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A certain little car in Canada is a Pantyliner... 
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I can't believe no one mentioned the Dodge Aspen... "Hey, how's your Aspen ("ass-been"). 
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I guess my biggest annoyance is the constantly changing car names. Let me put it this way... the Contour would still be named the Falcon in my way of thinking. Automakers seem to be changing names all the time for no good reason. I'd have also kept the Escort name rather than Focus.
Don't even get me started on trim line inflation!
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Nuts - somebody beat me to the Cimmaron! How 'bout: VW Golf Dodge Mirada Renault Alliance (appliance?) Mercury Capri Isuzu Amigo Pontiac Fiero GMC Jimmy AMC Ambassador
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You guys missed the worst ones (spelling?):
Stanza
Cressida
Laganza
Nubira
What the hell do these mean? The Japs are the worst in naming cars, by far.
A lot of names are the work of think tanks/ ad agency types. They try to convey meanings of quality, superiority, etc., like:
Achieva - achievement
Acura - accurate
etc.
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Originally posted by n2_space: I can't believe no one has said Aztek yet! I agree. Did anyone mention the Chevy Nova yet? In spanish, No Va' means "doesn't go". LMAO
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/begin sarcasm
Did anyone say Nova yet? In swahili it means dragon butt. Wow Toyota really screwed up on that one.
/end sarcasm :p
I will put in another vote for the Achieva. Everything about the car was hideous, but the name was the worst.
Every other bad name I could think of has already been mentioned.
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/begin sarcasm
Did anyone say Nova yet? In swahili it means dragon butt. Wow Toyota really screwed up on that one.
/end sarcasm
LMAO! . I wonder which dufus brought up this Nova thing to begin with. What a loser!
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Hey, theres nothing wrong with 6000 or Mystique. I happen to be the VERY proud owner of a 1990 6000 S/E AWD, what other car had 2-tone heated leather seats, AWD, load leveling suspension, steering wheel audio controls, ABS, Bose audio system, and was as nice as that was back then? Face it, the Pontiac 6000 was the first American vehicle to take German lessons  and even Car and Driver said that back in 1982 And Mystique is a very nice car too....especially when most people have never heard of them, and you can tell them that it was imported from Europe, with a 50K pricetag, and they'll never know any different
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Did anyone mention "Citroen"? What a screw up! What the folks at that company apparently didn't know was that "Citroen" means "lemon" in French. No wonder these cars never sold well.
Seriously, doesn't "nova" actually mean "new in spanish? Or is that Italian?
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