-O- lame names for cars
Robert Kane
do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do you
think is the lamest car name out there?
my pick: Suzuki Esteem (hmm..I think I'll go out and buy myself
some esteem)
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Abraxas365
> As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking where
>do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do you
>think is the lamest car name out there?
Well....there is of course the Pinto
But a more contemporary example would be the aspire lol. It sounds like the
little car that could.
Rabbit is an equally horrid name IMO
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> As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking where
>do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do you
>think is the lamest car name out there?
>
>some esteem)
I hate Kia Sephia and Dodge Neon. Neon is just too...silly for some
reason. I also hate the Y2K = Yes2Kia commercials. They must use D&D
Advertising Agency (from Melrose Place, remember?).
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XMegasusX
>Robert Kane wrote in message...
>> As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking where
>>do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do you
>>think is the lamest car name out there?
>>
>>my pick: Suzuki Esteem (hmm..I think I'll go out and buy myself
>>some esteem)
>
>I hate Kia Sephia and Dodge Neon. Neon is just too...silly for some
>reason.
Well, lots of car names are really just... pointless. I have a Chevy Blazer..
and it's far from Blazing.. (until I accidentally spill oil on the outside of
the hot engine and it starts smoking.. but.. ya know.. :)
I personally like the name Blazer.. and not just because I own one. I think
it's a cool name... some, on the other hand.. are just dumb. Like.. the Eagle
Summit. Sounds like a mountain, not a car.
When I first saw the post, I thought you meant... like.. names people give
their cars. (which many do) And the cheesiest I have heard of was "Max"....
which was a potential name for Jenni's (from JenniCAM.org) car... it was Erik's
lame idea. Erik is for the most part a very smart and funny guy, but that name
just... sucks for a car. IMHO, of course. :)
-Meg, who wants a brand new Blazer but wont be getting one, short of a
miracle..
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Yummykarma
> Like.. the Eagle
>Summit. Sounds like a mountain, not a car.
roflmao! i dunno why, but i found that so funny...
i find the ford probe to be pretty lame. "lame?", you ask... yes. sammy-chan
find the ford probe a lame name because when the car first came on the market,
ford announced the car would be marketed towards females. :/ i want my probes
to be of the deep dicking variety, not from a ford. :)
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Hyundai Sonata. Ok. A varied musical structure, with an original theme
based on a short motet, a development of the motet, and a recapitulation
with a varied kick to the theme... no, this is not a car... Hey -- let's
buy a work of ART!!! he he... hrmm...
OR
hmm... i have to agree about the evil kia commercials and their names in
general... AND the entire Chrysler corporation, which, under the satanous
paws of iococca, killed several towns in wisconsin, including my hometown,
kenosha... bitterness aside. ah well...
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Robert Kane wrote:
> As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking where
> do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do you
> think is the lamest car name out there?
>
> my pick: Suzuki Esteem (hmm..I think I'll go out and buy myself
> some esteem)
>
Appelyne
I have never been one for Native American causes or any thing.....
But the JEEP Cherokee seems a little offensive to me.
Yeagh, I wanna go buy a Cherokee.
Appelyne
~~meaghyn
> <snip>
> So what do you
> think is the lamest car name out there?
Personally, when I was younger, i thought it was dumb how the cars were
named after the zodiac....and I can talk, because I drive a Dodge Aries.
Ford Taurus, Dodge Aries, Dodge Ram (going back to the Aries). I can't
remember anymore.
~~meaghyn
WyrdWoman
>i find the ford probe to be pretty lame. "lame?", you ask... yes.
sammy-chan
>find the ford probe a lame name because when the car first came on the
market,
>ford announced the car would be marketed towards females. :/ i want
my probes
>to be of the deep dicking variety, not from a ford. :)
Really? They were marketed for females? I always saw men driving them
when they first came out. *shrug* Maybe it's the name, as you pointed
out. If I were a guy, I'd rather have the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile.
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PythonKing
> As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking where
>think is the lamest car name out there?
>
i dunno what company makes it, but there is that one huge obnoxious van called
"the tourist" that gave me quite the heebeegeebees.
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fastrada
>
> As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking where
> do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do you
> think is the lamest car name out there?
>
> some esteem)
my vote goes for the daewoo. i could never say "i drive a daewoo" with a
straight face. it sounds like a thai dish or something.
fastrada, who likes thai food. :)
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Dani Ringrose
<roekb...@mailhost.det.ameritech.net> wrote:
> As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking where
>do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do you
>think is the lamest car name out there?
Nope. My favorite is a four-wheel-drive (can't remember make - Holden
or Ford or something like that), called "Urban".
The ads featured this "urban" 4wd trucking around Australia's outback.
I think "urban" is as far from your 4wd territory that you can get.
Although it might appeal to the "part-time" 4wd user that's so
prevalent in Australia.
To me, urban does not conjure up images of getting away for the
weekend. Ridiculous.
Dani.
EveApple7
>Personally, when I was younger, i thought it was dumb how the cars were
>named after the zodiac....and I can talk, because I drive a Dodge Aries.
>Ford Taurus, Dodge Aries, Dodge Ram (going back to the Aries). I can't
>remember anymore.
Actually, according to my name book, every zodiac name has at one time or
another been used for a car except Cancer. Gee, I wonder why... :)
Sophie
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>Actually, according to my name book, every zodiac name has at one time or
>another been used for a car except Cancer. Gee, I wonder why... :)
Hey, I see a new market for car names, here.
Plymouth Cancer
Dodge Pedophile
Chevy Crappile
Ford Sociopath
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>Ford Sociopath
Hey... I *like* this one.
Now I'll finally have something to write on all those e-mail surveys. Dream
Car: Ford Sociopath.
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EveApple7 <evea...@aol.computer> wrote in article
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> ~~meaghyn <tori_...@usa.net> wrote in big purple crayon:
>
> >Personally, when I was younger, i thought it was dumb how the cars were
> >named after the zodiac....and I can talk, because I drive a Dodge Aries.
> >Ford Taurus, Dodge Aries, Dodge Ram (going back to the Aries). I can't
> >remember anymore.
>
> Actually, according to my name book, every zodiac name has at one time or
> another been used for a car except Cancer. Gee, I wonder why... :)
>
> Sophie
>
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Driving through Tacoma, WA seeing so many of the Toyota Tacomas doesn't
really ever do anything positive for me. I've got to vote for the Dodge
Intrepid, The Toyota Rav 4, the Nissan Stanza (A stanza is part of a
poem!!) Toyota Tacoma, and The AMC Pacer. A Pacer is an NBA basketball
player in Indiana, and should not be a car. There was a car in the 70's
named Honey Bee, also. I know there's a car named Hornet, but this car was
called Honey Bee and it was an AMC or a Plymouth or something... it was an
American car. My friend's father had the Honey Bee car and I remember
thinking it was the silliest name for a car. Plymouth Duster is a silly
name, too. Duster? That's what you clean house with. I agree that the
Zodiac names for cars is unsuitable and strange as well, although if I
owned a car named Sagittarius, I'd call it my "Sahggggge". That sounds
good.... "Gonna' drive to Cali in the Sahggggge..." Or how about witnessing
a fraternity brother driving by in an Alpha Romeo?.... "There goes the
Alpha in the Alpha!!" :-)
Angela Reid
XMegasusX wrote in message <19990530021928...@ng-cq1.aol.com>...
<snip>
>Well, lots of car names are really just... pointless. I have a Chevy
Blazer..
>and it's far from Blazing.. (until I accidentally spill oil on the outside
of
>the hot engine and it starts smoking.. but.. ya know.. :)
I used to drive a Plymouth Fury that was neither angry nor given to avenging
offenses against gods and nature. The Grand Fury with which I replaced it
was no more so.
They were, however, pretty kick-ass cars. For boats. :)
Angela
Richard H.
<ang...@rmta.org> wrote:
The worst car name ever has to be the Chevy Nova........when it was
marketed to Mexico.
In Spanish, "Nova" means "doesn't go".
-Richard
Angela Reid
Richard H. wrote in message ...
>In article <7j3g05$2n$2...@fir.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, "Angela Reid"
><ang...@rmta.org> wrote:
>
>> XMegasusX wrote in message
<19990530021928...@ng-cq1.aol.com>...
>> <snip>
>> >Well, lots of car names are really just... pointless. I have a Chevy
>> Blazer..
>> >and it's far from Blazing.. (until I accidentally spill oil on the
outside
>> of
>> >the hot engine and it starts smoking.. but.. ya know.. :)
>>
>>
>> I used to drive a Plymouth Fury that was neither angry nor given to
avenging
>> offenses against gods and nature. The Grand Fury with which I replaced
it
>> was no more so.
<snip>
>
>The worst car name ever has to be the Chevy Nova........when it was
>marketed to Mexico.
>In Spanish, "Nova" means "doesn't go".
That's true, but at least it didn't affect the reception of the vehicle.
From _Business Mexico_, June, 1993
"The most often cited auto blunder is the Chevrolet Nova (the phrase "No va"
translates in Spanish as "It doesn't go") which General Motors wanted to
bring into Mexico in the early 1970s. Although GM's Mexican managers were
worried about the name, Nova was indeed used.
"They kept the name and it sold very well," says marketing analyst Cecilia
Bouleau, who disputes the conventional wisdom surrounding the moniker. "It's
the same thing with Nova gasoline. I think that the word is sufficiently
incorporated into the language as meaning 'new' -- as in 'bossa nova' --
that the criticism isn't valid."
Personally, I think the worst marketing -campaign- for a car is that one
that's "like a rock." What a great image for a moving vehicle. <Angela
rolls her eyes>
Angela
Richard H.
<ang...@rmta.org> wrote:
> >The worst car name ever has to be the Chevy Nova........when it was
> >marketed to Mexico.
> >In Spanish, "Nova" means "doesn't go".
>
>
> That's true, but at least it didn't affect the reception of the vehicle.
> From _Business Mexico_, June, 1993
>
> "The most often cited auto blunder is the Chevrolet Nova (the phrase "No va"
> translates in Spanish as "It doesn't go") which General Motors wanted to
> bring into Mexico in the early 1970s. Although GM's Mexican managers were
> worried about the name, Nova was indeed used.
>
> "They kept the name and it sold very well," says marketing analyst Cecilia
> Bouleau, who disputes the conventional wisdom surrounding the moniker. "It's
> the same thing with Nova gasoline. I think that the word is sufficiently
> incorporated into the language as meaning 'new' -- as in 'bossa nova' --
> that the criticism isn't valid."
> Angela
Wow!
How did you know that off the top of your head?
I bow humbly to your genius.
-Richard
Caryn Dupuis
><19990601015357...@ng-cd1.aol.com>...
>> ~~meaghyn <tori_...@usa.net> wrote in big purple crayon:
>>
>> >Personally, when I was younger, i thought it was dumb how the cars were
>> >named after the zodiac....and I can talk, because I drive a Dodge Aries.
>> >Ford Taurus, Dodge Aries, Dodge Ram (going back to the Aries). I can't
>> >remember anymore.
>>
>> Actually, according to my name book, every zodiac name has at one time or
>> another been used for a car except Cancer. Gee, I wonder why... :)
>>
>> Sophie
I wonder...has there ever been a car named Virgo? I can't remember, but my
memory isn't too good. Cheesy? Maybe...but I'd buy it!
- C
"I read the Greek upon the stars...the alphabet of feelings..." ~Indigo
Girls
Angela Reid
Richard H. wrote in message ...
>How did you know that off the top of your head?
>
>I bow humbly to your genius.
You can bow humbly to my reference resources, if you like. I know I often
do. :)
I'm a big fan of urban legends. I even got a real live honest to goodness
letter from the king of them, Jan Harold Brunvand. (I did! I really did!)
I've been a lurker on AFU as long as I've been on RMTA, which is a pretty
long time now.
Angela
Talamasca
as how my demented mind reads one.
I often see, in the parking lot at work, a Suzuki Grand
Vitara. Every time I see the name on the back, I read the last word
as Viagra.
[Tala can just see the ad: "When you really have to have a
vehicle with a penis under the hood...."]
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>
>
>EveApple7 <evea...@aol.computer> wrote in article
><19990601015357...@ng-cd1.aol.com>...
>> ~~meaghyn <tori_...@usa.net> wrote in big purple crayon:
>>
>> >Personally, when I was younger, i thought it was dumb how the cars were
>> >named after the zodiac....and I can talk, because I drive a Dodge Aries.
>> >Ford Taurus, Dodge Aries, Dodge Ram (going back to the Aries). I can't
>> >remember anymore.
>>
>> Actually, according to my name book, every zodiac name has at one time or
>> another been used for a car except Cancer. Gee, I wonder why... :)
>>
>> Sophie
>>
>--------------
>Driving through Tacoma, WA seeing so many of the Toyota Tacomas doesn't
>really ever do anything positive for me. I've got to vote for the Dodge
>Intrepid, The Toyota Rav 4, the Nissan Stanza (A stanza is part of a
>poem!!) Toyota Tacoma, and The AMC Pacer. A Pacer is an NBA basketball
>player in Indiana, and should not be a car. There was a car in the 70's
>named Honey Bee, also. I know there's a car named Hornet, but this car was
>called Honey Bee and it was an AMC or a Plymouth or something... it was an
>American car.
snip
>
The Hornet is a revered name in the history of american motorcars. It
was a model made by Hudson. After Hudson was bought out by
Studebaker, the name was used for a few years on Studebakers and then
retired until AMC (which had bought Studebaker)revived it in the 70s
for use on the excreable car they produced. Now that Chrysler (which
bought AMC) and Daimler have merged, can it be long before we see a
Mercedes Hornet?
While Pacer the car was also quite erm quirky, I believe it predates
the bball team and it wouyld therefore be more proper to say an
Indiana Pacer is a car in a junkyard :-)
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nymsa
> This isn't really so much about a lame name for a car as much
>as how my demented mind reads one.
> I often see, in the parking lot at work, a Suzuki Grand
>Vitara. Every time I see the name on the back, I read the last word
>as Viagra.
you're not the only one. we were stopped in traffic the other day and
anthony misread the side of the vehicle next to us in exactly the same
way.
> [Tala can just see the ad: "When you really have to have a
>vehicle with a penis under the hood...."]
<laugh> precisely. and i don't want to know what the commercials
would look like. or what type of mechanics you would go to for
repairs...
--nymsa (fleeing and hiding)
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XMegasusX
You know.. I was just thinking about this the other day when I was delivering
my newspapers. and noticed how so many cars are named after horses. I guess
it's supposed to be a stupid pun.... 'horse power' ... horse names... like..
the Bronco.. har har.. (Who else thinks of OJ everytime a Bronco is mentioned?)
The Mustang... hmm.. what else.. I know there are more. Oh! I saw one called a
Colt... lol.. ugly lil old car. :) any other horse car names i'm not thinking
of? Don't get me wrong.. I love horses.. but the whole horse pun in car names
is kinda silly. Can they ever think of a completely original name for a car? A
Znordblarf or something... that's original. (Yet still rather corny...)
-Meg, who's still procrastinating homework..
Robert Kane
>
> <snip lame car stuff>
>
> You know.. I was just thinking about this the other day when I was delivering
> my newspapers. and noticed how so many cars are named after horses. I guess
> it's supposed to be a stupid pun.... 'horse power' ... horse names... like..
> the Bronco.. har har.. (Who else thinks of OJ everytime a Bronco is mentioned?)
> The Mustang... hmm.. what else.. I know there are more. Oh! I saw one called a
> Colt... lol.. ugly lil old car. :) any other horse car names i'm not thinking
> of?
You forgot the best one of them all....
PINTO
~Robert
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> You forgot the best one of them all....
> PINTO
which is, btw, portugeuse for dick. this causes me to snicker when
ordering pintos'n'beans at taco hell.
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* you don't realize how irritating it was 'til it's gone *
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WyrdWoman
>Robert Kane <roekb...@mailhost.det.ameritech.net> wrote:
>> You forgot the best one of them all....
>> PINTO
>
>which is, btw, portugeuse for dick. this causes me to snicker when
>ordering pintos'n'beans at taco hell.
Frank -n- Beans!! </There's Something About Mary>
Sorry, couldn't resist!
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Rich Mielke
<roekb...@mailhost.det.ameritech.net> wrote:
> As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking where
>do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do you
>think is the lamest car name out there?
>
>my pick: Suzuki Esteem (hmm..I think I'll go out and buy myself
>some esteem)
Someone else mentioned the Ford Aspire. I'd like to add the
Oldsmobile Achieva to the list. "I haven't made it big yet, so I'll
buy a car that sounds like I have. Maybe it'll rub off."
Whenever I see a Chevy Impala, I get this feeling that I should be
carrying a lance out the drivers window and wavng it in self defense.
Once I saw a Chevy Lumina on the side of the road . . . on fire. I
haven't seen a Blazer doing this yet, however.
== Rich the /nadspouse
Dani Dorresteyn
>Whenever I see a Chevy Impala, I get this feeling that I should be
>carrying a lance out the drivers window and wavng it in self defense.
Hi Rich!
What about a Dodge Ram? Makes ya wonder... Dodge Ram-- the oxymoron
of car names!
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>== Rich the /nadspouse
*blink*
I've never -ever- had someone define themselves in terms of me before.
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"WyrdWoman" <amy....@SPAMmindspring.com> wrote:
> Robert Kane wrote in message...
> > As I was driving home from work this afternoon, I was thinking
where
> >do they come up with the names for some of these cars. So what do
you
> >think is the lamest car name out there?
> >
> >my pick: Suzuki Esteem (hmm..I think I'll go out and buy myself
> >some esteem)
>
> reason. I also hate the Y2K = Yes2Kia commercials. They must use D&D
> Advertising Agency (from Melrose Place, remember?).
>
> ~*~*~*~*~*~
> WyrdWoman
> I live in Spain and am considering buying a minivan made by Mercedes
Benz called the "Vito" ! With a name like that you could go into
business offering your own protection racket or delivering bodies to
the New Jersey swamps ! I wanted to bargain with the salesman, but he
had made me an offer I can't refuse !
>
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Dani Dorresteyn wrote:
> What about a Dodge Ram? Makes ya wonder... Dodge Ram-- the oxymoron
> of car names!
>
The name was chosen to suit to hyper-testosterone charged men. There had
to be a certain degree of "punch" to the name. It's not the name so much
as the machismo charged drivers that have em.
Rich Mielke
wrote:
Well, now that there's apparently more than one Rich running around, I
guess I need to add something like "hewritesletters".
== Rich
Jess
>once upon a time, Talamasca wrote:
>
>> This isn't really so much about a lame name for a car as much
>>as how my demented mind reads one.
>> I often see, in the parking lot at work, a Suzuki Grand
>>Vitara. Every time I see the name on the back, I read the last word
>>as Viagra.
>
>you're not the only one. we were stopped in traffic the other day and
>anthony misread the side of the vehicle next to us in exactly the same
>way.
To get off on a tangent, there's a new drug that might kick Viagra.
They were trying to develop a drug that creates a tan w/o the sun and
found it had, ermmm, interesting side effects.
Be very afraid if you see Bob Dole with a tan.
Aimee Lortskell
> qua...@rmta.org (Nadyne Mielke) wrote:
> >attention, r...@rmta.org (Rich Mielke) wrote:
> >>== Rich the /nadspouse
> >*blink*
> >I've never -ever- had someone define themselves in terms of me before.
> Well, now that there's apparently more than one Rich running around, I
> guess I need to add something like "hewritesletters".
richhetakesabuse? FTR, jason felt very sorry for you, spending an entire
weekend with both /nad and me to torment you while he had the house all to
himself, nag-free. you can return the favour and be sorry for him while
he's in portland. :)
Nadyne Mielke
attention, Aimee Lortskell <ai...@rmta.org> wrote:
>Rich Mielke <r...@rmta.org> wrote:
>> qua...@rmta.org (Nadyne Mielke) wrote:
>> >attention, r...@rmta.org (Rich Mielke) wrote:
>> >>== Rich the /nadspouse
>> >*blink*
>> >I've never -ever- had someone define themselves in terms of me before.
>> Well, now that there's apparently more than one Rich running around, I
>> guess I need to add something like "hewritesletters".
>richhetakesabuse? FTR, jason felt very sorry for you, spending an entire
>weekend with both /nad and me to torment you while he had the house all to
>himself, nag-free. you can return the favour and be sorry for him while
>he's in portland. :)
Rich will have ColumbiaCon all to himself, too. :)
/nad