# Cars with Scottish names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215 "2021-06-28T23:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/1 "2021-06-28T23:09:00Z")
I only found one - the Argyll GT. Maybe there aren’t anymore. Mind you, there were plenty of cars manufactured in Scotland but they had names like Hillman and Scamp. I thought the Saturn Skye was one but turns out it is spelled “Sky”. Missed opportunity if you ask me. This may be the most mundane thing I ever posted . Apologies to Northern Piper although since I am a MacDonald perhaps I can be forgiven. Or not. Maybe he’s a Campbell… ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/2 "2021-06-28T23:13:32Z")
The McLaren? Bruce McLaren was born in New Zealand but his family’s name may be Scottish. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/3 "2021-06-29T00:44:05Z")
There’s a Toyota Highlander. ---
**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/4 "2021-06-29T01:41:09Z")
Albion Motors was a Scottish motor manufacturer that was taken over by Leyland Motors in 1951, but the brand remained in use for a further 20 years. They produced a variety of lorry and bus models, many of which had distinctively Scottish names - the Chieftain, the Clansman, the Clydesdale, the Reiver, the Claymore, the Cameronian (lorries); the Aberdonian, the Lowlander and another Clydesdale (buses). ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/5 "2021-06-29T04:17:59Z")
Would the [Studebaker Scotsman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Scotsman) count? ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/6 "2021-06-29T04:58:25Z")
It’s a little know fact Sonny Jim that the Ford Focus was named after after a verb of wha’ the poxy Brits did to the Scots since Edward the Confessor… 😆 ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/7 "2021-06-29T06:08:54Z")
There’s a Gordon [Gordon (1954–1958) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_(1954%E2%80%931958)) and a Gordon-Keeble [Gordon-Keeble - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon-Keeble) And an Elgin [Elgin (automobile) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_(automobile)) No “maybe” about Maclaren / McLaren being a Scots name; it’s a Highland clan: [Clan MacLaren - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacLaren) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/8 "2021-06-29T11:14:16Z")
Of the 20 most common surnames now in Scotland, only #8-MacDonald starts with “Mc” or “Mac” > **[BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Most common surnames revealed](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2775365.stm)** > > A survey by the General Register Office unveils the top surnames in Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/9 "2021-06-29T12:45:40Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > wha’ the poxy Brits did to the Scots since Edward the Confessor… There were no Brits till England got a Scottish king. “Great Britain” was James VI/I 's idea. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/10 "2021-06-29T13:46:22Z")
In Canada, there was the [McLaughlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaughlin_Motor_Car_Company). ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/11 "2021-06-29T13:50:57Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > There’s a Toyota Highlander. Yeah, but only one. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/12 "2021-06-29T19:51:41Z")
They were still Britons though were they not? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/13 "2021-06-29T21:08:45Z")
Not really. Before the creation of Great Britain, Britons referred to an ancient tribe thoroughly diluted by the influx of Anglo-Saxons and Normans. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-with-scottish-names/945215/14 "2021-06-30T01:19:17Z")
This is what I get for trying to be funny…