Today's community question: what's the most ridiculous car name you've ever heard?
Some car names really don’t translate well! Here are a few particularly ridiculous ones to get the ball rolling:
- Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard
- Mitsubishi Mini Active Urban Sandal
- Geely Rural Nanny
Can you do better?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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For French people: Toyota MR2
as pronouced in french: “Eh Merrrrde” which means “ohh sh*t!”
or “The car is sh*t” depending how you say it.
Makes sense, thats what people say when taking a corner at high speed in the rain in an MR2.
C’est vrai, mais comme le modèle n’est pas très répandu ça passe à peu près.
It’s true, but the MR2 isn’t a common model right here so it’s not a big deal
Dihatsu naked…
Toyota iQ
Toyota deliboy
Citroen Saxo. Means oral sex in Spanish…
Where!?
En México no es así…
Changan “Chana” as sold in the brazilian market some years ago.
Chana is a nickname for vagina in brazilian portuguese, it became a joke
Mitsubishi Lettuce
More like a potato than lettuce!
What.
Kia Besta, trying to say it was the best in the “a” class (get it?).
Besta means “dumb” in portuguese
It’s actually thanks to sweden the Honda Jazz became the Jazz in Europe and the Fit everywhere else. Fitta was scrapped for reasons clear to those who seek translation.
Anything within the “Anadol” brand, sounds bad doesn’t it?
Some of them were really ugly…