What car names should they bring back

[Pete-M]

Rover Vitesse

 

Seriously? To me, that name was killed by the Rover 800.

[Rod/b]

Which one, the 827 or the Turbot?

[Guest Len H]

The Rover 820 Vitesse is for WINNERS (that's why Pete-M doesn't like it).

[Cavcraft]

Here's a thought though, what if the names were bought back on some nasty, plastic monstrosity? Not much of an example but look at the Escort Mk6 (or whatever it was) 'Mexico'.

[Justin Case]

As the Chevrolet Bel Air would probably come back as a rebadged Daewoo, I'd go for the Opel Admiral with the Opel Commodore one down the pecking order, or even better......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...... the STUDEBAKER DICTATOR

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

As the Chevrolet Bel Air would probably come back as a rebadged Daewoo, I'd go for the Opel Admiral with the Opel Commodore one down the pecking order, or even better......

 

 

...... the STUDEBAKER DICTATOR

 

YES! That sounds like my kind of car.

 

Perhaps Renault could make a cheap luxobarge (a la Magentis) and sell it as the DACIA NOMENCLATURA. Even if I 've never even considered buying a new car, I would be right at the top of the orders list (and probably the bottom, too, as I don't think anybody else would bother!).

[Negative Creep]

We need more cars named after aircraft. Yes we have the Mustang, but we need a Spitfire, Beaufighter, Hurricane, Typhoon etc

[flat4alfa]

Yeah.

 

DACIA DAKOTA has a ring to it

 

CHRYSLER CONSTELLATION

 

TOYOTA TRISTAR

 

PERODUA PITTS SPECIAL

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

We need more cars named after aircraft. Yes we have the Mustang, but we need a Spitfire, Beaufighter, Hurricane, Typhoon etc

 

There's a plane named after a car! The E190, a thinly veiled attempt at stealing Merc's creative skills.

[cms206]

i would like to see the names "avenger" "hunter" and "rapier".... brought back into use

 

 

Futureshite for sure. I don't even think I've seen one yet.

 

http://www.dodge.co.uk/avenger/

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Here's a thought though, what if the names were bought back on some nasty, plastic monstrosity? Not much of an example but look at the Escort Mk6 (or whatever it was) 'Mexico'.

 

This is probably unavoidable and maybe a good reason for names from the past to stay there.

 

[Morgan84]

We had the 'Rapier' editions of the Peugeot 307 - Didn't have the same effect though !!

[Albert Ross]

Surely the best name for an aircraft inspired car was the "Terraplane"..... brought to you by Hudson

 

[RoadworkUK]

The Hudson is Extremely excellent, but my nomination for aircraft-derived name would be;

 

 

Oldsmobile Starfire. Actually, both of those names should make a comeback.

[Albert Ross]

Dodge Dakota

 

 

 

Lightning.

 

 

Edit due to wank picture sizing...

[Pete-M]

The Rover 820 Vitesse is for WINNERS (that's why Pete-M doesn't like it).

 

If your definition of WINNERS is "People who drive utterly shit cars" then fair enough.

 

Some unpopular cars I like. Shite ones with a bit of charm, I like. Brilliant cars, I like. Astonishingly disappointingly shit cars I don't like. The Rover 800 is firmly in the latter category.

 

By the way, since the forum has had a little hiccup I've noticed you're back. How very strange. Don't you have your own little forum where snide comments aren't allowed to go to and

Be less shit

on?

[Morgan84]

One mans nectar is another mans poison

 

I do tend to defend Rovers though - killed off by the Honda 'divorce' and repeated critical coments from the motoring press. There were far worse cars to be had afterall !

[Pete-M]

One mans nectar is another mans poison

 

I do tend to defend Rovers though - killed off by the Honda 'divorce' and repeated critical coments from the motoring press. There were far worse cars to be had afterall !

 

I like Rovers. I've had a few SD1s, a couple of P6Bs, a P5 and a P4. The old ones were superb things. The SD1 V8 was shoddily built but also very cool.

 

I wanted to like the 800, but it was absolute shit and an utter disgrace to the name. Shit build, shit ride, shit engines. Some of them were quick, and Tony Pond managed to hustle one around the IoM at a fair old lick, but he could have made pretty much any of its competitors go around there more quickly - even the Vauxhalls.

 

More than anything, the 800 killed the Rover name in my eyes. In the same way the Acclaim murdered Triumph forever, the 800 killed any chance Rover could ever have had at credibility, their stubborness over the K series fiasco killed any chance they had of survival.

 

As I've said a few times, I like the looks of the 800 in certain specs. I think the Coupé looks like a nice thing. I bought a low mileage 827 SLi - I was that prepared to give the things a decent chance - and it was the second worst car I've ever owned. If my 190E Merc had been more reliable the 827 would have got the trophy for the worst thing I've ever bought.

 

Funnily enough, the 827 I had worked perfectly. Unfortunately, it just emphasised how shit the actual car was.

[Rusty Pelican]

Have a Tornado, IIRC they did a Tornado Tempest and a Typhoon

Cool name

 

Uncool name

Ive got a Singer Chamois , whatever twatto called it that wants hanging , Singer " is that the sewing machine company "

Chamois " why is it named after car cleaning things

[flat4alfa]

Lovely car cleaning things made from the hide of a light and agile hill climber.

[Albert Ross]

More aircraft related.

 

Phantom.

Corsair. (Although this is also boat related, as is Corvette)

[Rover414]

We need more cars named after aircraft. Yes we have the Mustang, but we need a Spitfire, Beaufighter, Hurricane, Typhoon etc

 

There's a plane named after a car! The E190, a thinly veiled attempt at stealing Merc's creative skills.

 

Not to be picky but technically there was the FW-190 from WW2 which had a "FW-190E" (planned but never reached prototype stage) and the FW-190D so maybe Mercedes went after the plane first

[warren t claim]

An almost plane name they should bring back is Toranado, the Oldsmobile type.

[eddyramrod]

Detroit used to "do" names really well. What's not to like about "Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance" for example? I know there's a lot of it, but it flows off the tongue much better (to me, anyway) than, say, "BMW 525e." I don't care for all these made-up pseudo-words that pad out the catalogues these days. WTF is a qashqai? Some kind of Arab cow? At least you know what a Morris Oxford is; it's a British car named after a town. No problem. Plenty of good company there. Cortina (Ford), Monte Carlo (Lancia), Bradford (Jowett), Venezia (Sunbeam; feel free to jump in and add your choice ) and if you expand it to include regions or even countries, you get a whole lot more. Weapons are good, especially for sports cars: Sabre, Scimitar, Rapier, Magnum... Interceptor, as mentioned earlier, is excellent (beats 541R or C-V8, which were their previous models).

 

Someone said we would be disappointed if our old fave was applied to some characterless plastic shit. Very true. Beetle? Mini? Challenger? The manufacturers are trying, bless 'em, with all this retro stuff, but it's like getting back with your girlfriend, or returning to your first job. It's never the same, never as good. Imagine a 2012 Humber Sceptre, built by Peugeot. Worse... imagine a 2012 Humber Imperial!

[Negative Creep]

We need more cars named after aircraft. Yes we have the Mustang, but we need a Spitfire, Beaufighter, Hurricane, Typhoon etc

 

There's a plane named after a car! The E190, a thinly veiled attempt at stealing Merc's creative skills.

 

Not to be picky but technically there was the FW-190 from WW2 which had a "FW-190E" (planned but never reached prototype stage) and the FW-190D so maybe Mercedes went after the plane first

 

Except the FW190 used a BMW engine (or at least the radial engined ones did)

[Pete-M]

Except the FW190 used a BMW engine (or at least the radial engined ones did)

 

One of these... They're rather large. Sorry for the shoddy photo but it was taken on my old phone in a tank restoration place in Czech.

 

 

Just for confirmation.

 

[Negative Creep]

Something they strangely don't mention much these days............

[scaryoldcortina]

On the same theme, how about the Mitsubishi Zero? Ideal for some new low emission thingy

[Pete-M]

Something they strangely don't mention much these days............

 

A bit OT but that tank workshop was a shiters dream. Stuff ranged from a workshop stuffed with Pug 505s to an ex-porn starlets Camaro (2.8 V6, natch), Praga V3S radio truck (very rare with Mercedes diesel engine from new), lots of old Nazi and Soviet aircraft engines and a King Tiger that had been dragged from a river bed. Chap who owned it had a properly interesting place, it was like a historical document of the insanity that has gone on in that part of the world for the last couple of hundred years. The old Communist social club in the factory was intact, the photos on the walls were from the 1920s-1980s of staff who'd worked their over the years and he'd kept it all as it would have been at the time.

 

It's not a museum, he's very select about who visits. Fortunately one of his staff (of three) at the time was a friend of mine.

 

I was amazed to spot this in situ..

 

 

Oh, he also gave me this to play with. (Spot the N reg Transit I drove there...)

 

[Negative Creep]

On the same theme, how about the Mitsubishi Zero? Ideal for some new low emission thingy

 

A quick google shows nothing, but I'm pretty sure they actually did a Colt Zero special edition in Japan