Another weird list. Looking for cars named after geological features, not just geographical. So far I have:
Chrysler Pacifica
Several companies made Atlantic or Atlantique cars
GMC Sierra
Pontiac Bonneville (the salt flats)
GMC Denali
Pontiac Catalina (Is an island both geological and geographical?)
All the other ones I can come with are just location names.
GMC Canyon.
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Sorry…was geographical, but not a feature.
[reminder to self: read, comprehend, respond.]
The Mercury Mountaineer, perhaps?
Toyota Highlander?
Subaru Outback?
Both can refer to specific areas (though pretty large areas in Scotland and Australia, respectively), but can also be more general.
The Volkswagen Golf, not named after the sport, but the geographical structure.
Do winds count? Then also the VW Passat, Scirocco and Bora, all named after winds.
ETA: in hindsight, I see that winds don’t count, they are meteorological phenomena. I confused “geological features” with “things you learned in geography class”.
Aren’t the Atlantic and the Pacific place names, not geological features? Geologic features would be things like mountains, cliffs, canyons, etc.
That said, there’s the Canyonero (though fictional; it was in The Simpsons) or the Oldsmobile Delta 88.
Oh, got another one, the Ford Taunus. Taunus is a region in Germany.
Seat named seventeen car models after Spanish cities or towns: Seat Ronda (a town in Andalucía), Seat León, Seat Toledo, Seat Ibiza, Seat Málaga, Seat Marbella, Seat Córdoba, Seat Inca (a town in the Isle of Mallorca), Seat Alhambra (in Granada), Seat Arosa (after the town Villagarcía de Arosa in the province Pontevedra), Seat Altea (in Alicante), Seat Arona (in the Island of Teneriffe), Seat Tarraco (the Roman name of Tarragona). Source.
Yes, those are more geography than geology, but geography takes place in or on top of geology, so there is that.
GMC Terrain. Great SUV. My wife drives one.
I would also question whether the Chrysler Pacifica is named after the Pacific Ocean, or the city of Pacifica, California. If it’s the latter then it would be just a location name, not a feature.
Honda Ridgeline
Lincoln Continental, perhaps?
Would El Camino count?
Nissan Frontier?
Toyota Tundra!
???
The game and the verb meaning to play the game are all I see in the dictionary.
Sorry, “Golf” means “gulf” in German.
GMC Acadia and Yukon
Chevy Tahoe
Toyota Sequoia, although technically that’s a tree
Ford Equator and Territory, both marketed in China I think.
How did I miss this???
Isn’t there some sort of car named “Mesa”?