enough
for them to introduce the bigger models to the mass market, here.
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
96 Tiger.
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM

 

yeah, but you merkins are all slightly bent as a default.

We've got a Cherokee 4.0L, pretty much a big armoured shopping
trolley.

 

Heh, I saw a japanese poster a couple of days ago advertising "Crint
Eastward" in some spaghetti western...
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