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Kia Stolic - what a rubbish name...
craigdiver - 30/10/17 at 10:01 PM

Kia Stolic, sounds like it is a symptom of hypertension.

I guess it is a car manufacturers nightmare trying to come up with a name that works across many different languages but this one, in my opinion, sounds s#!t.

Anybody think of any worse car model names?

ste - 30/10/17 at 11:16 PM

Toyota Estima Lucida G Luxury Joyful Canopy

Kia Pro_cee'd GT

Mazda Bongo Friendee

Ferrari LaFerrari

Bentley Bentayga


[Edited on 30/10/17 by ste]

gremlin1234 - 30/10/17 at 11:56 PM

so many were named the same as 'top shelf' magazines
mini mayfair
fiesta
escort

Benzine - 31/10/17 at 12:12 AM

There was a kit car, I'm guessing 5+ years ago that was going to be named something absolutely hilarious. After some feedback it got changed. Trouble is I can't remember what it was going to be called Anyone remember?

JC - 31/10/17 at 06:29 AM

It would be much worse if it was actually called the Kia Stonic.........oh....hang on....

Sam_68 - 31/10/17 at 09:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
There was a kit car, I'm guessing 5+ years ago that was going to be named something absolutely hilarious. After some feedback it got changed. Trouble is I can't remember what it was going to be called Anyone remember?


You're not thinking of the Sylva Shindig (which became the J15, when sanity prevailed), perhaps?

nick205 - 31/10/17 at 09:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by ste
Toyota Estima Lucida G Luxury Joyful Canopy

Kia Pro_cee'd GT

Mazda Bongo Friendee

Ferrari LaFerrari

Bentley Bentayga


[Edited on 30/10/17 by ste]




Bentley - "Bentayga".....to me sounds positively appalling!

Fortunately I've not seen one on the road, but photos I have seen of portray another manufacturer flailing along the "SUV" route they all seem to be going down.


Stick with numbers for model designations - much simpler and less language cumbersome.

[Edited on 31/10/17 by nick205]

Charlie C - 31/10/17 at 10:49 AM

mitsubishi - starion, i herd once that it should have been called the stallion but the spelling was lost in translation
Ford - Probe, all the inspiring words in the world ford picked probe
Nissan - Fairlady, built like brick poo houses and drive by hairy taxi drivers nothing fair or lady like about them.
Nissan - Sunny, translated from Pulsar which sound much better.

Slater - 31/10/17 at 11:24 AM

Ford Ka

I wonder how long it took them to come up with that?

joneh - 31/10/17 at 11:28 AM

The Vauxhall Nova was a Corsa in Spain as No Va means No Go in Spanish.

craigdiver - 31/10/17 at 11:50 AM

quote:
Originally posted by gremlin1234
so many were named the same as 'top shelf' magazines
mini mayfair
fiesta
escort


I would drive a Kia Razzle or Ford Big Jugs Monthly ;-)

craigdiver - 31/10/17 at 11:54 AM

quote:
Originally posted by ste
Toyota Estima Lucida G Luxury Joyful Canopy

Kia Pro_cee'd GT

Mazda Bongo Friendee

Ferrari LaFerrari

Bentley Bentayga


[Edited on 30/10/17 by ste]


Disagree with La Ferrari, was going to say you could call a Ferrari anything and it would sound cool, however, Bentley have proven that wrong with the 'Bentayga' (which don't look good at all - seen a couple driving around and wondered what they were thinking).

Dick Axtell - 31/10/17 at 12:00 PM

quote:
Originally posted by gremlin1234
so many were named the same as 'top shelf' magazines

Joyful Canopy.....?? Really?? Never seen that one.

David Jenkins - 31/10/17 at 02:47 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
There was a kit car, I'm guessing 5+ years ago that was going to be named something absolutely hilarious. After some feedback it got changed. Trouble is I can't remember what it was going to be called Anyone remember?


Not thinking of the Marlin 5exi are you? LINKY

coozer - 31/10/17 at 03:01 PM

Should have called it the Kia Chronic

Maybe a BMW Over40s would do me

Or, a Suzuki Score

Sam_68 - 31/10/17 at 03:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Not thinking of the Marlin 5exi are you?


That didn't get changed, though?!

The name alone would put me off ever buying one, though, certainly.

"That's a nice little car, what is it?" >cringe<

Angel Acevedo - 31/10/17 at 03:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Slater
Ford Ka

I wonder how long it took them to come up with that?



If you had two....

You´d have Ka Ka....
(Spanish for 5#1t....)

Slater - 31/10/17 at 03:56 PM

Toyota MR2

Translates to sh1t in French

Benzine - 31/10/17 at 04:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Sam_68

You're not thinking of the Sylva Shindig (which became the J15, when sanity prevailed), perhaps?


Yeah that's the one

nick205 - 31/10/17 at 05:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by craigdiver
quote:
Originally posted by ste
Toyota Estima Lucida G Luxury Joyful Canopy

Kia Pro_cee'd GT

Mazda Bongo Friendee

Ferrari LaFerrari

Bentley Bentayga


[Edited on 30/10/17 by ste]


Disagree with La Ferrari, was going to say you could call a Ferrari anything and it would sound cool, however, Bentley have proven that wrong with the 'Bentayga' (which don't look good at all - seen a couple driving around and wondered what they were thinking).



Bentley were thinking - other companies are selling this type of thing so we'd better have a go to!

No doubt the SUV trend will move on to something else and all the manufacturers will want a go at that too

morcus - 31/10/17 at 07:01 PM

is Ferrari LaFerrari any worse than Ferrari Enzo Ferrari (as it was actually called even if everyone just called it the enzo). Its an even worse Name when translate it to English where it would be the Henry Smith.

02GF74 - 31/10/17 at 08:39 PM

37 years on, they still haven't stopped laughing at the Norton Wankel.

ReMan - 31/10/17 at 08:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
There was a kit car, I'm guessing 5+ years ago that was going to be named something absolutely hilarious. After some feedback it got changed. Trouble is I can't remember what it was going to be called Anyone remember?

Caterham Featherlight?

Dingz - 31/10/17 at 10:02 PM

Nissan Cedric?
There nearly was a Vauxhall Vixen but it was a bit unpleasant in german apparently.

trextr7monkey - 1/11/17 at 07:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
There was a kit car, I'm guessing 5+ years ago that was going to be named something absolutely hilarious. After some feedback it got changed. Trouble is I can't remember what it was going to be called Anyone remember?

Caterham Featherlight?


The Norton Rotary as people like to call it is alive and doing rather well in classic bike racing for anyone with half an interest. Check out WhizzNorton racing on websisite and Facebook some brilliant video footage on TT course turn the sound up!!
On the subject of silly names doesn’t Pinto as in the world famous Ford engine mean little dick to about a third of the world who communicate in Spanish?
Where in the job spec at Ford did it say “Engineer- good sense of humour required? “
Atb
Mike

steve m - 1/11/17 at 08:21 AM

What do you get if you cross a Renault Clio and a Ford Taurus ?

Sam_68 - 1/11/17 at 09:36 AM

quote:

On the subject of silly names doesn’t Pinto as in the world famous Ford engine mean little dick to about a third of the world who communicate in Spanish?

The name of the engine derives from the name of the US car model it was fitted in, of course, and I was under the impression that the name means 'painted' in Spanish and Portuguese... its the name of a two-coloured horse (think the classic brown and white patched horses you'd see in cowboy movies), hence fitted with the Mustang in Ford's naming strategy.

You'd have thought there would be enough Latin Americans in the US to make them aware it was a problem if there was another meaning?

trextr7monkey - 1/11/17 at 10:22 PM

Ha! Knew I’d seen it some where see last bit of this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3208501.stm

Then again you can’t believe everything you read on the internet!!
Atb
Mike

nick205 - 2/11/17 at 02:00 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Sam_68
quote:

On the subject of silly names doesn’t Pinto as in the world famous Ford engine mean little dick to about a third of the world who communicate in Spanish?

The name of the engine derives from the name of the US car model it was fitted in, of course, and I was under the impression that the name means 'painted' in Spanish and Portuguese... its the name of a two-coloured horse (think the classic brown and white patched horses you'd see in cowboy movies), hence fitted with the Mustang in Ford's naming strategy.

You'd have thought there would be enough Latin Americans in the US to make them aware it was a problem if there was another meaning?



I thought the same "Pinto" referred to type of horse!

Given a Pinto engines many horses perhaps not the most apt of names for it