steve m
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What do you get if you cross a Renault Clio and a Ford Taurus ?
Thats was probably spelt wrong, or had some grammer, that the "grammer police have to have a moan at
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Sam_68
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| posted on 1/11/17 at 09:36 AM |
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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?
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trextr7monkey
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| posted on 1/11/17 at 10:22 PM |
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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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14016102@N00/ (cut and paste this dodgey link)
Our most recent pics are here:
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/trextr7monkey/
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nick205
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| posted on 2/11/17 at 02:00 PM |
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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
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