Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:54:18 +0100 From: Johannes H Andersen <johsnopsamsafish.com> Subject: Re: Mercedes smokes BWM/Saab/Volvo with better model names
"Kenneth S." wrote: > > Johannes H Andersen wrote: > > > > JStrickland wrote: > > > > > > You are right, Volvo is now the proud owner of monikers such as Pinto and Falcon .... > > > > > [....] > > > > What a shame Saab abandoned the zeroes; the Saab 9-5 should have been > > a 90000 and perhaps the 9-5 estate should have been a 900000 ! A large > > luxury Saab (7-series) could be a Saab 9000000 - very impressive. > > > > Johannes > > I was always impressed by those Fiat models that, years ago, had > lengthy, but euphonious, Italian numerical designations. There was one > that was called something like (phonetic) millechinkqua-quatrichentoh. > > Saab should call their models by long Swedish names -- or even better, > since some of them are built in Finland, by long unpronounceable Finnish > names with lots of double letters. I certainly don't think there will > be much of a market for a Saab Vega. On a different matter, I remember some years ago there was a Renault TV commercial for the (then) Renault 5 "What's yours called ?". Supposedly to imply that it was a "sweet" little car. I always thought of people who stick names to their cars as prats (let's not beat about the bush here). As usual with car commercials, they appeal to the most brain-dead unimaginable lowest common denominator. Johannes
