Slang names for cars

[17-Coffees]

Nissan Juke - Joke...or as @rantingYoof would say, 'Shit'. 

 

 

 

[Erebus]

Skodas:

Labia

Fellatio

Shitigo

cOctavia

[Bren]

Passat - Patwat

Honda C90 - bog seat

[Eyersey1234]

10 hours ago, garethj said:

That’s interesting, my dad always used to call the Ford Escort a Dagenham Dustbin, it does roll off the tongue nicely 😀

The Prefect my grandparents had in the 50s was also referred to as a Dagenham Dustbin 

[ProgRocker]

IIRC, Jalopy magazine referred to Ford's supermini as the 'Siesta'.

[Richard_FM]

Korean Cortina = Hyundai Stellar

Japanese Mercedes = Lexus

French Allegro = Renault 14 (aka Rotten Pear)

Italian Allegro = Fiat Strada

American Allegro = AMC Pacer

Yank Tank or Detroit Iron = Any American Car

Disco = Land Rover Discovery

Granny = Ford Granada

Monty = Austin Montego

Landcrab = BMC 1800 / 2200

Auntie = Rover P4

Pop = Ford Popular

Moggy = Morris Minor

[Asimo]

Reliant Regal - Russian wheelbarrow

Vespa / Lambretta - Hairdryer

Mk4 Zodiac - Snuffler

[MiniMort]

I read once that in Poland they used to call the Fiat 126p 'The Kazlak', which translates to 'The Cougher' as reference to the sound of its air cooled engine. 

The FSO 125p got the nickname 'kredenz' which means 'cupboard'. I'm not making this up. 

[MiniMort]

The Citroen 2CV has a tonne of weird nicknames all around the world. Obviously here in Britain we call it the Tin Snail but in France some people call it 'the big beast'. In The Netherlands they call it 'the ugly duck', the Finnish refer to it as the 'Rag Citroen' thanks to its soft top roof, the former Yugoslavians say its the oddity but my favourite has to be the nickname the Flemish gave it... 'the goat'.

[Richard_FM]

3 hours ago, MiniMort said:

The Citroen 2CV has a tonne of weird nicknames all around the world. Obviously here in Britain we call it the Tin Snail but in France some people call it 'the big beast'. In The Netherlands they call it 'the ugly duck', the Finnish refer to it as the 'Rag Citroen' thanks to its soft top roof, the former Yugoslavians say its the oddity but my favourite has to be the nickname the Flemish gave it... 'the goat'.

I've heard in Germany they were known as Student Cars & Cockroaches in Sweden.

[martc]

20 hours ago, Bren said:

Honda C90

'Grunter' around these parts.

 

 

[lesapandre]

Mini Clubfoot.

[Ghosty]

A personal one - I call Nissan X-Trails the Entrails. 

[Spiny Norman]

A wee bit obscure maybe but to me this is an  Itchypussy Delicious Space Cakes.
 

[AdeMk1]

Pisshat - Passat
Camels ear - Cavalier
Moggy - Morris
Cashcow - Qashqai
Scooby - Subaru
Jelly mould - Sierra

[Pieman]

On 10/29/2021 at 1:57 PM, JimH said:

I find it incredible that anyone remembers that PIF.

 As an aside, it is Mrs Blunder who comes up with the greatest meal suggestion of all time. I mean, who wouldn't look forward to coming home to a steaming plate of spaghetti and Brussels sprouts. No wonder they all drove like they wanted to die. 

For those who care.

I implore you to watch to the end. The look on the face of the poor sod actor driving the Cortina says that this was Take 7. He really isn't looking forward to it. 

I've been wondering for YEARS why 1100s were known as that in banger circles, thank you!

[Amishtat]

7 hours ago, Pieman said:

I've been wondering for YEARS why 1100s were known as that in banger circles, thank you!

Me too, and nobody I asked ever knew. But why was a P6 a Joey? 

[steveo3002]

orion were always urinal round these parts

bora = borat

citroen =shitroen, which in fairness is what they should be called from the dealers

[groovylee]

On 10/29/2021 at 8:38 AM, bangernomics said:

TVR - Trevor
Ford Escort - Ford labia (every xxxx has them)

i always heard Ford Focus - Ford Clitoris (same reason|) lol

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, groovylee said:

i always heard Ford Focus - Ford Clitoris (same reason|) lol

Reminds me of something I read in the Viz Profanisaurus:

Subarus (noun)
A pair of lady's undercrackers. So called because there's commonly a small, hairless cnut inside them.

[catsinthewelder]

On 11/1/2021 at 11:34 PM, Ghosty said:

A personal one - I call Nissan X-Trails the Entrails. 

Which reminds me of Dodgy Tom who referred to his as the Sex Trial 😂

[Dj_efk]

Shitroen 2 shit for me was always my fav.

[Dan302]

Not the name of a car but I heard in the 80s/90s the hard shoulder was nicknamed Montego Bay

[EightMegs]

Proton Bumfuck (Credit to @Crackers)

[AnnoyingPentium]

Fabia gets called a Furby/Furbie. Octavia just gets Octy AFAIK.

[Metal Guru]

On 29/10/2021 at 10:48, crapcarcollector said:

Fiat winkypot - Cinquecento
Alfa Bread van - Alfa 145
Flying Brick - Volvo 850 T5
Scooby Doo - Subaru usually with some sort of noisy exhaust
*****car - Chrysler PT Cruiser


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No one says Scooby Doo, it’s just a Scooby ( or Subie if you’re American) and big exhausts are compulsory on WRX and STi models.

[Metal Guru]

MR2 is pronounced in French as Merde which means Shit, so presumably not many were sold there.

[Barry Cade]

Renner Migraine. Dat ass ones always caused me cluster headaches..

[TrabbieRonnie]

The Trabant was nick-named "Rennpappe" in the DDR, literally 'Racing Cardboard'!

I actually quite like the real meaning of its name mind, Trabant is German for satellite or companion...  I think it's the Russian equivalent of Sputnik.

[Borsuq]

In Poland at least:

Mercedes W123 - beczka (barrel)

Mercedes W124 - baleron (a kind of Polish cured, smoked meat)

Mercedes T1/TN - kaczka (duck)

VW Beetle - garbus (hunchback)

FSO/FSM Syrena - skarpeta (sock), królowa pobocza (queen of the shoulder; as in they break down so often)

PF 125p - kredens (cupboard), duży Fiat (big Fiat)

PF 126p - kaszlak (cougher), mały Fiat (small Fiat), maluch (little one; later adopted as an official name)

FSC/FS Żuk - żul (junkie, bum; came from parts of the letter k commonly breaking off leaving an l)