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Snuffy
October 1st, 2009, 18:29
Ever wonder about the car naming process?

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Lionheart
October 1st, 2009, 19:40
lol... That was pretty good.


Len Yao! lol....


Thanks for the heads up Snuffy.

:ernae:


Bill
Chacha
October 1st, 2009, 20:02
lol... That was pretty good.


Len Yao! lol....


Thanks for the heads up Snuffy.

:ernae:


Bill

... You memorized that word, huh!
Bjoern
October 2nd, 2009, 01:01
Politically correct car names...

http://www.rock-beats-paper.com/ha/facepalm.jpg
cheezyflier
October 2nd, 2009, 07:57
bjoern, i have to agree with you on that one. someday the backlash from all the pc nonsense is going to be real ugly.


otoh, that embedded player is very tidy looking. i like it better than youtube
n4gix
October 2nd, 2009, 12:07
Has anyone besides myself thought the new Kia "Soul" to be a rather stupid name, especially after watching their commercial?

I find myself thinking, "Yea right! Like some soul-brother's gonna be caught driving that silly looking car!" :monkies:
http://www.kiasoul.com/?cid=sem&ppc=y

Speaking of silly names, what marketing genuis thought that "Fatal1ty" is a good name for a line of computer parts?
:kilroy:
Slug Flyer
October 2nd, 2009, 12:09
Speaking of silly names, what marketing genuis thought that "Fatal1ty" is a good name for a line of computer parts?
:kilroy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal1ty
n4gix
October 2nd, 2009, 12:17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal1ty

Thanks for the link...

Apparently the irony of coupling a name which implies a propensity to die (fatality) to things that are suppose to not-fail such as computer parts has been missed...
Chacha
October 2nd, 2009, 12:27
What about kids name like Nevaeh (commonly pronounced nah-VAY-uh)... Heaven spelled backwards, and Jennifer 8 Lee?

There is so much in a name... You don't want to name your child Ikhabod? (meaning grace has left us)

And what about the domain names... companies like :
Powergen based in Italy
Who Represents
Experts Exchange
Mole Station Native Nursery

http://www.snopes.com/business/names/domains.asp :bump:
kilo delta
October 2nd, 2009, 13:17
One of the most famous has to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero ,not a great seller in Spanish speaking countries I'd imagine!

:monkies::icon_lol:
PRB
October 2nd, 2009, 13:19
This is not political correctness. “PC” doesn’t mean “not wanting to offend”, which is not a bad thing (no, really). The car naming thing is about selling cars. Business, not politics. So you people who think the above story is about political correctness would name your car “nogo”, and hope people would buy it. Let me know how that works out for ya…
OBIO
October 2nd, 2009, 20:23
The way the auto industry is going in the US at the moment, naming cars is getting easier and easier. If it keeps going the way it is, the only new car on the lot will be named "It's The Only Car On The Lot, So You Really Have No Choice."

OBIO
Willy
October 2nd, 2009, 21:09
This is not political correctness. “PC” doesn’t mean “not wanting to offend”, which is not a bad thing (no, really). The car naming thing is about selling cars. Business, not politics. So you people who think the above story is about political correctness would name your car “nogo”, and hope people would buy it. Let me know how that works out for ya…

There's an old story about the Chevy Nova didn't sell for beans in Spanish speaking countries because No va in Spanish means No go.
cheezyflier
October 3rd, 2009, 09:31
There's an old story about the Chevy Nova didn't sell for beans in Spanish speaking countries because No va in Spanish means No go.

ironic that the fastback nova with the 4 bolt main 350 was a runnin machine in it's day. i had a buddy whi did one up with edlebrock everything on the motor. heads, cam, intake, along with a nice ignition (i forget whos)
it was one of the quickest cars in the neighborhood.
Willy
October 3rd, 2009, 10:59
Cheezy, one of the first cars I ever souped up was an old 4 door 71 Nova that I took the straight six out of and put in a '60 Corvette 283 that I warmed over with headers, aluminum street intake, Holley double pumper and Accel ignition. It was the car that I learned to not loan your vehicle to your buddies on after one of mine blew that engine up street racing it one night when I wasn't there.

I've always fancied a '69-70 Nova SS 396 myself.