Naming cars

15 Aug 2005

The makers of the Pajero 4x4 (forget the manufacturer, is it Nissan? Never mind.....) didn't realised that in Spanish "Pajero" means wanker. :shock: :shock: :shock:
When they put it on the market in Spain the Spanish wouldn't buy it, only the Costa Brits. :wanker: :wanker: :wanker:
The penny dropped in the end and they had to rename it,for the Spanish market, but I'm buggered if I can remember what they called it. redface

ops:
Does anyone drive a wanker in this country and does anyone know of any similar gaffes? dunno

:uhoh:

15 Aug 2005

Quote by EagerSlut
Does anyone drive a wanker in this country and does anyone know of any similar gaffes?

Man City were going to name one of the stands at their new ground after one of their former players, Colin Bell.
Then they realised it would be known as The Bell End!! confused

:? :? :? lol

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15 Aug 2005

:laughabove: :laughabove: :laughabove: :laughabove:
(The old ones really are the worst.. Its a tradition or an old charter or something)

15 Aug 2005

When I read the title I thought it was going to be about the pet names people have for their cars... as it isn't and it is a serious topic, I'm going to ignore it totally
lol

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Well, OK.... not totally :lol:
My friend names his cars... he had a Rover called Cyril, and a landrover called Mabel... and when I was a kid I used to go camping in a camper van called Bertha :rotflmao:

15 Aug 2005

Quote by Sgt Bilko
Does anyone drive a wanker in this country and does anyone know of any similar gaffes?

Man City were going to name one of the stands at their new ground after one of their former players, Colin Bell.
Then they realised it would be known as The Bell End!! confused

:? :? :? lol

:lol: :lol:Man utd were told they couldnt use the City of Manchester coat of arms in there badge as they were not officially in Manchester flipa

so they stole the badge and nick name from Salford RLC ,,,,a red devil rolleyes

:roll: :lol: :lol: wink

15 Aug 2005

My car is called 'Cristina' (after my ex wife) coz it always let's me down, never does what it's told and I'm forever throwing money at it.
Time I traded it in for a new stylish model and call it Sarah (I know I know - Can't help it though .. hehehe)

15 Aug 2005

Seeing as how we're straying a little off (specific) topic (no problema) I'll go with the flow......................................ok..........................erm.............Ah! Ha! :!: :!:
I used to drive a truck that had a very definite female persona. She was ...........no no :uhoh: :uhoh: not going there........... smackbottom

Anyway, suffice to say she was a definite 'she'. I will go so far as to say that she handled like a lady and I was proud of her. :love: :love: :love:
Now I drive a definitely testosterone fuelled growling, hissing macho brute that scares the shit outta little old ladies redface

ops: has 4 over 4 gears and a splitter (so 16 forward gears), hisses and spits air when you dip the clutch, and generally scares the crap outta everyone who's smaller than me on the road! :grin: :grin: :bounce: !
Will that do? Can I hijack my own thread? :shock: :shock: :shock:
Oh go on then............... wink

:wink:

15 Aug 2005

Quote by EagerSlut
Seeing as how we're straying a little off (specific) topic (no problema) I'll go with the flow......................................ok..........................erm.............Ah! Ha! :!: :!:
I used to drive a truck that had a very definite female persona. She was ...........no no :uhoh: :uhoh: not going there...........
Anyway, suffice to say she was a definite 'she'. I will go so far as to say that she handled like a lady and I was proud of her. :love: :love: :love:
Now I drive a definitely testosterone fuelled growling, hissing macho brute that scares the shit outta little old ladies ops: has 4 over 4 gears and a splitter (so 16 forward gears), hisses and spits air when you dip the clutch, and generally scares the crap outta everyone who's smaller than me on the road! :grin: :grin: :bounce: !
Will that do? Can I hijack my own thread? :shock: :shock: :shock:
Oh go on then............... :wink:

Far too technical... why didn't ya just say you have a 'Granny Killer' .... much easier.

16 Aug 2005

Quote by Wishmaster
My car is called 'Cristina' (after my ex wife) coz it always let's me down, never does what it's told and I'm forever throwing money at it.
Time I traded it in for a new stylish model and call it Sarah (I know I know - Can't help it though .. hehehe)

How many miles do I do to the gallon???
Have I had a full service recently??? and was the person carring out the service full qualified to do so? lol

And further more did I enjoy it? :twisted: :twisted:

16 Aug 2005

Since it's been hijacked already....
When I lived abroad, I didn't actually drive a wanker (though I lived with one for a while) - but there, "um" meant "c*nt" ...
So all day long I was unknowingly offending everyone I met saying "um, how are you" or "Please may I have a kilo of - um ...."
redface

16 Aug 2005

my car is called
biatch
it never parks itself, it tends to break down on me, it never drives in straigt line.
MikeC

16 Aug 2005

I had a lovely white Ford Orion many years ago that I nicknamed Freddie Orgasm. :giggle:

16 Aug 2005

There was a similar problem in france with the toyota MR2 when it first came out.
As the close translation in french is Enmerdeur, which basically means a shit stirrir or troublemaker.!!
obviously this became a problem, so they had a re-think, delayed the release by a year, then decided it would be called the.........MR2 (with english pronounciation.
Cost toyota a lot of money for the delay!.
Spuds, the lot of them!.....if they hadn't been sitting drinking wine all day instead of working and striking all the time, they would of come up with that idea a lot sooner! rolleyes

ooooohhhh and in my job I get to play with "Glenda" among many others :P , but's she's my favourite, 15 years old, equivalent of 235,000 bhp, and makes a lot of noise and you really don't want to get in her way :twisted: , fancy a tug of war ES :P ?
oh, that really could be taken the wrong way !
rotflmao

16 Aug 2005

i know its off the subject abit but on saturday mr B went to our car and someone had broken into it and sawn the stearing wheel off!! :cry: :shock: lol

you have to laugh or u'd cry!!!

16 Aug 2005

Quote by bailiffs
i know its off the subject abit but on saturday mr B went to our car and someone had broken into it and sawn the stearing wheel off!! :cry: :shock: you have to laugh or u'd cry!!!

Bit harsh

,,,,,,,,,mind you maybe it's the new craze among the crims & wrappers,,,,,,,,,instead of a VW or merc Badge, you now hove the whole steering wheel :shock:

16 Aug 2005

Quote by Colts23
i know its off the subject abit but on saturday mr B went to our car and someone had broken into it and sawn the stearing wheel off!! :cry: :shock: you have to laugh or u'd cry!!!

Bit harsh

,,,,,,,,,mind you maybe it's the new craze among the crims & wrappers,,,,,,,,,instead of a VW or merc Badge, you now hove the whole steering wheel :shock:
i wouldnt mind..........i have a new stearing wheel in the garage but the fecking bar stewards saw'd the column aswell :cry: dont ask!!!
here it is

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:
colin took a picture because he couldnt believe it!!

16 Aug 2005

Quote by bailiffs
i know its off the subject abit but on saturday mr B went to our car and someone had broken into it and sawn the stearing wheel off!! :cry: :shock: you have to laugh or u'd cry!!!

Thats quite scary, I had a dream the other night that my car had been broken in to, and they'd ripped out the dashboard and sawn off the steering wheel confused

Theres a wanker just down the road from me :P

16 Aug 2005

I name every car I have ever owned......
Current car is called Florence .............. previous car was called Hitler !
I have no idea how I choose the names somehow they seem to pick themselves
U all think I am a lunatic now........ don't you ?
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

16 Aug 2005

I havn't maned a car for a while now because i just havnt kept them long enough to feel thay had any personality. firstly i had the terracorra terror which was a cortina estate - in orange. and then pennence the panda. now i have a little 14 year old lotus elan in green. if certainly has personality, but i can't think of a name that fits - any suggestions?
How about that for a threadjack?

16 Aug 2005

with refernce to the original post
i thik the word vauxhall nova translated into spanish something like
pile of shit hence over there they were called opel corsa
i drive one but i wouldnt call it a pile of shit more like
a single turd

16 Aug 2005

My mate - who also does all the mechanical work on my car - had started going out with his gf, and as she had a chevette, whenever it broke, he'd fix it, he said. Got to be such a common occurrence he renamed it "The Shove-it".
Nothing as amusing as above is remotely connected to me - but my cavvy's reg looks like KISS, MMM. ( Yes, I know, another hi-jack )

16 Aug 2005

Quote by derekthemelongod
with refernce to the original post
i thik the word vauxhall nova translated into spanish something like
pile of shit hence over there they were called opel corsa
i drive one but i wouldnt call it a pile of shit more like
a single turd

'Pile of shit' in Spanish would translate as "Un monton de mierda" wink

16 Aug 2005

Quote by derekthemelongod
with refernce to the original post
i thik the word vauxhall nova translated into spanish something like
pile of shit hence over there they were called opel corsa
i drive one but i wouldnt call it a pile of shit more like
a single turd

IIRC, the problem with the Nova was that it's name could be roughly translated as "won't go".
I'm not sure if that was better or worse than Triumph's efforts to market the Acclaim in post-war West Germany (for non-German speakers the literal translation of Triumph Acclaim is/could be (my German's not good enough to say whether it's the best translation) 'Seig Heil').