Last week I mentioned silly names, and here’s a few more that were sent to me:
It used to be that the most silly names given to cars were usually Nissan. How many red blooded blokes would buy a car called Cedric, for example (and apologies to all those chaps called Cedric by their parents, nothing personal)! In the past few years, Nissan kept up their silly names with things like a “Queen cab” (what a friend of mine bought because he was gay) and then there was the Tiida, and the best of the unpronounceables, the Quashqai!
While still in Japan, Mitsubishi managed to come up with the Canter Guts light truck and the never to be forgotten Mitsubishi Mum 500 Shall We Join Us?
Canter Guts.
However, Volkswagen have now applied to join the society for silly names, too. Firstly there was the Touareg, then there was the Tiguan, which VW said was a cross between a tiger and an iguana – I am not making this up – but I would have loved to watch the mating of its parents. But now, VW has released the Amarok, a pick-up, and we are told the name means “wolf” in the Inuit language which is used by the Eskimos at the North Pole when they’re not clubbing the odd seal cub! It will have to end up being called the “Anorak”.
