Stupidest car name ever

[jim oldham]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

So what does it mean in German?

Or should I not ask...?

Same as merde in French IIRC.
Jim.

[hilrosepaul]

I was driving up the M5 from Chippenham to Manchester today after a meeting, and I saw a Bongo just like the one in the picture- weird or what?

[Scuttler]

toyota yaris ..... mind you it looks like what it sounds like so it might be wholly appropriate!

[Howard Payne]

I find the Mitsuoka Le-Seyde perfect for popping round to check on my Bitches

[aclivity]

are any car names really sensible?

Accord. Well, we were going to argue about right of way, but now we have reached an Accord and will take turns. If we need to move to a smaller car, we will think of our duty to the society we live in ... yes, we'll drive in a Civic manner. Smaller still? Lets think about non sequential music, different items in the car doing different things to different timescales, that all adds up to an annoying cacophony. That's right, we'll drive a Jazz. Nice.

Ford are no better. To look at, this vehicle is a boring shopping hatchback, but now I realise it's actually a Spanish style party on wheels, there must be a pinata hook in the roof of this Fiesta. Although it does remind me a little of the Uncle from the Addams Family.

I liked the names of the cars in Ben Elton's book "Gridlock", there was the Global Motors "Crappee" and the Panther "Kevin".

What is even funnier is the car manufacturers (and motoring journalists) attempts to categorise cars - there used to be small, medium and large, now we have micro, mini, supermini, small, small verging on medium, mini mpv (presumably that means it's multipurpose as long as none of the purposes involve a lot of space, or more than 2 people?), small family, family, mid-sized MPV, large family, van based cars, van based mpv's, large MPv's. Do we really care what "sector" a car is in? It's basically "has it got enough seats"?

[nomis]

When my wife worked for NATO in Germany back in the eighties she bought a Triumph Acclaim. The literal translation is "Sieg Heil"

[lloydwatkin]

Honda Joy Machine is another dull car.