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Astronomical Autos List
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23-08-2010 7:41pm#1All,
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,
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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.0 -
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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
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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.)
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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!
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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
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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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSpntQ-VtY
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