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Chevy Nova- No va means 'no go' in spanish .

Ford Focus. Focus on what ? It's utter fugliness ?

Ass-tek ... oops, they actually named it ' Aztek 'but c'mon. They must have realized the similarity would become apparent and come to mind immediately upon seeing the thing.Who spiked the crack-pipe with formaldehyde that day?

Oh, and the Yugo .

What car/truck names bite it , in your opinion ?

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I don't like any of the names that Kia has come up with.

“… They want names like Mustang and Cheetah. Vicious animal names” - Herb Powell (7F16 - Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? - The Simpsons)

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Stare At The Sun

I thought the eagle talon/mitsubishi eclipse were/are very cool names. also, number names, 3000gt, gt40 are really cool....

As far as shitty names go:

Town and country( its just silly)
the aztek
Baja
Bonneville sucks too imo

Mephisto2

Prajero...

It means WANKER in Spanish apparently...

Mr Mephisto

platypus

Volkswagon Touareg.

Supposedly named for a tribal people from west Africa. The word "tuareg" is Arabic, meaning "abandoned by the gods."

Nice name for a car.

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I think dae-woo makes some pretty bad car names

unfortunately, yahoo took them off their auto list, so I cant name them

I think nubira was one..

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striderkevin

The name Kia sucks in itself, Daewoo and Ford's 'Focus' suck as well.

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castex

Mitsubishi's Carisma - the name fits the car like an extremely poor-fitting glove. On the wrong hand.

Jerpitcher

the Volkswagon "Thing" that came out in the 60s or 70s

FastShark85

Renault's LeCar.

LeCrap.

MSD

The Chevy Nova thing is an urban legend, I'm just too damn lazy to move my hand to the mouse and pull up Snopes.

Kia Sephia - Don't make the names rhyme, it's just lame.
Kia Sportage - Reminds me too much of "Shrinkage" and that's not a fun thought.

I want to splice some Mazda nameplates sometime and see how long it takes a friend to realize he's driving the new and more evil than ever before Mazda 666

acpower

as popular as these two cars are... i'd have to say the vw bug and beetle... why name cars after insects??

johnnymysto

Volkswagen Rabbit ... there's power for ya.

Kia Sephia ... sounds like the mom from the Golden Girls.

Ford Aspire ... as in, I aspire to have a better car one day

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FastShark85

Ford Festiva...aka the Ford "Fajita".

Merkur "XR4TI".....that's a name????

The Gremlin....makers must have known it would have problems

novadude

The original Volkswagen was never called "The Bug" or "The Beetle". It was simply the Type I 1600. It wasn't until 1998 when VW took a dump and called it "The New Beetle" that it's official name was anything of an insect.

novadude

Oh, and the Nova "it doesn't go" thing is an urban legend. It would be just as akward to say "it doesn't go" in Spanish as it is in English. And the Nova actually sold very well in Mexico.

Scorps

well some of the Nova's didn't go

Halx

Not to bash the awesome car, but something about "Honda Prelude" leads you to believe there is something better on the horizon

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Stare At The Sun

^ha, never thought of it that way...

Rodney

AMC Gremlin -- a gremlin a sort of demon, but is also an old aviator's term for a troublesome mechanical foulup -- who'd name a car after that?

Fun fact: for reasons entirely innocent, I once had a meet with Anton LaVey, founder of the latter day Church of Satan. And he arrived in -- you guessed it -- a Gremlin.

When I was down in Costa Rica, I saw a monster Hyundai SUV that they don't market in the states, called The Galloper. I though that name pretty much sucked.

pezking4

That's the one I was gonna add. Always made me wonder why they named it that.

mystic511

Haha, well, technically, they did "prelude" to something. The s2000! The prelude was discontinued shortly after the release of that 240 hp rear wheel 4 cylinder spyder.

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Atomic Pinkie

Boxster...when you make a square car...lets not make it too obvious

Civic, when the hell do they do a civil service? WWWWWWWWHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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wondash

I believe that Boxster is a combination of roadster and boxer (in reference to its boxer engine). And I'm not sure that I'd consider the Porsche Boxster a 'square' car.

wondash

Fajita; LOL!

Now I can't get that dam jingle out of my head, "It'ssss... A Festiva"

GSRIDER

I hate all the SUV names, explorer, expedition... they all seem to incite this aura of "look at me, I'm on a great adventure" but you're not. Most are going to the office and soccer practice.

They should name them what they are. "Cock enhancer", "mom cab w/ balls", "my other auto is a minivan".

seriously

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tj2001cobra

I've never liked Neons. Everytime I hear the name, I think of that dumb commecial where all it said was "Hi."

Also, the Brat (cant remember who made it) was stupid.

dy156

I've always thought the names escape, explorer,expedition, and excursion went with the wrong vehicle. Escape makes me think of an escape pod -small, I can buy that. But I think of an excursion as a little side trip that is far less of a big deal than a whole expedition to go somewhere.

Another car name observation:
BMW 3 series -about $30K
5 series -50K
7 series 70K about
couldn't they come up with something better?

Also, I miss the Integra, Legend and Vigor. Much better than 3.2TL, etc...

Rodney

I also think the Toyota Tundra is a stupid name. Tundra is a treeless frozen wasteland in the winter, a mucky swamp in the summer with swarms of biting insects that could kill a naked man in 30 minutes or less. So just how does this equate with a pleasurable driving experience. Man, how 'bout the Toyota Wasteland? The Toyota Quicksand? The Toyota Sinkhole?

bleet

no mention for the ford probe? what? worst name in history.

bend over, and take this ford probe.

platypus

Made by Subaru. F'ing deathmobile for rear passengers. Had those two plastic seats with hand grips facing backwards in the bed.

Always thought the Dodge Avenger had a dopey name. Avenge what? And must you wear a bowler and carry a brolly to drive it?

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avenge what?

well that ford fiesta just beat you off the line! d'oh!

snoop

The Mitsi Starrion was a piss weak attempt to cash in on car names such as the all american musclecar the MUSTANG . . unfortunately the asians (no disrespect intended) had problems vocalising Stallion and the name became Starrion before it was released . . . these were quite common two door turbo's in OZ in the mid to late 80's

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platypus

Yeah, the question should really be, "Avenge how?".

I had one of these in the mid 80's. Frickin' pocket rocket. Smokin' fast. Never knew or even thought of the Starion/Stallion name thing.

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castex

Citroën's Picasso. Half the late artist's family battled hard to stop it happening, but they lost. With pretty tragic consequences:

FastShark85

What about the "Suzuki Sidekick".

I guess they were describing the action someone needed to take with their leg to knock the thing over.

Scorps

LMAO

sportsrule101

probe, prelude, gmc-saffarie

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Snoogans

I think Honda made a car a few years ago named "Fitta", wich in Swedish means "Pussy". Can you imagine how many utterly stupid puns/jokes there would have been if they released it here... I'd kill to own one though...

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Isuzu Amigo. I guess this would make sense if you had a friend who had a limp, was partially blind in one eye, and was ready to keel over.