Nope. A male falcon is a tiercel, not a tercel.
I love our new car. In the US you call it the Toyota Highlander.
Here, Toyota retail it as the Kluger.
We affectionately call ours “Freddy”.
Undeservedly. It’s a good car, the only achilles heel is fuel consumption, which is in fact reasonable for a surprisingly capacious vehicle.
Na. The Daihatsu Charadeis the worst screw up.
“I’m not a real car, but I play one on TV”
You mean the old Panda or the new Panda? Both have a 4x4 version.
The Lada Niva is noisy, slow, has crappy plastics and the electric systems fail all the time. But it is an inexpensive and very capable off-roader. Around here, many people use modified Nivas in raid and trial off road races.
A male falcon can be called either a tercel, a tercelet, or a tiercel. The terms are interchangeable. Check the dictionary.
Oops. :o
Ignorance fought. I’ll be over here at the blackboard, writing “Check the dictionary” about a zillion times.
Don’t feel so bad. I regularly make sweeping pronouncements that turn out wrong, and then I feel like :smack: .
Pontiac has a new car called the Torrent.
Great name. I think the car comes up on page 47 of Google results for that term.
Apparently, it’s a lovely girl’s name…judging by the number of under-20s that I know with that name. :dubious: I’m really hoping someone will tell me it was a girl’s name before the car existed, but I won’t hold my breath.
I see those Placenta Previas and all I can think is “EEwwww, why would they call it that?” Wait, you say that’s a Toyota? Oh, my bad… :smack:
Well, there’s always the story about the Mitsubishi Starion. The marketing team in Japan were looking for a name that implied speed, power, and above all, virility. Some bright spark came up with the idea of naming it after a male horse . . .
Regards
Testy
Thank you very much. I’d heard it as a joke several years ago. I had no idea someone actually believed it.
Now that you’ve shown me this, there are quite a few jokes I’d like to pass off as fact. Hmmmm. . .
Thanks
Testy
“Ya ya Milwaukee”.
(shudder)
-Joe
My favourite stupid car name is the Mazda Premacy. What’s that supposed to mean? Short form of supremacy? Family car (pregnancy)?
They get their names from video games. For example, the Ford FOCUS C-MAX ULTIMA and the upcoming Ford Katamari. (I hear that baby can really roll.)
I like this theme.
Ford Exfoliator: Describes what happens to your hands should you be silly enough to try to service your engine yourself.
Ford Excrutiating: Describes the feeling you get when you see how much it costs to fill up the tank.
Ford Ex-Rocks: Definitely a comment on Ford’s originality.
Sure, they just drive them across the Bering Land Bridge. It’s a toll road though, so it costs a little extra on shipping. 
I always wondered why Porsche thought naming their SUV after a chili pepper was a good idea: The Cayenne.