Worst Car Names Ever!

eamon234

I think this could be an interesting thread
I'll start it off with my personal favourite:

Ford Probe (snigger!)

Sorry folks meant to post this on the main motors forum but feel free to contribute! Mods - can you move the thread please?

Max_Damage

Renault Le Car

That was the name of the Renault 5 in the North American markets. They could have been a bit more creative with the name.

ds20prefecture

Toyota Emina - pictures of a soapy hose spring to mind
Toyota Carina - Careening towards a ditch near you.
Toyota Prius - Pious twats more like
Nissan Sunny - Like a wet day in Roscommon
Nissan Maxima - Maximum boredom
Nissan Cherry - Imagine the shame of popping yours in one
Mitsubishi Carisma - oxymoron of the century
Skoda Superb - Skoda a bit above average, more like
Skoda Felicia - Cunnilingus for the common man
Citroen Bijou - Nice bit of Franglais, there. Lovely.
Land Rover Defender - Defending the British interests in Belfast for 40 yrs
Buick LeSabre - Le what now?
Chrysler LeBaron - Again, le what?

Redrocket

Renault Kangoo??? no thanx
car name acronyms
KIA -
BMW : Brings Me Women
BMW - Break My Window
BMW - Big Man's Willy ??
FIAT : Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
FIAT : Fix it again tomorow

colm_mcm

Nissan Cedric
Nissan Gloria
Mazda Bongo

corktina

Suzuki Swift always raises a smile.....

or anything Vauxhall....

Blue850

There was a version of the Fiat 127 called the Rustica.

PaulK_CCI

The Asian car manufacturers seem to be extremely inspiring when it comes to inventing goofy names for their products, some of these have (luckily ) never even ventured outside their home market, and no, I didn't make them up :

Subaru Brat
Daihatsu Naked
Honda Life Dunk
Honda That's
Isuzu GIGA 20 Light Dump
Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear
Mitsubishi Pistachio
Nissan Fairlady Z,
Nissan Prairie Joy
Suzuki Cappucino
Toyota Deliboy
Toyota Toyopet

The Americans didn't seem to think "Golf" was an appropriate name, so they decided to call them "Rabbit" over there.
Not that they did much better with names themselves, with the most often used example of misnaming: the Chevy Nova, which was a total flop for the Spanish speaking part of the country, where "No va" means No go!

In Holland the worst car name was the Fiat Croma, where Fiat totally ignored the fact that "Croma" is a household name in Holland for butter. Like driving around in a Fiat Kerrygold !!!

mustang68

Mitsubishi Pajero always makes Spanish speakers laugh, it translates to Mitsubishi masturbation. Really, not joking!

Dades

Hows about the Volkswagen Toerag?

Max_Damage

Isuzu Big Horn
Toyota Glanza
VW Bora (sounds like boring)

KTRIC

Sang Yong Rectum

Max_Damage

Skoda Roomster.

Eric318

Ford Nova (no-go in Spanish), with Ford standing for Fix Or Repair Daily
Toyota Aygo... please
Mazda Protege
Mazda 323 (Tarzan's car: tree to tree)
VW Cockroach, errh, Beetle
Cadillac Caprice (Tantrum/Whim in French)

Max_Damage

Eric318 wrote:

Cadillac Caprice (Tantrum/Whim in French)

Don't you mean Chevrolet Caprice?

AsphaltRisin'

Nissan Quashqai

In fairness... what sorrt of name is that?

Spit62500

Kia Cee'd
Kia Pride
Dacia Duster
Oldsmobile Tornado - quite suitable really as with front wheel drive, 7.0L engine and drum brakes no-one had a clue where it would go next or when it would stop...
Austin Maestro (Italian for master)- the one with the electronic dash and Thatcheresque voce should have been called the Dominatrix...
Asia Rocsta
Mahindra Indian Chief - a copy of the Jeep built under licence in India. Jeep like to use a lot of American Indian Tribal names for their machines so the 'real' Indians carried on the theme - wasn't only Christopher Columbus that was confused...
Ford Aspire - built by Kia, badged by Ford - wanted by no-one
Daffodil (the Dutch manufacturer)

TigerTim

Lancis Dedra

cxcully

Edsel.....similiarly disastrous history

PaulK_CCI

Spit62500 wrote:

Oldsmobile Tornado

not that it matters much, as it doesn't make the name any prettier, but it is in fact the Oldsmobile Toronado

cantdecide

PaulK_CCI wrote:

The Asian car manufacturers seem to be extremely inspiring when it comes to inventing goofy names

Nissan Fairlady Z

i think that's a fantastic name for a car- i don't know why

flat6

How about the Lancia Dedra :eek:

or the highly appropriate SSangyong (r)odious?

corktina

yes the Rodious should be the Rhideous shouldnt it...worst excuse for car design EVER

Blue850

Lancia White Hen (Y10)

maidhc

Shamrock

Wishbone Ash

The Simca Aronde Plein Ciel. (WTF!)

dave2pvd

Ford Crown Victoria
Mercury Grand Marquis

ToyotaDyna

Nissan/Datsun Homer - Light truck

macplaxton

Reliant: Robin / Kitten / Ant

Bedford: Rascal

Riley Elf / Wolseley Hornet

Austin Allegro (aka All-Aggro and it wasn't very fast either)

Cheers,
Rich

G Luxel

Alligator, not sure of the rest of the name but it is a 6 wheel nissan micra.
mitsubishi Lettuce, had 3 doors , made in the late 80s.

Ballykine43

What about the Ford KA.
Ford exec in a proper Dagenham accent replying to "What's that funny little new thing we just made?"

Oh thats our new car!

So if he wants to call it a KA that's what it will be!

2cv

How about some of the Citroens on the continent?
The Citroen Relay is called the Jumper over there, and the Dispatch is called the Jumpy.
Even the good old Synergie was called "Evasion"...

Now to my favourite, making fun of Toyotas... The MR2 has to be renamed in France because if you pronounce MR2 in French (m r deux) it sounds like Merde and we all know what that means Toyota just called the thing MR over there :-)