MartinC
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Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
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Apr 13, 2008 15:30:50 GMT
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exotic locations such as - Cresta, Cortina, Firenza, Capri, Granada
exotic sounding names like - Viva!
prominant political/social positions such as - Senator, Royale, Viscount, Diplomat, Viceroy, Commodore, Princess, Ambassador,
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Last Edit: Apr 13, 2008 15:44:25 GMT by MartinC
1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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MartinC
Part of things
Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
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Apr 13, 2008 15:36:10 GMT
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Vauxhall Nova known as Opel Corsa everywhere else in world. Apparently Nova means 'doesn't go' in some other language. Be interesting trying to sell a car with No Go on the bootlid.
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1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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MartinC
Part of things
Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
Posts: 935
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Apr 13, 2008 15:40:44 GMT
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VX four-ninety, VX 4/90 & VX 490 (yes they are all different cars) came from VauXall, Four cylinder, Ninety miles an hour of the original 1508cc FB version.
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1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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starionturbo
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Is planning mental turbo action MU HUH HUH!!!
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Apr 13, 2008 15:46:07 GMT
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Mitsubishi Pajero,Little pony or masturbator in Spanish...did I hear someone say that Mitsubishi never got a name wrong? I didn't said they never got it wrong, i said they would never INTENTIONALLY let a car got out with the wrong name. I don't know version names but I do know that Mitsubishi means "Three water caltrop" or " Three water chestnut": Mitsubishi=Japanese for "3 dimonds."
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MartinC
Part of things
Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
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Apr 13, 2008 15:47:10 GMT
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Family identity.
Vauxhalls beginning with letter V
Viva Victor Ventora VX 4/90 VX 1800/2300 Viscount Velox Viceroy
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1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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dugong
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One Of Us Will Live To Rue The Day We Met Each Other (Wire : 2008)
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Apr 13, 2008 15:49:21 GMT
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No va means 'doesn't go' or 'doesn't work' in Spanish.
I read somewhere that the BMC cars of the fifties \ sixties were named after prominent places of Worship \ Universities, e.g. the Austin Westminster or Morris Oxford.
The Riley 4 \ 72 in the same ADO 9 family was named because it had 4 doors and cylinders, with 72 horsepower. 4 \ 68 followed the same thinking.
Volvo's number \ name policy never really made much sense. Allegedly their codes from the late sixties were based on:
First number: series Second number: number of cylinders Third number : number of doors.
Hence 164 is a big wafty trad saloon with a straight 6 and four doors. It doesn't really work though (especially with the Amazon series). Amazons were only so called in Scandinavia because a German truck manufacturer, who branched out into motorcycles, owned the rights to the name and kicked up a stink when Volvo tried to market their saloon by the same name in Europe. There was some attempt at restitution because the motorcycle was a sales disaster and the car wasn't. They wouldn't budge though, so the 120 series was never known officially as the Amazon, in the same way the Beetle was not known as such until the late Sixties.
I always thought (and it states this in Clive Prew and Christy Campbell's books) that the VW had it's 'Beetle' name applied by Ivan Hirst's REME organisation, and the name 'Bug' was applied by the Americans when it started to take off there.
Mind you, for a long time just the name 'VW' told you what car make you were dealing with, as they were ubiquitous worldwide. Semiotically we're looking at the same sort of associations we get with 'Hoover' and 'Biro'. Signifiers become signifieds (Williamson : 1978). Job done lads.
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MartinC
Part of things
Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
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Apr 13, 2008 15:53:00 GMT
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Austin/BMC sought to state their British-ness by naming after cities & counties
Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Herefordshire Cambridge, Oxford, Westminster,
I'm sure there's more
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1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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skinnylew
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Club RR Member Number: 11
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Apr 13, 2008 15:56:54 GMT
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Same with rovers, but the rovers numbers don't seem to make as much sense to me. Rovers is fairly simple, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 series (going up in size order (dunno why no 3 or 5 ) then the engine size: 111-1.1, 114-1.4, 214-1.4, 220-2.0, etc etc Vitesse- Speed Metro- Montego- Maestro- a master of any art etc etc Omega - Last greek letter of the alphabet Nova - Star but No go in spain hence they are called Corsa's
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Last Edit: Apr 13, 2008 16:03:33 GMT by skinnylew
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skinnylew
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Apr 13, 2008 15:57:09 GMT
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Same with rovers, but the rovers numbers don't seem to make as much sense to me. Rovers is fairly simple, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 series (going up in size order (dunno why no 3 or 5 ) then the engine size: 111-1.1, 114-1.4, 214-1.4, 220-2.0, etc etc Vitesse- Speed Metro- Montego- Maestro- a master of any art etc etc Omega - Last greek letter of the alphabet Nova - Star or something similar
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Apr 13, 2008 16:51:11 GMT
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Porsches were always named after the original project code from the design department IIRC. And I know MR2 stood for Mid-engined RWD 2-seater, don't ask me about any other J cars though! MR2 Stood for Midship Runabouts 2 seats, as far as I am aware.
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Apr 13, 2008 16:53:08 GMT
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Porsches were always named after the original project code from the design department IIRC. And I know MR2 stood for Mid-engined RWD 2-seater, don't ask me about any other J cars though! MR2 Stood for Midship Runabouts 2 seats, as far as I am aware. That's what I was thinking too after watching the god-awful "Used Car Roadshow" and the presenter saying it stood for "Mid-engined Roadster 2-seater".
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No va means 'doesn't go' or 'doesn't work' in Spanish. Urban legend. "Nova" could mean "doesn't go" in the same way you could look at the word "notable" and read it as "no table". And the Spanish for "nova", as in the celestial body, is "nova". The more correct Spanish for "doesn't work" would be "no funciona". Chevy sold a Nova in Mexico too...
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary.
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MattW
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My Wiki-fu, it is strong.
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I don't know version names but I do know that Mitsubishi means "Three water caltrop" or " Three water chestnut": Mitsubishi=Japanese for "3 dimonds." Well almost...the 'bishi part has 2 meanings - " Mitsubishi (三菱) has two parts: "mitsu" meaning "three" and "bishi" meaning "water caltrop" (also called "water chestnut"), and also "rhombus" " Diamond is ダイヤモンド not 菱
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Your car is not 'epic', this thread is not 'epic'....the OCEAN is epic, the UNIVERSE is epic.... please stop misusing this word!! It would appear Hotrods are the new VWs - aint fashion funny! '69 BUICK LESABRE 350
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mercmad
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Flush Hard,it's a long way to McDonalds.
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Lada means - 'Our little darling' or 'lovely little darling'. Niva means 'cornfields' So the 4x4 Lada Niva is called 'Our little darling for the cornfields' Nyet! NIVA (pronounced NYva ) is the name of the River Niva in Northern Russia. But regarding Car names what about the Chevrolet NIVA made in the VAZ car plant? or the ZIS 101A sports.
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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mercmad
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Flush Hard,it's a long way to McDonalds.
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The Name Subaru is japanese for the pleiades star formation as can be seen in their badge. Also means " the ugliest sound to ever emanate from a car exhaust" too. Never heard of a person who doesn't like the beautiful burbling sound of an Impreza before... to me the off beat sound of a soob with a big 'fart can' muffler sounds like it has a dead cylinder. I've never heard one burble,just't the sickening sound of them driving past my house . I feel like I want to grab one and change the plugs or replace the burnt valve that's making it sound like that.;D ;D ;D
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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Odin
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My Wiki-fu, it is strong. Yeah, but uncited stuff on Wikipedia carries about as much weight as a guy down the pub I'm afraid. In my opinion 'midship runabout' sounds, well, wrong quite frankly. It is far more likely to refer to the generally accepted 'MR' referring to the drivetrain but we could punt this back and forth endlessly unless some concrete evidence is found.
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Last Edit: Apr 14, 2008 6:08:53 GMT by Odin
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The Doctor
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Apr 14, 2008 10:37:18 GMT
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the AW11 MR2 got that Midship Runabout written somewhere on the car (forgot where), so I think it's true //edit: doh, it's on the logostupid me ;D
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Last Edit: Apr 14, 2008 10:39:35 GMT by The Doctor
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Apr 14, 2008 11:05:10 GMT
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As I understood it a car company will design a new car, spend several hundred million on setting up for manufacture etc and then the marketing department leave a note out for the cleaners with a selection of names pulled at random from a dictionary on it and the one with the tick next to it in the morning is what the car is called. FIAT Ritmo, needed to be changed as apparently it was a brand of toilet paper in some markets, hence the reason why it was sold as the Strada here
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Apr 14, 2008 11:08:41 GMT
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I thought mr2,meant Midship,Runabout,2 seater. MR2 if you are or speak french isnt very flattering, m er de = merde = sh*t
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