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      04-23-2021, 05:35 PM   #45
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Ford Probe. Gives me a boner every time I hear that name.

But seriously, enjoy car names before they’re reduced to numbers and letters like some calculator.

Presenting the all new Mercedes EQS 350 AWD AMG GT 48v S
You forgot the S. Please be more accurate with your descriptions in the future.
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You forgot the S. Please be more accurate with your descriptions in the future.
Ah yes, the EQSs. The best or nothing.
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Buick LaCrosse....at least for the Canadians in Quebec

"That's because LaCrosse is slang in Quebec for pleasuring yourself."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gm-faces-car...ndrum-1.775246
Would work well with selling the Mitsubishi Pajero in Spanish speaking countries
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Haha, I was going to mention that
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Buick LaCrosse....at least for the Canadians in Quebec

"That's because LaCrosse is slang in Quebec for pleasuring yourself."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gm-faces-car...ndrum-1.775246
Would work well with selling the Mitsubishi Pajero in Spanish speaking countries
And then apparently etron, which is close to Audi's E-Tron, in France, is the word for 💩
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In the UK it became the 'fox', and now the 'up'. I still refer to them as lupos, as do a number of folk I know.
Yes I know. Although I think the fox was quite a bit bigger (longer). And made in brazil.
So the fox was imo more of an successor pricewise than sizewise. The fox also shared it platform with the polo, wheras the lupo and Up have their own tiny platform (lupo's platform was shared with the seat arosa and the Up's platform is of course shared with the citygo and Mii)

I also think the Lupo is the coolest one, certainly looking at the era it was sold in. Also back then available with tiny turbodiesels.
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Ah, I wasn't aware of the fox differences. Lupo FTW
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Pretty good list so far. I'll add that a lot of the JDM nameplates or performance variants have/had pretty cool names. Some favorites:
Honda ____ Type R
Prince/Nissan Skyline / Skyline GT-R
Nissan Fairlady Z
Toyota Century

Nearly every Italian name rolls off the tongue.
They can name something "Spazzatura" (English: Garbage) and it would still sound cool to non-Italian speakers.
But just the fact that there's a word for "a stable of race horses" makes Scuderia in the 430 Scuderia a favorite out of the Italian car names.

And of course, it's hard to dismiss the crowd favorites BMW M1, M3, M5, M6- a letter M for Motorsport and a number for the Series designation, simple, no fluff, looks great as a badge and even sounds kind of masculine, lots of history & pedigree too.
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Here are some I can think of. Some may have already been mentioned:

Dodge Viper
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Challenger/Charger
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Of course the M3/4/5.
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Taycan. I hate EV’s, but this one could sway me.
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Taycan. I hate EV’s, but this one could sway me.
I like the new Audi that is debuting soon. Sooooooo sleeeeeeeeeek!
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I like the new Audi that is debuting soon. Sooooooo sleeeeeeeeeek!
I agree. That may interest me as well once I see it.
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But just the fact that there's a word for "a stable of race horses" makes Scuderia in the 430 Scuderia a favorite out of the Italian car names.
It's strange that english doesn't have a word for that as both dutch and german (the other west germanic sisterlanguages to english) both have a word for that.
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But just the fact that there's a word for "a stable of race horses" makes Scuderia in the 430 Scuderia a favorite out of the Italian car names.
It's strange that english doesn't have a word for that as both dutch and german (the other west germanic sisterlanguages to english) both have a word for that.
That's interesting.
What are the Dutch & German equivalents?

I'm wondering if there might be an old, dated, or archaic cognate in English that exists but is unused or means something entirely different.
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