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Lets not forget the Ssangyong Stavic.... Not only was it an awful name but my GOD was it ugly.  Literally looks like someone went to the design department "You need to make a 7 seater and you've got $5 to pull it off!" So they just jammed the boot of a hatch back up level with the roof and filled in the gaps with glass.
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The Door Frame posted:BRAT, Mighty Boy, Jimny I demand a General Sherman
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Ferremit posted:Lets not forget the Ssangyong Stavic.... Not only was it an awful name but my GOD was it ugly. Ssangyong are yet to make a car that's not offensive to the eyes, I find that somewhat amazing really considering that 99.9% of manufacturers have at least one car I don't hate.
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Ssangyong are coming up fast, though. Even just a couple of years ago I wouldn't have dreamed of buying a Korean car, but their range of cheap generics isn't half bad now. EDIT - just went looking for their earliest stuff to show how far they've come and, I've gotta say, I'm more likely to buy their first car than their current one.  Doesn't hurt that it was a licensed Jeep. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Oct 19, 2016 |
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Memento posted:The company claims that the name comes from the words Star (Astron/Sirius engines) and Arion (mythological very fast horse) and I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. The original advertising also supports this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB05NX00tWQ "ヘラクレスの愛馬、アリオンが今、星になって帰ってきた" (Herakuresu no aiba, arion ga ima, hoshi ni natte kaette kita) Hercules' horse Arion has now returned as a star.
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RillAkBea posted:The original advertising also supports this. I love how Bubble Era car ads are all so high-concept, and then as the cocaine ran out they just started putting American celebrities like Kyle MacLachlan into the ad interspersed with driving footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhc8EUUQtwk
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I love how Bubble Era car ads are all so high-concept, and then as the cocaine ran out they just started putting American celebrities like Kyle MacLachlan into the ad interspersed with driving footage. Holy crap, the Addams Family advertised the Odyssey  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8s_jAKwBDs Also a Z32 commercial in there, turns out all their commercials were the height of high concept poncery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQQoW3Ws_qw Edit: The first ad from this compilation is also pretty amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWYGTGZP6U "I am the new representative of German cars" it says as it flies over Neuschwanstein Castle. 
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Number_6 posted:Buick Skyhawk (is there any other kind of hawk?) Seahawk 
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The Door Frame posted:BRAT, Mighty Boy, Jimny It's actually named "the dirty POS" because one of my friends wrote that in the thick oil/dust sludge accretion on the tailgate as I drove out of a car show with it once. It's a well deserved name. I don't generally name my own cars, they get named when someone slanders them appropriately.
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spog posted:Mitsubishi Starion Not true.
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All of the Japanese and Italian car names are fantastic.
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kastein posted:It's actually named "the dirty POS" because one of my friends wrote that in the thick oil/dust sludge accretion on the tailgate as I drove out of a car show with it once. It's a well deserved name. That's also acceptable, but I would have preferred a historically inspired name my girlfriend is Legos posted:Sorry, these are all fantastic names. Ok, the Mighty Boy is kinda hilarious because it's a kei car pickup the size of my parent's dining room table, but Jimny and BRAT are terrible names. Jimny sounds like the broken English version of Jiminy Cricket, and no matter what the acronym is, naming your car after a petulant child isn't a great way to get it taken seriously
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The Door Frame posted:That's also acceptable, but I would have preferred a historically inspired name I thought it was Jimmy for the longest time (like the GMC), then I saw there was a letter n in there - 
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BOOTY-ADE posted:I'd pay good money for a Lincoln Hustler Cadillac Swank
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slidebite posted:Cadillac Swank Chevy Cheri
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Mighty Boy is the best car name, prove me wrong 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Mighty Boy is the best car name, prove me wrong  Honourable mention for idiotic names: The two wheel drive Fiat Sedici.
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This might be because I'm from Texas, but I never liked the name "New Yorker."
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I'm from NY and it's a pretty terrible name.
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Anybody mention LeBaron yet?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Mighty Boy is the best car name, prove me wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Diesel_Big_Thumb
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CommieGIR posted:I demand a General Sherman The GPS only works when going from Atlanta to Savana, it tears up any roads you drive on and has the tendency to set everything around it on fire when it parks!
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Cop Porn Popper posted:The GPS only works when going from Atlanta to Savana, it tears up any roads you drive on and has the tendency to set everything around it on fire when it parks! Worked fine going from Savannah to Richmond too.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Mighty Boy is the best car name, prove me wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Bongo
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Can someone confirm that Ford uses the Kuga name because it's phonetically similar to Cougar? 'Cause that's what wikipedia claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kuga#Name
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There's one of these at work, the name Mazda Bongo is made better by this version (95-05) being called 'Friendee'
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Jonny Nox posted:Can someone confirm that Ford uses the Kuga name because it's phonetically similar to Cougar? It sounds like how Michael Caine would say cougar.
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quote:With respect Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man that *you* don't fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a Ford Kuga. The bandit had been throwing them away. Checks out
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Geoj posted:
they also want your blindspot mirrors back too.
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Octopus Magic posted:they also want your blindspot mirrors back too. Blind spot mirrors rule
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Octopus Magic posted:they also want your blindspot mirrors back too. Oh sure, bitch about the stick on mirror instead of the massive A-pillars and tiny greenhouses that make those mirrors necessary
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If your mirrors are adjusted properly you don't need those.
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Geoj posted:
Blindspot mirror? On a Focus? Really?
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"best of shittycarmods"   Rest of the gallery here: http://imgur.com/gallery/WmZXh
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