Even stupider car names

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Drago

Legendary Member
Over the years there have been some crackers of daft car names, but it seems the last few months has seen manufacturers raising the game.

For example...

The SEAT Arona = Aroma.

The Kia Stonic = Colonic.

These could be the best cars in the World, but saddling them with names that reminds buyers of poo is hardly the best marketing move.
 

Tin Pot

Guru
Pinto is an all time winner though. Meaning small willy in some countries.
 

AndyRM

XOXO
Location
North Shields
Saw an advert for the Stonic earlier, not sure I've ever laughed at the name of a car before.

Portmanteau of "speedy" and "tonic" apparently.
 

Tin Pot

Guru
Form 2003 :smile:

Bbc said:
Buick 'masturbation' car renamed
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The Buick LaCrosse will launch next year
Red-faced officials at General Motors in Canada have been forced to think of a new name for their latest model after discovering it was a slang word for masturbation.
GM officials said they had been unaware that LaCrosse was a term for self-gratification among teenagers in French-speaking Quebec.

They are now working on a new name for the LaCrosse in Canada. The car will go on sale next year to replace the Buick Regal.



More recently, Mitsubishi had to change the name of its Pajero model in Spanish speaking countries, where the word is a slang term for "masturbator".

While Toyota's Fiera proved controversial in Puerto Rico, where fiera translated to "ugly old woman".

And Ford didn't have the reception it expected in Brazil when their Pinto car flopped.

They then discovered that in Brazilian Portuguese slang, pinto means "small penis".
 

Ian H

Ancient randonneur
It got complicated when cars became worldwide products and their names had to be innocuous is all languages. Why they didn't just stick to numbers, I don't know.
 
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Beebo

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Ford Probe.
 
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