Actually, the Civet is the weasel version…
It would explain the smell.
Great! How in the hell do you pronounce it? Tore-reg? Tow-reg? What?? Why couldn’t they call it the “Nomad” or the “Bedouin”?
Hey - I was born in 1980. I didn’t start noticing car models for at least 12 years. 
I’m with Perdita on this one. I’d prefer the name Yaris over 320SEL or A6 or whatever the hell non-name.
I believe it’s too-ah-reg. “Tuareg” is an alternative spelling.
Maybe Llada is a new brand from Wales?
How about the Ford Ka? That always struck me as a cop-out sort of name. Neat body design, though. Well, it was, seven years ago …
The folks at Pontiac thought so, too, but whaddya gonna do?
Speaking of Robocop cars, I always wondered if the exclusive use of the Ford Taurus as a police vehicle was intentional. (“Bull” is criminal slang for “law enforcement officer,” and especially thuggish prison guards, possibly originating with the practice off beating on folks with pizzles – dessicated bull penises.) Anyway, another instance of an intimidating name being applied to a less-than-intimidating vehicle.
Of. “Of beating.”
Don’t ask why my subconscious insisted on putting “off” next to “beating” in a sentence about manual use of penises. No idea.
If they ever make The Dark Tower into a movie, they have to have one of these in the background.
The GTO was popular, sure, but Ford had introduced the XL as a trim package for the Galaxie in '63. Olds has a long history of just using numbers for their cars and the big three have been using letters and/or numbers for their trucks even longer than that.
There are quite a few Latinesque car names here in Japan. I’ve seen the Mira (look!, in Spanish).
Lately there have been some Engrish names like the Toyota Let’s. Let’s. . .do what? Or there’s the Honda That’s. Nothing else, just That’s. <shakes head>
Belmopan would be a nice name for a car. Hell, just about any Central American city would be a nice car name. Montevideo. Quito. Caracas. The South American governments could make a killing by selling their city names to car manufacturers.
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the Suburu (?) ‘Tribeca’ SUV.
Name a big SUV after an urban neighborhood full of old, narrow streets, where most sensible people prefer to go by foot, taxi, subway, or even bus.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I recall an incident from High School. We were learning about evolution and someone from the class asked why the ship was called the Beagle.
After the teacher declined to give an answer the class turned towards me. I explained that the British had thousands of ships and it’s just impossible to give them all really cool names and that beagles were hunting dogs anyway.
All of the good names are taken.
I always thought the Ka looks like a vacuum cleaner.
I think the next UberSUV from Ford should be the Escanaba. a little Michigan humor for da Yoopers.
Ford Ka is obviously from Boston. Pahk the Ka in Hahvahd Yahrd.
The car that has always mystified me is Avalon. Its pretty, but …um…its a fictional place.
What’s next: Brigadoon? Shang ri La?
And hey, don’t besmirch the good name of the Toronado as it was not only my husbands first car but, I’m pretty sure, his first wife in the non-biblical sense.
I offer the following trio of car names as sure-fire top sellers:
The Mitsubishi Isotope. Mitsu already uses the radiation symbol, the public has been prepared for radioactive vehicles (i.e. the Chevy Cobalt), and you could market it as a model that is very slow to decay.
The Volkswagen Virion. Infectious good looks in a subcompact car.
The Ford Cavy. A mysteriously unused animal name. Small, cute, squeaks…well, maybe that one needs work.