Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:16:00 -0700
Reply-To: Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: NVC vehicle model names? WT_ were they thinking?
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Fords SUV lineup starts with ,Escape then Explorer and then
Expedition and then Excursion, It was suggested after that that Ford
make a vehicle for border patrol called the "The Extradition"
Stacy
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> When car and truck companies name a vehicle it's supposed to evoke an
> image, right? Get you, as a prospective buyer thinking about
> "the...Whatever.." and how cool it sounds, so you'll be more likely to buy
> one of them, right? Well sometimes that might work.....a little, but most
> of the model designations are pretty lame and some are downright
> laughable... Anybody care to cite a few and what they bring to your mind?
>
> How bout the SUVs? (I am not dissin anyone's ride here, just commenting
> on the Names) the Yukon, the Armada? The Tundra?....Brings to my mind
> those huge open pit mining trucks driving across a fragile landscape
> crushing all kinds of delicate plants and leaving frozen ruts for All of
> Time..
> The Range Rover....back in the day that may have been kinda appropriate as
> a name forthe very adequate off road vehicles that they were... but now the
> name evokes a couple of snobby wanna-be adventure tourists dressed up headed
> to a play, driving on the freeway.
> Toyota Tercel...does that evoke a small falcon swooping along? Nope...not
> to me anyhow...I think "generic little car" with a dumb name.\
> "Hummer"...nuff said. Dodge Magnum...that one sort of fits the
> vehicle..and Powerstroke Diesel Ford...good description, I guess...But
> "Excursion" for the SUV? Or Tahoe? I don't think 'beautiful alpine lake'
> when I see one of those oversized tanks rolling along with Mom in it, headed
> to the supermarket..
>
> Here's a couple of 're-badge' suggestions: The old Air cooled vans from
> VW should have been called "Antartics" maybe..or "Glaciers" Aztecs coulda
> been called Upchucks. Land Cruisers could be Land Crushers. Prius' could
> be Prissys. Pontiac Vibe?...no comment.
>
> I dunno...I was creeping through Portland, Or. rush hour recently amusing
> myself looking at the Marketeers names on all the vehicles and just
> chuckling at some of them...Motorhomes are further out..Even Porsche got
> into it recently...with the Cayenne, the Cayman, the Boxster...maybe they
> shoulda stuck with the numbers. ..
> Don Hanson
>
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