My neighbour has a Daihatsu Duster. When they bought it new, a few years ago, they knew that I was looking for a car and they recommended it to me as there was about £500 discount going to them for recommending someone and they said that they would give it to me. I didn't have the heart to tell them that I clean my house with dusters, not drive them. The only other thing that come to mind is the Austin Allegro - or All Agro, as I knew it.
The classic that I remember is Chevy introducing the Nova to the US Hispanic market without someone noticing that NoVa means “Doesn’t go” in Spanish!
I think they should go back to the seventies tradition of naming cars after porn mags. Ford Fiesta Ford Escort Mini Mayfair Honda Jazz (mag) Vauxhall Readers Wives
My first car, 1600 with a Twin Choke Weber Carburettor. Went like a stabbed rat until Mrs Five ended up with an Astra parked in the front of it.
They were brilliant! My uncle was a Fiat dealer and my dad had one when I passed my car test. I was insured for it and it went like sh.. off a shovel. Some top shags in it as well!
Where to start, The Skoda ‘superb’ The Mitsubishi ‘Carisma’ The Isuzu ‘Mysterious utility wizard’ The Mitsubishi ‘Lettuce’ The Nissan ‘sunny’
Also, there’s a story that the Mitsubishi Starion was so called after it arrived in the U.K. market without name badges so the U.K. distributor called Japan HQ and asked what they should call it. Mitsubishi had a tradition of using equine names (eg: “Colt”) so the guy on the end of the phone informed him in a heavy Japanese accent that it was to be named “Stallion”, which due to being mangled in mispronunciation came out as “Starion”. To hide their corporate blushes they then later had to cook up some BS cover story about it being a contraction of “Star Orion” I don’t know if it’s true or just an urban myth and I don’t want to fact check it either as I like the anecdote too much.
Yep. And forever associated in my mind with that lady in Undateables who suffered from Tourette’s for whom shouting “Thundercats!” was one of her tics. As was the old favourite “Wankers!”, the rather wonderful “Paedo in a Speedo” and “Kick him in the nuts and send him to space”..... She’s featured in this clip from 1m 01s
Years ago on tour in France our group was held up behind a kind of mini camper van, could have shot past it easy but I noticed that the lead rider was pointing at the back of the camper, we all bunched up behind it at a road junction and pissed ourselves laughing at this......Mazda Bongo Friendee !
