Slang names for cars

[ProgRocker]

Fiat Tempramental    (personal experience) 

Fiat Regretta

 

[dozeydustman]

On 29/10/2021 at 00:24, eddyramrod said:

Ford Cack (Ka)

Tranny (Transit)

Granny (Granada)

Dagenham Dustbin (Zephyr or Zodiac, usually mk4)

Triumph Harold (Herald)

 

On 29/10/2021 at 10:33, garethj said:

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

I refer to any Blue Oval as a Dagenham Dustbin, as did my granddad who was in the trade 35 years.

[dozeydustman]

Some from my friends and family

Fiat Teapot - Tipo
Ford Onion/Urinal - Orion
Ford Curtains - Cortina (Cortina is Spanish for curtain)
Datsun Micron - Nissan Micra
VW Flog - Golf
VW Borat - Bora
Skoda Labia - Fabia
Ford Scrotum/scrote - Escort
Shove-it - Chevette
Chavvy Leah - Cavalier
Tupperware car - Reliant 3-wheeler
Vulva - Volvo
 

Can't think of any more at the moment

[GR8 PL8 M8]

I assume I'm not the only one already calling this the Toenail?

(For those OOTL, Alfa would rather you call it the Tonale)

[RoverFolkUs]

Given their tendancy to snap subframes, the Mercedes C Class and E Class is called the "Death-Class" by me from now on

[Metal Guru]

VW Toe Rag

Plastic pig - Reliant Regal ( may have been applied to the Robin as well)

Skip - Skoda convertible

Russian wheelbarrow - contrary to a previous post , I believe this referred to a mythical  Lada with twin exhausts

Fizzy - Yamaha FS1E

Dont remember seeing Roller, Cossie or Bini mentioned ( maybe too obvious).

 

[RoverFolkUs]

Citroen C4 Picasso - Citroen see-four-pigarseholes

[Skut]

Lancia Y10 - White Hen

Perodua - Prodder

Fiat Tipo - Teapot

 

[Austat]

Van-dent plah.

[Metal Guru]

Ford Scorpio - wide mouthed frog or Cherie Blair.

[Billy - Medhurst]

[3VOM]

10 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Fizzy - Yamaha FS1E

I remembered now - Purple Lemming

[Billy - Medhurst]

[ProgRocker]

How reliable was the Fiat Strada? Did it ever get called the Fiat Stranded? 

[Carl1981]

Some that I haven’t seen mentioned here …

Rover Met-Rot (Metro)

Renault clitoris (Clio)

Ford Escrot (Escort)

Toyota Anus (Auris)

Tin-Snail (Citroën 2cv)

 

 

[Richard_FM]

I've heard the Fiat Tipo being called the Italian Maestro.

[RoverFolkUs]

Swap 'Ford' for 'Anal' and you get some very amusing names

Anal Probe

Anal Explorer

Anal Ranger 

Anal Teritory

To name a few...

[St.Jude]

In Ireland, for some reason, every 4x4 is referred to as a jeep.

Land Rover Defender? Jeep.

Land Rover Freelander? Jeep.

Toyota Land Cruiser? Jeep.

Jeep? A whip.

I catch myself doing it too, I blame my dad.

[mcmolloy1]

18 minutes ago, St.Jude said:

In Ireland, for some reason, every 4x4 is referred to as a jeep.

Land Rover Defender? Jeep.

Land Rover Freelander? Jeep.

Toyota Land Cruiser? Jeep.

Jeep? A whip.

I catch myself doing it too, I blame my dad.

Not just 4x4's, some people call all SUV' s jeeps. Drives me nuts. It's mostly an older generation thing though

[St.Jude]

53 minutes ago, mcmolloy1 said:

Not just 4x4's, some people call all SUV' s jeeps. Drives me nuts. It's mostly an older generation thing though

Anything that looks like a 4x4, Dacia Duster, it's a Jeep. My mom calls my Land Cruiser a jeep, I try calling it a truck, but I end up reverting back to jeep as "broken land cruiser on my driveway" is a mouth full. 

It doesn't bother me so much. It winds my wife up though, so I do it to wind her up about it really.

[M'coli]

I call the Hyundai Santa Fe the Lapland, because [Glaswegian] that's wherr Santa's fae[/Glaswegian]!

[eddyramrod]

For no visible reason, there were quite a few Kia Sportages on the motorway today.  Naturally I am now calling them the Shortage.

[Noel Tidybeard]

toyoyo- toyota

toyota corrosion- 70's corolla

lancia y10- pale chicken

nissan kumquat

singsong- ssangyong

mishymushy- mitsubishi

hunda- honda

fraud- ford

mondingo- mundano

vecturd- vectra

primevil- primera

range rooney- chavvy evoque

ewock- evoque

 

[Pieman]

On 5/14/2022 at 9:42 PM, St.Jude said:

In Ireland, for some reason, every 4x4 is referred to as a jeep.

Land Rover Defender? Jeep.

Land Rover Freelander? Jeep.

Toyota Land Cruiser? Jeep.

Jeep? A whip.

I catch myself doing it too, I blame my dad.

A mechanic I used to know through oval racing once had a big jacked-up orange Land Rover Discovery, on the back of which was a sticker reading "IT'S NOT A FUCKING JEEP, OK?"

(Kind of an appropriate sticker for him, as he was completely unable to form a sentence without using the word "fuck" at least twice.)

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

toyoyo- toyota

See also: Toy Yoda.

[Metal Guru]

11 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

See also: Toy Yoda.

Don’t forget Clarkson’s Toy Boater.