Stupid Car Names
These days you can’t even walk out the door without seeing a car with a stupid name. More often than not, the car is weird-looking or just plain ugly. Car companies are running out of ideas for car names. If they weren’t, then would we have such cars as the Scion (Scion means “heir”), the Skyline, the Viper (a viper is a snake), or the Monte Carlo (to be fair, I’ve ridden in a Monte Carlo, and it’s actually quite nice, but the name, the name…)?
Why, next thing we know we’ll have the Toyota Book, the Chevrolet Refrigerator, and the Dodge Lizard! All of them will be flat and as far from aerodynamic as can be. They will all come in tacky colors like bright pink and lime green. Airbags will cost an extra $600, and brakes will be an extra $1000. And that’s on top of the $40,000 price tag!
Who names these cars? Really. Who thinks of these names? Who flips a dictionary to a random page and chooses the first word they see as the car name? Who gets their 6-year-old child to write down seven random letters for the car’s name? I’m dying to know.
This has been the first installment of the “Stupid” series. Tune in next week for the next volume: Stupid TV Shows!
This entry was posted on Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 1:07 pm and is filed under Stupid. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Comments are closed. Deal with it.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I don’t find that Skyline is such a bad name. I think Celica is silly as it sounds (in Australia, anyway) like “Silly Car” which I always laugh at.
I think a good car name is actually the “Tiburon” because in Spanish it means “Shark” and the car actually has distinctive features of a shark, so the name suits it.
I think the funniest car name I have heard is the “Ka”, because when it is advertised they say something along the lines of “The all new Ford car, ka” which just sounds ridiculous, repetitive, and lulsworthy as “ka ka” means “poo” in my native language.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:22 am
Ooh, I’m looking forward to the next installment. Only I bet I watch 1/2 the shows you put down… :S
October 5th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I think the most logical name for a car is “Smart Car”. Well, duh.
Oh, can you please make sure The Hills is in the next installment? Scratch that, everything on MTV.