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Stupid car names
What's the dumbest car name you have heard of??
Here are some i found:
[B]Daihatsu[/B]
Rugged field sports resin top
d-bag
Town Cube
[B]Honda[/B]
Acty crawler
joy-machine
[B]Isuzu[/B]
Big horn
Mysterious utility wizard
giga 20 light dump
[B]mitsubishi[/B]
Canter guts
auero queen
delcia space gear crusing active
mum 500 shall we join us? (yes, the question mark is part of the name)
Mini active urban sandal
Libero RVR super wild gear
[B]Mazda[/B]
Carol
Autozam carol
Luce
Bongo brawny
LaPuta
[B]Nissan[/B]
Cedric
Gloria gran-turismo 300 ultima-z
leopard j ferie
Prarie joy
Big thumb harmonised truck
[B]Subaru[/B]
Gravel Express
[B]Suzuki[/B]
alto afternoon tea
Van van (actually a motorbike)
every joy pop turbo
[B]Toyota[/B]
Synus
Estima Lucida G Luxury joyful canopy
I think that they should fire all of the people in charge of making these names up, and put the members of UCP in charge - surely we can make up more stupid ones than that :)
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[QUOTE=escort mexico]mum 500 shall we join us? (yes, the question mark is part of the name)[/QUOTE]
HahA what a joke are these real, i know a few are but these are wrong :)
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Funny, escort mexico, how you only listed cars with funny names of Asian origin.
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like the name [B]Fiat ragata[/B] the word Ragata in swedish is bitch or cow :-) only 30 where sold in sweden :p
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[QUOTE=d-quik]Funny, escort mexico, how you only listed cars with funny names of Asian origin.[/QUOTE]
yeah you missed out ...
[B]Central American Prostitute[/B]
So translating names can generate nonsense for even your most beloved car :)
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what have these supposed unfortunate car names been translated from???
my favourite is the "Nissan Cedric" ahhahahahahaha
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[QUOTE=Jonny Flash]what have these supposed unfortunate car names been translated from???[/QUOTE]
There original language, what else ???
Did you get the "escort Mexico" joke. There's probably some guy in Tokyo laughing that that name as a "prostitite" clearly wrong, it's the translation that's at fault.
[QUOTE]my favourite is the "Nissan Cedric" ahhahahahahaha[/QUOTE]
On estupid name doesn't make them all stupid.
Nissan have had a history of using names for their large limos that imply comfort, status. So you get Cedric - an English name.
You usually find if you take 2 minutes that the reason for the name is actually quite sound !!
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Chevy "El Camino" which in Spanish means "The way to..."
Lambo "Murcielago" also Spanish means "Bat".
Taz.
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You also have to remember that the society in Japan loves its product base to be quirky. It's almost a Japanese trademark.
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[QUOTE=cp01ae]You also have to remember that the society in Japan loves its product base to be quirky. It's almost a Japanese trademark.[/QUOTE]
tradition more than trademark.
Names for good fortune has existed for millenia in the culture.
Example :- how many have LG electronic products ?
Did you own any sold under their previous western name of Goldstar ?
LG stands for Lucky Goldstar the full company name.
This is a company name which would bring great fortune to the business.
Now we wouldn't call a company "make me a millionaire by the time I'm 25" becuse our culture isnt' like that.
It's different, not stupid :)
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[QUOTE=escort mexico]Gloria gran-turismo 300 ultima-z[/QUOTE]
A variation of the 300ZX, right? I know the 350Z is called the Fairlady Z over their right now :o. Japan has some awesome names for their cars :D.
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Due to my youth, I do not understand whats so funny about Nissan Cedric? Will someone older please explain it to me?
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What about this?
[B]WHAT CAR NAMES REALLY MEAN[/B]
ACURA -Another Crummy, Useless, Rotten Automobile
AMC -A Major Cost
AMC -Another Major Catastrophe
AUDI -Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
AUDI -Another Ugly Duetsche Invention
AUDI -Always Undermining Deutsche Intelligence
BMW -Beastly Monstrous Wonder
BMW -Beautiful Masterpieces on Wheels
BMW -Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
BMW -Barely Moving Wreck
BMW -Big Money Waste
BMW -Born Moderately Wealthy
BMW -Breaks Most Wrenches
BMW -Brings Me Women
BUICK -Big Ugly Imitation Chrome King
BUICK -Big Ugly Indestructible Car Killer
CADILLAC -Crazy And Demented Idiots Like Large American Cars
CADILLAC -Cars Are Driven In Long Lines And Crashed
CHEVROLET -Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle, Or Loud Engine Ticks
CHEVROLET -Cracked Heads, Every Valve Rattles, Oil Leaks Every Time
CHEVROLET -Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
CHEVY -Cheapest Heap Ever Visioned Yet
DODGE -Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater
DODGE -Dead On Day Guarantee Expires
DODGE -Dead On Delivery, Go Easy
DODGE -Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter
DODGE -Drips Oil Drops Grease Everywhere
EDSEL -Every Day Something Else Leaks
FIAT -Failed In A Tunnel
FIAT -Failure In Automotive Technology
FIAT -Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation
FIAT -Fix It Again Tony
FORD -Falling Off: Rusty Door
FORD -Fast Only Rolling Downhill
FORD -Fantastically Orgasmic Realistic Dream
FORD -Fatally Obese Redneck Driver
FORD -Finally Obsolete Racing Device
FORD -Fireball On Rear Denting
FORD -Fixed Or Repaired Daily
FORD -Flip Over Read Directions
FORD -Flipping Over Results in Death
FORD -Flipped Over Roadside Disaster
FORD -Fords Only Run Downhill
FORD -Forward Only; Reverse Defective
FORD -Found On Redneck's Driveway
GEO -Good Engineering Overlooked
G. M. -General Maintenance
G. M. -Goshdarn Mess
G. M. -Generally Misunderstood
GMC -Generic Made Chevy
GMC -Get More Chicks
GMC -Gets Mechanics Crazy
GMC -Gotta Mechanic coming
GMC -Great Motor Car
HONDA -Had One, Never Do-that Again
HONDA -Hang On, Not Done Accelerating
HYUNDAI -How Your Usual Nerd Drives An Import
IROC -I Race Other Cars
IROC -I Reek Of Cologne
IROC -Ignorant Retard Out Cruising
JEEP -Just Eats Every Part
JEEP -Junk Engineering Executed Poorly
KIA -Killed In Action
KIA -Kills In Accidents
LTD -Long Term Debt
LTD -Lousy Transportation, Dammit!
LTD -Long, Thin Dumpster
MAZDA -Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along
MAZDA -My! Another Zany Detroit Assassin!
MERCEDES -Most Eccentric Rich Capitalists Enjoy Driving Expensive Sedans
M.G. -Money Guzzler
MITSUBISHI -Mostly In The Shop Undergoing Big Investments, Sometimes Halfway Incomplete
MUSTANG -Men Usually Stand Together And Never Go
NISSAN -Nine Idiots Standing, Saying Absolutely Nothing
NISSAN -Needless Innovations, Silly, Stupid, Automotive Nonsense
OLDS MOBILE -Oh, Look, Dammit! Some Massive Oil Burning Idiot's Leaking Everything.
OLDSMOBILE -Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Every day.
OLDSMOBILE -Old Ladies Drive Slow - Mostly Over Bridges Into Lake Erie
PINTO -Put In Nickel To Operate
PINTO -Paid Inspector Nicely To Overlook
PLYMOUTH -Police Laugh, Young Men Ogle, All Underestimating This Heap
PONTIAC -People On Narcotics Think It's A Chevy
PONTIAC -Poor Old Nitwit Thinks It's A Cadillac
PONTIAC -Puts Out Noxious Toxins In All Cities
PORSCHE -Piece Of Rubbish, Saps Continually High Expense
PORSCHE -Proof Of Rich Spoiled Children Having Everything
PROBE -Plainly Runs Only By Exception
SAAB -Send Another Automobile Back
SAAB -Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown.
SAAB -Swedish Automobiles Are Beastly
SAAB -Sad Attempt At Beauty
SAAB -Sorry Auto, Always Broken
SAAB -Swedish Automobile-Always Broken
SATURN -Sounds Absolutely Terrible, Unbelievable Rattling Noises
SUBARU -Screwed Up Beyond All Repair Usually
SUBARU -Sorry Unreal Bonsai Attempt at a Russian U-boat
TOYOTA -Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto
TOYOTA -Torturous On Your Old Tired Ass
TRIUMPH -This Really Is Unreliable Man, Please Help!
TRIUMPH -Tried Repairing It Until My Parts Hurt!
TRIUMPH -The Risk In Useless Machinery Pays Heavily
VOLVO -Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object
VW -Virtually Worthless
VOLKSWAGEN -Very Obsolete, Losers Knowingly Suffer With All German Engineered Nonsense
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Ford Focus.. Focus on what ???
Holden Vacationer
Ford MKII
Ford Classic is was a classic crap hole in AU my bro's girlfriend has one :(
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