# What's the Worst Name for a Car? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [April 17, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079 "2017-04-17T23:06:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/41 "2017-04-18T13:38:20Z")
> [@common\_sense\_answer](#): > > Every time I see one I’m thinking Hi-OON-dye When they first started advertising that relatively unknown marque in The US, their TV and radio commercials all pronounced the name as HON-dye. I think it was obvious that they were either trying to make an association with the well-reputed Honda brand, or they were just trying to confuse everyone into buying their cars–which were essentially disposable items back in those days. Somehow, they overcame the stigma of their Excel model… According to a Korean friend of mine, the pronunciation is Hoon-dye, but because he was born in The US, he could just as well be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/42 "2017-04-18T13:39:29Z")
Volkswagen _ **Dasher** _… Sorry folks, I could never own a car named for any of Santa’s reindeer! 🐐 _ **CSA** _ 😊 ---
**Author:** ![cwatkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@cwatkin](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cwatkin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/43 "2017-04-18T13:43:50Z")
How about the Fiero? It even lived up to its name by catching on fire! ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/44 "2017-04-18T16:57:31Z")
Well, the Bolt is far better than the first electric concept car they presented in 1990 named **Impact**. Everybody wants to be in an Impact while driving… ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/45 "2017-04-18T17:30:59Z")
I used to describe less than successful work associates as “aspiring to mediocrity”. ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/46 "2017-04-18T17:34:26Z")
Toyota Racing Division TRDs still crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/47 "2017-04-18T17:39:30Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > …in The US, their TV and radio commercials all pronounced the name as HON-dye. Newer ones seem to say “hee-un day.” [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/9/2/921b9324c116467c53bcadd3baa76685490babc9.jpeg "Hyundai TV Commercial : The All-New Genesis (A version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AynZWzikbYs) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/48 "2017-04-18T17:41:40Z")
Maybe we should just go to numbers instead, like Ford #1, #2, etc. Oh wait, that wouldn’t do. You’d have to start with #3 at least then we might end up with 3a and 3b or fourbee which is similar to the superbee. I dunno. Its just too confusing. ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/49 "2017-04-18T18:03:00Z")
> Maybe we should just go to numbers instead I always liked Boeing’s strategy: 707, 727, 737, etc…which leaves you to wonder: 1. Where did the impetus come from to name the “707” in the first place? 2. Why did they skip “717?” (Yes, I know that, eventually, they made a DC-9 derivative the 717, but for a long time, there was none.) Also, Ford’s truck strategy was 1,2,3… and then they switched that logical progression up into 100, 200, 300. (I _think_ it was around the time the “F-100 Super Sabre” was all the rage as the USAF began its “century series” fighters, but don’t hold me to that!) ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/50 "2017-04-18T18:23:55Z")
> [@shadowfax](#): > > Hyundai Veloster. Great car. Stupid name Wasn’t _Jurassic Park,_ with it’s B.A. “velociraptors” in the limelight at the time? I always thought it was a good name…made you think you were driving around like a velociraptor: fast and deadly, in spite of (or even because of) being smaller and more nimble than the lumbering behemoths. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/51 "2017-04-18T18:38:59Z")
That would make sense, but JP debuted in 1993. The Veloster came along in 2012. Had they called it the Velociraptor, it would have been a much cooler name! BTW, trivia: The “Velociraptor” in JP was inaccurate. Velociraptors were only about the size of a turkey. The movie’s Velociraptor was physically more analogous to Deinonychus. Thus endeth your nerd esoterica for today. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eddo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/eddo/32/2594_2.png) [@eddo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/eddo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/52 "2017-04-18T18:42:23Z")
> [@Nevada\_545](#): > > > [@shanonia](#): > > > > A classic of this genre has to be Chevrolet’s Nova. > > > > Nova = Spanish for doesn’t go. > > Myth, I suspect the astronomical word “Nova” is the same in Spanish and English. it appears that Google translate disagrees with you- as it translates Spanish ‘Nova’ into English ‘not going’. ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/7/7e9bc7a85eb5f67a382a309ec400eb0a95fc2650.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/53 "2017-04-18T18:53:59Z")
That should be two words, no va. Try it in plural form, **Novae**. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/54 "2017-04-18T19:24:57Z")
Wow, and I thought MY head was filled with trivia just waiting to spill out! 😄 The movie wouldn’t have been as frightening with man-eating turkey-sized velociraptors, would it? Well Gremlins was pretty scary… ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/55 "2017-04-18T20:14:04Z")
The Plymouth Prowler sounds like a petty thief (car prowler). I guess Growler wouldn’t work so well with the V6. The Dodge Stealth failed to perform as advertised. It showed up just fine on police RADAR. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/56 "2017-04-18T21:58:18Z")
A growler is also a beer bottle, and might not be good to associate with driving. That would get several people MADD at that car company. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/57 "2017-04-18T23:00:22Z")
What ever became of the dodge truck called the T REX that they made a proto type of I think in the late 90.s? ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/58 "2017-04-19T00:45:17Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > A growler is also a beer bottle A “growler” is also a gadget used to diagnose alternator winding problems. You’d use a growler to fix a Growler. Then drink from a growler to celebrate 😉 ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/59 "2017-04-19T00:48:31Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > What ever became of the dodge truck called the T REX… Uh…it’s extinct. ;-] ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-worst-name-for-a-car/103079/60 "2017-04-19T02:18:47Z")
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