# Recycling old car model names

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-old-car-model-names/995068>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 24, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-old-car-model-names/995068 "2023-12-24T02:38:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-old-car-model-names/995068/21 "2023-12-26T17:52:11Z")

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> [@kferr](#):
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> the Duster which was a Chrysler model back in the 70’s.

Duster hung around as a trim package as late as the mid 90s.

> **[Curbside Capsule: 1992-94 Plymouth Sundance Duster - Little Car, Big Engine -...](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-capsule/curbside-capsule-1992-94-plymouth-sundance-duster-little-car-big-engine/)**
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> Take a smaller than full-size car, shove a big engine in it and you have a muscle car. That was the recipe in the 1960s, when big-block V8s were wedged \[…\]

> [@EnolaStraight](#):
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> … the name of a muscle car from the 60s/70s.
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> So GMC simply changed the spelling…the **S** yclone.

I bet it couldn’t be a car for them to get away with it. Kia can’t rename their midsize sedan Eccord.

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