El Camino Real was a man-made feature. The name is Spanish for the royal highway. It started in the 18th century as a foot path from Mexico City to San Francisco.
Now you’re really going to kick yourself:
Jeep Wrangler Sahara
One of the original names of Mt. Rainier among the local indigenous people was “Tahoma”. From that name came the city of Tacoma, and (I assume) the Toyota Tacoma.
And Jeep Gladiator Mojave.
Fairly sure the truck was named for the city. And there’s dozens of vehicles (most of them pickups and SUVs) named for cities. But the OP excludes those.
Addition: Subaru Baja
This topic overlaps somewhat with a thread I started on the old site:
Unfortunately, Discourse doesn’t support the lists from the old board, so my list looks really funky. Also, I somehow missed Toyota Sequoia on my list.
We’re pretty far along with the list of vehicle names. So I’ll raise a kinda-hijack / threadpee if not quite threadshit.
I’d like to return to the OP and ask them what they mean by a geological feature that’s not geographical?
To me a geological feature might be graben, lake, ocean, outcrop, alluvial fan, etc. A geographical thing is a place name. Now the place can be manmade, like Tacoma as in the city, or natural like Atlantic as in the ocean.
So to me many of the names so far offered, including all the OP’s examples, are geographical, not geological.
Hey @mixdenny: what am I, or all y’all, missing?
Ford.
Like in a river.
My original thought was a discreet physical feature not just something with a name like a city or area. Yeah the line blurs. An island is certainly a geographical feature. Not sure about Baja.
Baja (California) is both a peninsula and a state. (Well, two states, since there’s both plain Baja and Baja South.) Which one the vehicle is named after, I don’t know. I suspect the namers don’t really care.
So maybe a geographical / geophysical noun, but not proper noun?
e.g. “ridgeline”: yes; “Tomahawk Ridge”: no?
GMC Terrain
Triumph Dolomite (car)
Bonneville (motor bike if allowed)
Renault Alpine
“Can you name the truck with 4-wheel drive?
It smells like a steak at 6:35.
Canyonero. Canyonero!”
Pontiac made a Bonneville as well.
What about the Avalanche? It’s a geological feature, at least for a bit.
I think it’s “…and seats 35.”
Bonneville was also a model of car in the U.S., for the Pontiac marque, from the 1950s through the early 2000s.
Edit: didn’t see Telemark’s reply, saying the same thing.
That…makes a lot more sense.
Buick Riviera (a coastal region with a subtropical climate and vegetation)
Buick Cascada (Spanish word for waterfall)
Mercury Monteray (derived from Spanish for king of the mountain or mountain of the king)
Mercury Montego (derived from Spanish for mountainous)
Jeep Meridian - used for the Commander in India
Plymouth Horizon