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Re: Place related car names

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:25 pm
by mercrocker
No worries, I think Vauxhall probably cocked with it to fit their fetish for names ending in ......A but it is right in spirit and I would imagine designed to compete with "Capri"

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:29 pm
by mercrocker
Singer Porlock

I suppose it conveyed the ability to climb massive hills....

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:10 pm
by treehugger
Morriss marina? Marinas are places...

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:16 pm
by mercrocker
Yeah but they were named after the bird in Stingray.

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:48 pm
by mercrocker
Right, here's an obscure one. Only thought of it when I remembered I had the boot script from one in my shed hoard....

Chevrolet Constantia.

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:45 am
by NergleFuttocks
Seat Malaga
Yugo Florida
Beijing Jeep
Seat Ibiza
Seat Toledo
Seat Rondo
Seat Altea
Seat Léon
Seat Marbella
Seat Cordóba
Seat Alhambra
There is probably a village in Spain called 1430!!

Fuck this - every Seat except Fura, Panda, Terra, Exeo and Mii.

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:54 am
by NergleFuttocks
Alfa Montreal
FSO Caro (it’s in Michigan)
Talbot Tagora (it’s in U-P, India)

It may be an equal challenge to find non numeric car names that do not have a place of the same name!!

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:40 am
by treehugger
That has had me Google FSO polonez - remember them? - to see if polonez was a place, seems it was a dance! Bollocks.

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:43 am
by mercrocker
NergleFuttocks wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:45 am

Fuck this - every Seat except Fura, Panda, Terra, Exeo and Mii.
Or Bocanegra.

Re: Place related car names

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:46 pm
by mercrocker
Colt Sapporo
Coleman-Milne Dorchester
Armstrong-Siddeley Lancaster (named after the 'plane rather than the town of course)