Astronomical Autos List

FISMA

All,

It never ceases to amaze me how many cars have a name that deals with Astronomy: celestial bodies, constellations, and so on.

I thought it would be interesting to start a list and see how many cars we can name that relate to Astronomy.

I will start - Subaru, which is Japanese for wonderful, represents the Pleiades,

rccaulfield

dya remember the nova? vauxhall wa it?
Ford Galaxy!
Ford orion.

Roomic Cube

Saturn cars

FISMA

Mercury

Ford Ranger - Ranger moon missions of the 60's

Comet

Dodge Voyager MiniVan - another space mission

The Mitsubishi Triton

The Eclipse

The Civic del Sol - Sun

BTW - RCCaufield, I heard the Nova, a great seller in the States, sold very little in Spain or France. The story goes that they never changed the name: No - va, which is kind of like naming your car no - go! Don't know if it is true, but it sounds good.

Cú Giobach

1932 Triumph Southern Cross.


Opel Astra;
Astra, From Greek mythology the children of Astraeus, the Gods of the 5 "wandering stars" .
The 5 naked eye planets.

Plug

Ford Taurus - The constellation Taurus represents a bull in ancient mythology. The cars have been a popular Ford model starting in the mid 1980s.

Chevy Nova - Nova is an explosion on the surface of a binary star.

FISMA

Plymouth Satellite

Ford Probe

Another Constellation - Ford - Merkur Scorpio

Wertz

Peugeot Quasar concept.



Nissan Pulsar; Old & New






Mercury Comet (double points? )

FISMA

Cannot believe I forgot the Pulsar!

How about the summer triangle: Deneb, Altair, and

Vega

Seems like there's a lot of names from the 60's and 70's.

I guess the Chevy Equinox could qualify as astronomical-ish

Cú Giobach

Lotus Europa.



Nice thread, Cheers FISMA

FISMA

Thanks Cú Giobach, I never realized there was a car called the Southern Cross. Where was it made?

It is taking me all I can do to not Google this thread's topic but rack my brain. I'll let it run a while longer...

There's quite a few cars dealing with the Sun

Nissan Sunny

The del Sol as already mentioned.

Toyota Solara, sounds sun like

Dodge Aries K - a truly forgettable car

Toyota Carina

Cú Giobach

FISMA wrote: »

Thanks I never realized there was a car called the Southern Cross. Where was it made?

Woke up this morning thinking of the Solara, only to see you get there first

The Toyota Carina ahh "Face palm" my father had one for years.

The Southern Crosses were made in Coventry.
They were the sports versions of the Super Nine and later the Gloria.
Exported mostly to Australia & NZ.


Can't resist either, gonna start googling later, or with "will power" tomorrow.

J Clarkson took on of these for a test drive on TG. Ariel Atom.
( Ariel, Urainian moon.)

ynotdu

Real novel and fun idea for a thread Fisma.I have got a great kick from it.This one surely should top the list though?
It is the real reason the car salesman Bill cullens has paid virgin Galatic to be the first Irishman into space as unfortunatly there are only three of them and NASA carelesly left them on the Moon.If this did not draw People to Cullens Showrooms i don't know what would;
I present the Lunar ROVER!



and the fun of taking it on a test ride!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSpntQ-VtY

Cú Giobach

ynotdu wrote: »

I present the Lunar ROVER!

Ynotdu Wins!!!!

FISMA

Thanks yNotDu for the kind words, I thought it was a bit of a break from the norm.

I was driving along today looking at every car to see if I could get another. I think I need a new hobby.:pac:

Can't believe I forgot the Old Range Rover .

Anyhow, I cheated and found a few cars that I never heard of. There's the

Ford Meteor from South Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Meteor

The Ford AeroStar, again, astronomical-ish

Another I never heard of is the Ford Nucleon, a Nuclear powered concept car
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

lord lucan

Toyota Starlet ftw.:D

Plug

BMW M3, M5 and M6 all named after global clusters. Ah im cheating now:D