Harley Morenstein: 8 Dumbest car names ever - car and driver
Increasingly ill Top 10 worst car names of all time.
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A lot of work goes into the making of a car The whole process can take months, even years, and have an idea on paper, in the factory, and on the living room floor is anything but easy Although course, while developing a car the ground up is a long and difficult undertaking because these cars prove is not always the most difficult times, something as simple as deciding what to name becomes the most grueling challenge was the great William Shakespeare who asked what a name, and we are here to answer all.
Here's our list of 10 cars in no particular order that failed to impress under their nicknames abyssal only check for you and make sure you add all feel deserve a dishonorable mention in the comments section below.
The Dictator began his automotive life Six Standard, and should have remained so had not been Studebaker Company renamed its vehicles in the mid-1920s to the dismay of the company it was also at that time a little trouble began to brew in europe and some rather pesky fellows by the name of Hitler and Mussolini began to dictator over the world a bad name Needless to say Studebaker wisely changed the name of freedom fly less, Director.
Oh Japan how we love you and not because of impressive cars, androgynous, spiky-haired protagonists, and delicious food that you gifted us, but because of your uncanny ability to play with English native speakers so do could dream of doing can you break the enigma that we can is the mysterious Wizard Isuzu Utility Neither the only mystery here is why someone Isuzu allowed the name first, especially when the nickname and Rodeo Amigo worked so much better.
Want to know what Paris is also We We asked a friend named Google and they told us that translates a French woman in Paris Imagine now to be honest, the Paris spent most of his busy days on Canadian roads, where french is widely spoken and a name like Paris could be enjoyed But Pontiac, in its infinite wisdom, decided that he would bring him south of the border where people apparently aspired to drive around a large, rear-drive sedan scruffy no thank you, we prefer not to be seen near the French woman in Paris.
Besides being slightly offensive, Nissan Homy Super Long has the distinction of being childishly hilarious While the simple statement super long enough to evoke a soft chuckle school hilarity is exacerbated when you realize m that looks surprisingly close to rn, well, you see where we're going with this.
All we can say is serious, Ford This is the best you could find In addition to its design impassive the real travesty here, in addition to pipe exhaust name-fold, Ford is actually regarded as the probe to be the successor of the legendary Mustang Fortunately that never came to pass and Ford Probe met his maker in 1997.
Of course, we could take the mature route and understand that the good people of Ford appointed its compact car after a lot of things, like a police escort, a security escort, or even a fighter WWII Instead this we can not help but associate it with less than savory service for lonely gentlemen anyway, Ford takes a terrible name that rightfully place on our list.
Don t get why the Hummer is a terrible name for a car ask President Clinton.
Why oh why is the question we ask ourselves contemplating the Mazda Scrum Wagon We do not really know where to start We know Scrum is a rugby term through British guy randomly in our office, but we don t care because Scrum sounds like a double meaning for us, it raises the question do you want to get around in our Scrum Wagon we did not want to think so.
The Datsun Fairlady occupies a strange space in our hearts automotive Firstly, we welcome the elegant and classic design; on the other, we condemn his show-tunes inspired nickname And to answer your question, yes, the Datsun Fairlady was named after the successful Broadway musical My Fair Lady Why Well, we doubt even people Nissan would be able to answer.
Most cars on our list are not only disgusting because of their name, but just terrible looking cars around not with the Audi e-tron even when developing a car that is leading and undermining wallet this electric supercar we can not help but think a more thorough audit process would have been for the costumes more Audi this is because turd roughly means a piece of excrement, according to our translator french, whose car does not look like its namesake in the slightest.
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