10 Worst Car Names of All Time

[Pat Carr]

I saw this on Foxnews.com: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/04/14/10-worst-car-names-all-time/?intcmp=features

Fairlady came in at #9. I always thought that was a strange name, but then I'm not Japanese.

[Walter Moore]

I saw the article, but dismissed it as uninformed.

[72 OJ]

I do not agree that the " FAIRLADY" is one of the worst name for a motor car,Mr. Beck our own member has a detail article on the nature of the name ..........

Edited April 16, 2012 by 72 OJ

[olzed]

They missed a few.

Hows about

Toyota Will Cypha.

Nissan Emina.

To name just a couple.

[Montezuma]

Lame article; my favorite worst name: The Nissan S-cargo van, because the van actually looked like a snail.

[tlorber]

I believe that the original name for GM's EV1 was the "Impact". Thought that was a horrible name for a car.

[alternativez]

Chevy Nova "doesn't go" well in Spanish, and it wasn't the "new star" they thought it would be. I love "iron"y. Sorry, but what linguist can resist a thread like "worst names"? Maybe that's why numbers work better. Wasn't a problem until I was getting a title and plating my '76 BMW 2002 in 2002. The BMV kept trying to tax me for a new 2002 BMW. I doubt BMW thought about that problem back in the 70's. Good day everyone!

[TomoHawk]

Camaro, El Camino, and Corvette are some other peculiar names GM had. There is no dictionary definition of "Camaro" but it is probably some kind of Spanish term for a wild horse, like Mustang would be. The same goes for El Camino. Corvette was borrowed from the fast naval ship, but doesn't mean anything to us Americans otherwise.

[72 OJ]

Gremlin, Matador, Fuego, Yugo,these names should have made this list......:ermm:

[AndysPlit]

......Whatever.

[sblake01]

Camaro, El Camino, and Corvette are some other peculiar names GM had. There is no dictionary definition of "Camaro" but it is probably some kind of Spanish term for a wild horse, like Mustang would be. The same goes for El Camino. Corvette was borrowed from the fast naval ship, but doesn't mean anything to us Americans otherwise.

I've heard the story of Corvette being name after a Italian warship but I've never heard of Camaro having any type of translation. Always though it was just a 'made up' word. El Camino tranlates 'the road' or 'the way' in Spanish IIRC.

[sblake01]

Chevy Nova "doesn't go" well in Spanish, and it wasn't the "new star" they thought it would be.

Not really true but always seems to come up in car name discussions. That would only work if the car was named 'No va' instead of 'Nova':

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

Edited April 17, 2012 by sblake01