Nearly 50 years after Ford fell out with Ferrari when the Ford buy out of Ferrari fell through and Ford bought the Lola GT and turned it into the
GT40 Ferrari crusher. Ford have objected to the new Ferrari F1 being called the F-150 an name already used by Ford for a Pick-truck. As a result
the new Ferrari F1car will be the "Ferrari 150° Italia".
Can you imagine the scenario; Hank and Bubba meet at in Squirrel Squat Creek General Store
Hank "Gee Bubba that new F-150 you bought looks a bit odd and it don't carry diddly squat.
Bubba " Ah know Hank and the owners handbook is in I-talian or ar-rabick or something and the sent out with worn out tyres. "
Hank "Ah was going to order a a new Fo-ard but am darm well going buy a Chevy, don't care if anybody calls me a Yankee turn coat."
[Edited on 5/3/11 by britishtrident]
Keep up mate. Top Gear did that joke (almost word for word) 3 weeks ago.
Apparently (in a similar vein) Porsche was going to call his to-be-iconic sports car the 901, but Peugeot had laid claim to all 3-digit numbers with a zero as the second one...
That's true, Peugeot own the rights to all three digit numbers with '0' in the middle.
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Originally posted by adithorp
Keep up mate. Top Gear did that joke (almost word for word) 3 weeks ago.
Ahhh... I see... the replacement name does put a whole new slant on it...
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Originally posted by britishtrident
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Originally posted by adithorp
Keep up mate. Top Gear did that joke (almost word for word) 3 weeks ago.
Funny cos taht Ferrari just changed the name to the Ferrari 150° Italia yesterday 4th of March