# Sickening car names
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 2, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981 "2016-02-02T19:58:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/1 "2016-02-02T19:58:22Z")
I understand that Indian car manufacturer Tata is having to rebrand its newest model, which was to be called the Zica (for 'zippy car"), in the face of the developing Zika virus crisis (the mother of all lousy timings).
So how 'bout some disease-ridden or otherwise unappetizing names for other makes?
I open with the Ford Fluenza.
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### Author:  [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/2 "2016-02-02T20:02:31Z")
Subaru already has one; the STI. Once you have it, you’ll never get rid of it…
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/3 "2016-02-02T20:19:02Z")
I’ve always thought the “Dodge Ram” was kinda funny. Thanks, but you really don’t need to tell me to avoid crashing into it 😃
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/4 "2016-02-02T20:24:31Z")
I thought Ford was pretty ballsy in introducing a roughly suppository-shaped car called the “Probe.”
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/5 "2016-02-02T20:32:52Z")
> [@Diceman](#):
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> I’ve always thought the “Dodge Ram” was kinda funny. Thanks, but you really don’t need to tell me to avoid crashing into it 😃
No actually, that’s to attract the macho guys who want to use it to ram their way through traffic. And who think proper relations with the ladies is predicated mostly on their ramming.
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### Author:  [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/6 "2016-02-02T20:37:55Z")
“Prius” has always rubbed my fur the wrong way . . . it sounds kind of pubical.
I also offer up my “Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo Special Trail Edition.” Yup, that’s really her full name (BTW, I’m selling her – anyone in need of an 8-cylinder towing beast?)
Cars with equine-y names: Pinto, Mustang, et al rub my mane against the grain 🙂
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/7 "2016-02-02T20:44:35Z")
Cars with stupid names: there are SUVs named Sequoia (huge and immobile), Armada (Spanish is the only Armada anyone remembers, and we know how it fared), and Terrain (kinda like with Roadway trucks, I always want to paint an arrow pointing downward next to the name).
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/8 "2016-02-02T20:51:07Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> Sequoia (huge and immobile)
This is what made me snicker at all the Chevy truck ads that used “Like a Rock” as a jingle.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/9 "2016-02-02T20:56:48Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I thought Ford was pretty ballsy in introducing a roughly suppository-shaped car called the “Probe.”
We tried to Probe an Escort once, but she wouldn’t Focus, and when we complained, she Taurus a new one.
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/10 "2016-02-02T20:56:50Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> Cars with stupid names: there are SUVs named Sequoia (huge and immobile), Armada (Spanish is the only Armada anyone remembers, and we know how it fared), and Terrain (kinda like with Roadway trucks, I always want to paint an arrow pointing downward next to the name).
Best of all, Mitsubishi still sells the Pajero in many parts of the world. Even though _pajero_ is the Spanish equivalent of _wanker_.
Along those lines, it was funny when Mazda used to make such a big deal about their “wankel rotary engines.” Sounds like a car for losers who can’t get a date.
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### Author:  [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/11 "2016-02-02T20:57:16Z")
I always thought Crossfire was an odd choice for a vehicle name.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/12 "2016-02-02T20:59:58Z")
Chevy Cadaver, I mean Cavalier.
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### Author:  [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/13 "2016-02-02T21:06:03Z")
One can’t forgive AMC for the Gremlin.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/14 "2016-02-02T21:06:33Z")
The Dihatsu Charade - pretending to be a car.
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/15 "2016-02-02T21:16:04Z")
> [@enipla](#):
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> The Dihatsu Charade - pretending to be a car.
How did I forget that? That’s one’s in the Hall of Fame for bad car names!
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### Author:  [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/16 "2016-02-02T21:17:22Z")
Toronado
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/17 "2016-02-02T21:41:20Z")
Hummer (“I have a small penis, so I drive a big truck named after a blowjob”)
Citation (let’s name a car after a traffic ticket!)
Nova (forget the “doesn’t go” urban legend-- why name a car after a massive explosion?)
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/18 "2016-02-02T21:56:47Z")
The Toyota Tundra TRD (turd). A shitty truck, I’m guessing?
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### Author:  [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/19 "2016-02-02T22:15:33Z")
Kia had a concept car called the Provo, which was also the term for an IRA member, and this defused (hah) their plans to market the car in the UK/Ireland. [Link](http://wardsauto.com/industry/kia-s-provo-concept-car-sparks-uk-controversy)
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickening-car-names/744981/20 "2016-02-02T22:17:04Z")
Nissan Qashquai.
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