# Have all the good car names been used? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128 "2016-10-10T05:14:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 10, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/21 "2016-10-10T23:31:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Parrot. No irony, no jokes. Just… Hyundai Parrot or something… But I still like Parrot. How about if we jazz it up with the Italian spelling, Papagallo? The Fiat Pappagallo! Dennis ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/22 "2016-10-11T01:01:09Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > \ Flotilla - Honking big SUV that converts to small fleet of subcompact cars and back again. Popular with circus clowns? Or maybe Shriners? ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/23 "2016-10-11T12:52:16Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > My favorite was the XR4Ti. Was there ever an XR3Ti? A YR4Ti? How can you have a name that sounds like a designation with no “context”? It looks like a pattern of one. > > Merkur actually borrowed the designation from Ford, where it was just a trim/performance level, the Ford Sierra XR4 and XR4i. > > Ford lead up to that with the Falcon XR (not sure if it was the XR1), Fiesta XR2 and the Escort XR3i, and the Sierra later had an XR6 and XR8. > > Merkur only had the XR4Ti and the Scorpio, not a bad name. > > Dennis Merkur was a Ford owned (via Lincoln-Mercury) brand. They took the German Sierra and Scorpio and modified them to meet US safety and emissions standards. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/24 "2016-10-11T13:17:12Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I have one word for you…Thundercougarfalconbird Back in the early 80s National Lampoon had a writer who took an old beater and fake souped it up - gutter pipes along the sides as fake exhaust pipes, a metal paint tray bolted upside down on the hood as a scoop, that kind of stuff. He spray painted it Rustoleum flat black and called it the Thunderchicken. (Because it looked like thunder but ran like a chicken.) ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/25 "2016-10-11T13:40:42Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Car makers have never been direct enough. They should just name the models based on their intended customer base. > > Volkswagon Dork > Toyota Geek > Ford Redneck > Chrysler Mom > Buick Oldster > BMW Jerk > > etc. Or intended use… Land Rover Fieldfucker ---
**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:** [October 11, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/26 "2016-10-11T20:55:39Z")
Reminds me of the old Freddy Fuckerfaster jokes. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/27 "2016-10-11T21:59:20Z")
I’ve got a Commando, but I always wear boxers. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/28 "2016-10-12T02:00:56Z")
If names such as Armada, Millenia, and Spectra are acceptable, I want to see vehicles named Herd, Swarm, and Flock. They’d make as much sense. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/29 "2016-10-12T02:10:29Z")
AMC borrowed the Pacer name from Ford. Ford used the name for one of the Edsel models. Someone at AMC should have looked into how _that_ turned out before picking it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/30 "2016-10-12T03:00:00Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > 49 of California’s 58 counties have not been used yet. Only one Wisconsin city has been used, so there is still Sheboygan and Wauwatosa… When SUV/pickup marketers get stumped for a name, they get a big map of the western half of North America and throw darts at it. So we get names from Yukon to Baja. Give them time, the darts will land in those other places eventually. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > When I first saw a Toyota Tacoma, I thought “_Somebody_ lost a bet.” Why would they name a truck after Seattle’s armpit? I had the same reaction. Obviously those guys had never heard the phrase “the aroma of Tacoma”. Their dart just landed in the wrong place. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/31 "2016-10-12T04:32:51Z")
The Subaru Ladiesnight The VW Plumsmuggler The Porsche Taxdodge ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/32 "2016-10-12T06:19:28Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > 49 of California’s 58 counties have not been used yet. Got curious about which nine California counties have been used. So far I have Cadillac Eldorado Chrysler Imperial Mercury Monterey GMC Sonoma Pontiac Ventura There was also a Chrysler Alpine, although according to Wikipedia, it wasn’t marketed in the US. Don’t know if you count that one or not. What are the others? > [@Shagnasty](#): > > Car makers have never been direct enough. They should just name the models based on their intended customer base. > Chrysler Mom Oldsmobile Father (yes, it’s your father’s Oldsmobile). ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/33 "2016-10-12T11:29:54Z")
In keeping with the sleek and swift brand imagery of sea creatures such as Stingray, Marlin and Barracuda, I offer these powerful car names in good faith to the various manufacturers: Audi Anchovy Buick Blobfish Chrysler Clownfish Dodge Dogfish Ford Flounder Hyundai Humuhumunukunukuapua’a Jaguar Jewfish Lexus Lungfish Mitsubishi Monkeyface Prickleback Nissan Noodlefish Peugeot Pickled Herring Saab Smelt Toyota Toadfish ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/34 "2016-10-12T22:19:08Z")
There are still plenty of horse names to go around even if the pony car era is (kind of) over: Chevy Percheron Ford Arabian Hyundai Mongolian Pony Chrysler Quarter Nissan Piebald ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/35 "2016-10-13T12:22:26Z")
Just start naming them after diseases in other languages; that ought to buy a decade or three. (Hyundai “Beriberi” or Ford “Kuru”? Lamborghini “Seborrhea”?) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128/36 "2016-10-14T21:07:09Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Got curious about which nine California counties have been used. So far I have > > Cadillac Eldorado > Chrysler Imperial > Mercury Monterey > GMC Sonoma > Pontiac Ventura > > There was also a Chrysler Alpine, although according to Wikipedia, it wasn’t marketed in the US. Don’t know if you count that one or not. What are the others? I found Ford Sierra. Also, there was a British car called the Sunbeam Alpine that was sold in the USA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-good-car-names-been-used/768128.md?page=1)