IIRC, the Nissan Sentra is marketed in the UK as the “Executive Bluebird Deluxe”
Actually, I belive it was the (Pontiac) Firebird that was supposed to have the name Banshee.
Still, you wonder where the heck the guy with the Book of Mythology was when they named the Gremlin.
Then again, my Uncle had one. Gremlin was a good name for it. ;)
I still giggle whenever I hear an ad for the Volkswagen “Toe-rag”
Whoever’s pronouncing it “Toe-rag” is a moron. The word is pronounced “TWAH-regg”. :rolleyes:
WHOOSH!!!
I realize that this is excessively pedantic, but that’s never stopped me before.
Nissan Maxima
Ki
Sonovagun, that was wild! The tip of my pinkie finger somehow got stuck between a bunch of keys and before I knew it my post got submittinated! Sorry 'bout that!
Anyway:
Nissan Maxima
Kia Spectra
In each case, we are talking about one car, yes? Then why isn’t Maximum and Spectrum?
Anal Lotus
Anal RoadRunner
Anal Excursion
Anal Beetle…
There’s also the Tongtain Glow.
I think I win with Anal Glow. :eek:
What? No one’s mentioned the Renault Twingo?
I’d like to second some of those already mentioned:
Daihatsu (that’s not a car, it’s a) Charade :rolleyes:
Toyota Previa :rolleyes:
Datsun/Nissan Sunny, Cherry, Violet etc. (blugh!)
Ford Probe (ouch!)
Mitsubishi Pajero 
…all old favourites of mine.
/slight hijack/ And not forgetting those annoyingly banal slogans on SUV spare wheel covers like “Tread softly on the earth’s environment”. The obvious reply? “Don’t drive an SUV”.
You mean Tread Lightly? That’s real, sorry. Or are you talking about those tire covers that are displayed on the “Engrish” website?
Acura Vigor
Porsche Boxster
Kia’s one of the worst offenders, cf Sportage (already mentioned), and Sephia. What the heck’s a Sephia?
Hmm. There’s the Ranger, the Hummer, the Armada, the Brat, and of course the Probe. But my vote goes for the Anal Thing.
I have heard that the Fiat Panda was going to be called the Fiat Rustica, until they considered marketing the Rustica (rusty car) in UK.
Waiting for someone to name their car model the Sfinkter.
There used to be a race series based on this car. They were relatively cheap and easy to drive. If you flipped it over during a race, a couple of guys would run out and flip you back over and off you’d go. A veteran car could be indentified by the lack of straight edges on the body work.
I’ve got to agree with the Ford Aspire.
Even the guys on Car Talk made fun of it, telling someone who owned one that he should Aspire to get a real car someday.*
Oh, and the VW Golf. Bwahahahaah.
- Paraphrased from memory
HUMMER. Hmmm!
I guess most English speakers think of the sport when they hear golf. Originally the name had nothing to do with that. It is named after the German word for gulf(stream). In the seventies VW introduced a naming scheme mostly centered around winds or weather: Golf, Passat, Scirocco and later Vento, Bora…. However most customers associated the sport. VW acknowledged that shortly after the introduction of the Golf when they named the next smaller model Polo. Since then the naming was ambiguous.
The tyre covers - I’m not surprised they’re on the “Engrish” website. The real things make even less sense than my paraphrasing from memory.
