I always thought “Rubicon” implied a degree of unreliability, since once you cross the Rubicon, alea iacta est.
So go ahead, strap in and throw the dice!
Ah yes, named for the obstetrical disaster. An ill-omened one, to be sure.
I wonder if any obstetricians ever owned one. I doubt they’d dare park it in the doctor’s lot at the hospital.
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At least they didn’t call it the Armado. That would’a been worse.
Lit.: assembled, erected (as in “crane” or “scaffold”). Fig.: erect, and I don’t mean standing up.
I want a Ford E(a)rnest!
I wonder why there’s never been a Dodge Bullet?
Jeep Custer, the only Jeep more offensive to Indians than the Cherokee.
Awhile back, one Doper who ran a transmission shop said he was fond of the Ford Exploder because of all the business that model brought to his shop.
Chevrolet went for a series of cars almost named with French horse words; Cavalier, Chevelle*, and Chevette. Citation was a famous race horse. Somehow they passed over Apple, Nag, Oatburner, and Gelding. Ford beat them to Pinto.
Cadillac once had French names like Coupe deVille, Calais, and Faux Pas. Oh, wait, not that one. Now, they use letters like CTS and, oddly, ETC. No IBS, though.
I was a little surprised Toyota didn’t go for the Jewish/Jedi tie-in with Oy! Yoda.
Oops. Forgot my asterisk. Chevrolet had a name-the-new-car contest among employees. The winning name was Cheval. Somebody in Marketing changed it to Chevelle.
The Daihatsu Diarrhea
The Isuzu Idiot
The Mazda Moron
The Ford Fuckup
The Toyota Turd
The Acura Anus
The Buick Bastard
The Nissan Nausea
Ford Mustang Hoof and Mouth Edition