Need some clever car names
September 17, 2014 10:03 PM Subscribe
What are some fictional car names that sound funny or would get someone to raise a smile? I know there are some out there; I get asked about car names sometimes and want to put some fun responses together.
Best answer: Last month we christened the still nameless old Buick "Shadowfax".
posted by Namlit at 10:32 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Namlit at 10:32 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Do you mean like what I might name my own car? Or fictional car brands?
posted by LobsterMitten at 10:33 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by LobsterMitten at 10:33 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Not fictional, but GM once introduced a concept car called the Impact.
Impact. You know, the thing drivers try to avoid making with things.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:39 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
Impact. You know, the thing drivers try to avoid making with things.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:39 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Yeah, this could also be about fictional cars of known brands (like the Toyota Reject, or the Chrysler Vomit). Maybe explain...
posted by Namlit at 10:40 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Namlit at 10:40 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: since there's already a kitt, why not a dogg?
posted by bruce at 10:49 PM on September 17, 2014
posted by bruce at 10:49 PM on September 17, 2014
Response by poster: Ideally {Make} {Model} format, like fictional car brands, yes.
posted by circular at 11:09 PM on September 17, 2014
posted by circular at 11:09 PM on September 17, 2014
Best answer: Aha. The Doodaah Conundrum
posted by Namlit at 11:26 PM on September 17, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Namlit at 11:26 PM on September 17, 2014 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Are you talking about stuff like the Canyonero?
posted by aubilenon at 12:33 AM on September 18, 2014
posted by aubilenon at 12:33 AM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: We did this actually as a game during the summer. Remembering a few:
P T Crusher
Ford Privy
AMC Lucifer
Pontiac BigBird
posted by Namlit at 12:43 AM on September 18, 2014 [6 favorites]
P T Crusher
Ford Privy
AMC Lucifer
Pontiac BigBird
posted by Namlit at 12:43 AM on September 18, 2014 [6 favorites]
Best answer: Austin Tashus
Cool Papa Bell...here's another non-fictional: the Daihatsu Charade
posted by artdrectr at 1:03 AM on September 18, 2014 [2 favorites]
Cool Papa Bell...here's another non-fictional: the Daihatsu Charade
posted by artdrectr at 1:03 AM on September 18, 2014 [2 favorites]
Best answer: I used to drive a Ford Exploder.
posted by salishsea at 1:03 AM on September 18, 2014 [7 favorites]
posted by salishsea at 1:03 AM on September 18, 2014 [7 favorites]
Best answer: Then there's variants of diehard
Dieloud
Diespectacular
Dieinconvenient
Diecast
(Voice of David Attenborough: "Circling the site, several Subaru Scavenger.")
posted by Namlit at 2:40 AM on September 18, 2014
Dieloud
Diespectacular
Dieinconvenient
Diecast
(Voice of David Attenborough: "Circling the site, several Subaru Scavenger.")
posted by Namlit at 2:40 AM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: Wagon Queen Family Truckster
posted by HuronBob at 2:57 AM on September 18, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by HuronBob at 2:57 AM on September 18, 2014 [2 favorites]
Best answer: From James Morrow's City of Truth, where no one lies, or even exaggerates: the Ford Adequate.
posted by BrashTech at 4:06 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by BrashTech at 4:06 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Non-fictional: my first car was a Chevrolet Citation. As in the word that appears at the top of every speeding ticket.
posted by Daily Alice at 4:18 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Daily Alice at 4:18 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Another nonfictional one -- the Chevy Nova, which had to be renamed for the Spanish-speaking market, because 'no va' means 'it doesn't go.' (If that's not apocryphal?)
posted by daisyace at 4:38 AM on September 18, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by daisyace at 4:38 AM on September 18, 2014 [2 favorites]
Best answer: In The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the characters rent a Ford Brontosaurus.
posted by drdanger at 5:02 AM on September 18, 2014
posted by drdanger at 5:02 AM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: The Oldsmobile Underachieva?
posted by Monsieur Caution at 5:53 AM on September 18, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by Monsieur Caution at 5:53 AM on September 18, 2014 [4 favorites]
Best answer: The Chevy Nova story may be apocryphal. However, in Europe, Ford sells a small SUV named the Kuga. Kuga means plague in Slovene and Serbo-Croatian.
posted by penguinicity at 6:15 AM on September 18, 2014
posted by penguinicity at 6:15 AM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: We had a bunch of fake car names in my high school days:
Ford Priest
Chevy Panhandler
Chevrolet Old Man
Chevrolet Esquilax
Oldsmobile Zanzibar Mark III
posted by pepcorn at 6:48 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
Ford Priest
Chevy Panhandler
Chevrolet Old Man
Chevrolet Esquilax
Oldsmobile Zanzibar Mark III
posted by pepcorn at 6:48 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Honda Scurvy
Ah and then there were the various German Opel cars of the sixties:
Opel Kadett became Deppl K.O. [fool knockout; a car that never works and looks silly...]
And of course we had the Opel Karajan...
posted by Namlit at 7:35 AM on September 18, 2014
Ah and then there were the various German Opel cars of the sixties:
Opel Kadett became Deppl K.O. [fool knockout; a car that never works and looks silly...]
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And of course we had the Opel Karajan...
posted by Namlit at 7:35 AM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: The Canyonero. The best name for a truly huge SUV.
posted by Midnight Skulker at 7:37 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Midnight Skulker at 7:37 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Back in the day when I used to read the publication, Car and Driver used to regularly bemoan that Lincoln/Mercury still wasn't offering a DeSade option for their Marquis model.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:46 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 7:46 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Bill Bryson once referred to a car as a Ford Thesaurus, which still makes me laugh.
posted by anderjen at 9:03 AM on September 18, 2014
posted by anderjen at 9:03 AM on September 18, 2014
Best answer:
posted by IAmBroom at 9:45 AM on September 18, 2014
Cool Papa Bell: GM once introduced a concept car called the Impact.Not a single word in that quote surprises anyone, ever.
posted by IAmBroom at 9:45 AM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: I used to mock Toyotas (but now I'm on my second). Always thought they should manufacture the Toyota Toylette, available only in white, with a special American Standard version available in the Western hemisphere.
posted by Rash at 9:48 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Rash at 9:48 AM on September 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Thundercougarfalconbird.
Thunderchicken.
Both are Fords.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 10:22 AM on September 18, 2014
Thunderchicken.
Both are Fords.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 10:22 AM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: Reflecting on the Chevy Citation, I realized that since it was a compact, they ought to have had a mid-size Misdemeanor and a full-size Felony.
posted by Daily Alice at 11:28 AM on September 18, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by Daily Alice at 11:28 AM on September 18, 2014 [5 favorites]
Best answer: The Grand Theft Auto video game series has a huge quantity of fictional car model names inspired by actual cars - see this list here for the cars featured in GTA V.
posted by BigLankyBastard at 1:29 PM on September 18, 2014
posted by BigLankyBastard at 1:29 PM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: The Sherpa, from Intimida... it's a mighty big car.
posted by mefireader at 1:36 PM on September 18, 2014
posted by mefireader at 1:36 PM on September 18, 2014
Best answer: Dodge! Ram! always strikes me as hilarious, but it's a real brand. I also thought the sister models to the Ford Probe should be the Lincoln Speculum and the Mercury Proctoscope.
posted by Jasper Fnorde at 12:16 PM on September 19, 2014
posted by Jasper Fnorde at 12:16 PM on September 19, 2014
Best answer: It's real, but there was a car in Japan called a Honda That's.
Yes, That's is the name.
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 12:35 PM on September 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
Yes, That's is the name.
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 12:35 PM on September 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
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