Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 23:34:00 -0400 From: "Kenneth S." <nimrodnopsams.com> Subject: Re: Mercedes smokes BWM/Saab/Volvo with better model names
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.
