Vehicle name meanings
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Scion
SY-ən
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Old French, 13th century
1
A young shoot or twig of a plant, especially one cut for grafting or rooting.
2
A descendant of a notable family.
Examples of Scion in a sentence
"The Bradford pear had several scions on the lower branches."
"Michael was considered the most successful scion of the family."
Scion
SY-ən
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Old French, 13th century
1
A young shoot or twig of a plant, especially one cut for grafting or rooting.
2
A descendant of a notable family.
Examples of Scion in a sentence
"The Bradford pear had several scions on the lower branches."
"Michael was considered the most successful scion of the family."
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Ford
Pinto
pinto'
pinto
in American English
(ˈpɪntoʊ)
US
ADJECTIVE
1. marked with patches of white and black or another dark color; piebald or skewbald
NOUN
Word forms: plural ˈpintos
2. a pinto horse or pony
3. pinto bean
4. A compact car made by Ford that could erupt into a fireball when struck from the rear.
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NOVA: (retro-coinage) An acronym for a line of compact GM automobile models which ultimately included: Chevy Nova, Oldsmobile Omega, Pontiac Ventura, and Buick Apollo.
NOVA also was reputed to carry the unfortunate connotation, in Spanish, of Does not go.
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Edsel: Named for one of Henry Ford's sons.
see also: The car with the horse collar.
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Countach: A mild epithet (as Road & Track described it at the time) in Piedmontese.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_CountachMarcello Gandini, the designer of the Countach, explained the origin of the name:
When we made cars for the car shows, we worked at night and we were all tired, so we would joke around to keep our morale up. There was a profiler working with us who made the locks. He was two meters tall with two enormous hands, and he performed all the little jobs. He spoke almost only Piedmontese, didn’t even speak Italian. Piedmontese is much different from Italian and sounds like French. One of his most frequent exclamations was ‘countach’, which literally means plague, contagion, and is actually used more to express amazement or even admiration, like ‘goodness’. He had this habit.
When we were working at night, to keep our morale up, there was a jousting spirit, so I said we could call it Countach, just as a joke, to say an exaggerated quip, without any conviction. There nearby was Bob Wallace, who assembled the mechanics—we always made the cars operational. At that time you could even roll into the car shows with the car running, which was marvelous.
So jokingly I asked Bob Wallace how it sounded to an Anglo-Saxon ear. He said it in his own way, strangely. It worked. We immediately came up with the writing and stuck it on. But maybe the real suggestion was the idea of one of my co-workers, a young man who said let’s call it that. That is how the name was coined. This is the only true story behind this word.
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Jeep: Possibly named for the character Eugene the Jeep from Popeye, which predated the origin of that ultimately ubiquitous military General Purpose (GP) vehicle.
https://www.cjponyparts.com/resources/jeep-name-origins
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My cars: Acura TSX, TSX stands for Toronto Stock Exchange 😂
Honda Civic
civ·ic
/ˈsivik/
adjective
relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
Village Idiot of Club Polk -
mhardy6647 wrote: »BMC (BLMC) Mini:
Driven by a hoe dressed to the 9s, one would presume. -
My cars: Acura TSX, TSX stands for Toronto Stock Exchange 😂
Honda Civic
civ·ic
/ˈsivik/
adjective
relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal.
The Civic was also, IIRC, named to reflect Honda's CVCC* engine design of the time (or maybe vice versa -- it's been a few years now
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* Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (Japanese: 複合渦流調整燃焼方式) from Wiki-p.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »BMC (BLMC) Mini:
Driven by a hoe dressed to the 9s, one would presume.
I didn't even notice the license (numbers) plate.
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Monteverdi Hai.
Hai = shark.
(cf. German Haifisch)
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Then again, there was Sbarro -- although the marque was, apparently, not named for the shopping mall pizza chain.
Every so often, one sees an automobile design and one thought fairly leaps to mind: Those guys musta been doin cocaine.
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Volkswagen Thing.
'nuff said
The "Thing" was fairly faithful reboot of the WWII VW Kübelwagen ("bucket [seat] car", per Wiki-p).
I think there may have been a bit of sensitivity to making too much of a connection to 1940s German vehicles, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Kübelwagen
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FIAT Panda
Named for the Asian marsupial which, famously, eats, shoots, and leaves.
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Another pretty good automobile name: Maserati's Mistral.
Named for a wind.
Not a mistrial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_(wind) -
oh, oh, OH!
Howzabout the Forward Control Jeep?!
Named for having the controls way, way forward (as in, ahead of the front wheels), a small cab-over-engine design. The FC Jeep presaged the first generation of US utility vans of the 60s (the Ford Econoline and its Chevy and Dodge'm 'cousins').
My father had a '66 Econoline, Acadian Blue, for his TV repair business for many, many years. It ended its earthly life serving, in essence, as a garden shed.
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My dog Chester ( my avatar) has more than 114 foot pounds of torque.... just sayin
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My dog Chester ( my avatar) has more than 114 foot pounds of torque.... just sayin
Yeah, but does Chester have "up front" styling?
PS I am rollin' on the floor here vis-a-vis your post.
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Does Chester have "up front" styling?
OF COURSE ! His underbite will wreck your day and his tail will wag the whole time -
mhardy6647 wrote: »Another pretty good automobile name: Maserati's Mistral.
Named for a wind.
Not a mistrial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_(wind)
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When I worked at Lockheed, we had a junior engineer that would call Frigates, Frickits. We thought he was just being precocious until the guy wrote an entire project plan for a fire control system update on the "Guided Missile Frickits Program".
That was an awkward PEO TSC presentation.
To keep in theme with the thread:
Maverick
A maverick is an animal, usually a form of cattle, that does not carry a brand.
It is a word also used to describe a person who acts free from constraints or organizational guidelines.
A mustang is by definition a maverick horse.
Ford now has two Mavericks in it's history. The original one like this '73 Grabber:
And this new one from 2022 which is a FWD/AWD "mini truck" based on the Focus/Escape:
Side note, while the first car I ever rode in was my dad's '77 F150, the first car I rode in regularly was my mom's '73 Maverick Grabber that was white/orange on cream with with a 302. She'd hand all the Mustang guys their butts on a silver platter with a pair of baby seats in the back.
Everybody thinks it's my dad or my uncle who gave me my car problem.
It was really my mom and her dominance of the stoplight drags.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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GM = got money? Cause you're going to need some to fix it all the common issues that crop up. Been a lot happier since I stopped buying them.
