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friendoken
Joined: 19 Jan 2008
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 Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:29 pm Post subject: The worst name for a 4-wheeled vehicle |
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We went to a restaurant the other night and pulled in beside a new Isuzu pick-up truck. On closer inspection it was actually the...
``Isuzu Lemon``
I wonder how it runs |
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jgrant85
Joined: 31 May 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| ROTFL! |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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The Equus always make me wince. It might have been a decent enough name, like, forty years ago, but now the connotations are arson, naked Harry Potter, and prancing horsey-love.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(play)
Nothing against people who like that sort of thing, but it's not really what Hyundai had in mind, I think. |
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soviet_man
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| The Equus always make me wince. |
Not just an Equus.
 But an EQUUS "CHAIRMAN" !
Preferably black. With a mad ajosshi holding the door knob wheel handle on the steering wheel. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:04 am Post subject: |
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The Chevy Nova thing was pretty funny. However, I am looking on Snopes.com and first it says it was false, but then it claims the company sold it to a Spanish-speaking market and it didn't sell well.
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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How about the AMC Gremlin.
I have always wanted to drive an annoying little monster. |
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jgrant85
Joined: 31 May 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| earthbound14 wrote: |
How about the AMC Gremlin.
I have always wanted to drive an annoying little monster. |
Just make sure you don't get it wet or put gas in it (feed it) after midnight. haha |
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friendoken
Joined: 19 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:04 am Post subject: |
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I'm old enough to remember the Gremlin. I actually used the ubiquitous line of the time on a goofy teacher of mine who had one:
"Nice car Mr. Jones, does your wife drive the other half!"  |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Kyron or most of the SSangyong names. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| jgrant85 wrote: |
| earthbound14 wrote: |
How about the AMC Gremlin.
I have always wanted to drive an annoying little monster. |
Just make sure you don't get it wet or put gas in it (feed it) after midnight. haha |
And don't make the mistake I did of driving the AMC Gremlin on a windy night on the highway. It was like sailing a boat on the wrong tack. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| blurgalurgalurga wrote: |
| The Equus always make me wince. It might have been a decent enough name, like, forty years ago, but now the connotations are arson, naked Harry Potter, and prancing horsey-love. |
What makes me wince is that it's an incredibly ugly car, especially those awful brake lights. |
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freshking
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I always thought the Ford Aspire was a bad name. Aspire to be what, a VW? And on a different note Ssangyong makes quite possibly the world's ugliest cars. |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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I would gladly pay $20 to see a show by a band called
| blurgalurgalurga wrote: |
| Prancing Horsey-Love. |
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As for car names, I could never understand the thinking behind the Nissan Cedric. I mean, "Cedric"? Not Bob? Not Fred, Elizabeth, Stuart, Bartholomew or Phillip? Who's Cedric when he's at home? |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| Xuanzang wrote: |
| Kyron or most of the SSangyong names. |
Agreed. Rodius. |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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I thought Tempo as in Ford Tempo was a bad name and a bad car. It's a crappy weak mechanical qualities makes it, "Found on the Road Dead," more times than not. A Tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece of music and this 1980's and 1990's car really demonstrated the speed was slowing down for the American's economy with a weak engine, poor craftsmanship, no consideration for low income drivers depending on the car to go to work, and mechanical failures nearly every month, if not by the week for those drivers mostly living paycheck to paycheck. This car made so many young people broke and dead in the water and the replacement parts were over priced crap quality. They could had done much better. Tempo? More like the pace going backwards.
Sonata? It really does play a good quality tune for dependability.
Bongo truck? The beat goes on for Mr. El Cheapo to make a buck in an efficient manner. Not bad. Very practical.
Prince car? Oooooh, my rich mommy and daddy bought me a car! I'm a lucky young man. Silly.
RX7? I'm Mr. Hightech geek in my wheeled spaceship. Totally geek. LOL. |
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