What is the worst car name ever?

[The Night Owl]

My vote for worst car name goes to the Bonneville.

[Neoma]

1. Hummer

[Gothic Sponge]

13. I concur

[pk_du]

2. Nova

it bombed in Spanish speaking coutnries befoe they renamed it.

No_va = Doesnt go!

[RagingInMiami]

6. yep, I was going to say that, but you beat me to it.

[President Jesus]

3. Bon Jovi Golf

I shit you not, I drove one.

Just like Ford has the eddie Bauer explorere, in Germany, they had the Bon Jovi Golf. The emblem on the stick shift was exactly like the band's, and teh sides of the car said 'Bon Jovi.'

Man did I score some ass with that car.

[norml]

4. How about the 1927-1937 Studebaker Dictator?

1937 was the last year for the Dictator nameplate. With Hitler and Mussolini gathering power in Europe, 'Dictator' became politically incorrect and so the name was dropped. 1937 was however the first year Studebaker saw the influence of master stylist Raymond Loewy, who did a beautiful facelift of the existing 1936 models. With the Great Depression still somewhat at hand, pricing for the Dictator was quite low this year.

[ScrewyRabbit]

5. The "Magnum" sounds an awful lot like a condom

maybe that was deliberate tho!

[drhilarius]

7. the VW Touareg...

Sounds like the noise a yak makes before vomiting.

[Maple]

8. The Edsel

It never sold, and numerous jokes were made about the name.

[Hieronymus]

21. Edsel is my choice as well...

:toast:

[JohnnyRingo]

9. "Cavalier"....Think about it

[The Night Owl]

10. Now that I think about it, the "Probe" might be the worst name for a car.

Who wants to drive a Probe? Sounds all wrong.

:crazy:

[MichaelHarris]

11. Volare or

something like that made by Plymoth.

http://www.musclecars.net/showcardetail.php?c=m&o=3966&PHPSESSID=484ff669d873129588e6fb39d2721e48

[amandae]

15. That was my first car!

I only had it for a very short period of time before the transmission quit on me and my father decided it wasn't worth fixing (the car was a 1980 I believe and it was 1993!). After that they let me use their more reliable car to get to school (I was in high school) and work in.

:hi:

On edit: My car did NOT look like that!! LOL ... it was white, rusted and I think it had four doors. I think it also only had AM radio! LOL!

[MichaelHarris]

18. cool

looks like Muscle Car guys loved it. I think my first car was a 1968 Chrystler Newport, I got it in the 70's when I was in High School. It was ummm almost 85 feet long and made out of depleted uranium I think, couldn't dent it.

[shawmut]

19. I had a '77 Volare

my first car ... 800 bucks. :)

[MichaelHarris]

20. on that website where I got the pic

it looks like those guys love the Volare. Must make a good muscle car.

[Vanje]

12. Probe

I mean...Eeeuwwww.

[shawmut]

14. Fiat

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. Gremlin

Had one. Lived up to it's name.

[chaska]

23. What??? that's an awesome name.

[Book Lover]

17. Avalanche

Why name your vehicle after a disaster?

[CornField]

22. Aztec

[qnr]

24. At the time though, I guess it was ok... all the speed trials going on

on the Bonneville Salt Flats ... I would imagine that's where they got it from

[qnr]

25. Ranchero always annoyed me ... I think that's what it was... that Ford

version of the el Camino

[Bossy Monkey]

26. Daihatsu Charade. Runnerup: Chevy Citation

Have you ever gotten a citation and been happy about it?

[qnr]

27. Yeah, I have, different type of citation though :) know what you mean

however.

[proudbluestater]

28. Definitely the Ford Probe

Wonder how many proctologists owned one.

[fleabert]

29. chevy sprint

my first car, and the one thing it would never ever win would have been a sprint. It's a poor man's yugo. (now that was a clever name!)

[LeftyMom]

30. The Suzuki Esteem

What a dumb name for a car!

The in-laws had one as a rental while visitng a few years back and it was awful. It had no acceleration to speak of and the interior was the worst I've encountered since the yugo.

ETA: Oh, and the Ford Granada. We always called my dad's the granade. We were proved right when the POS spontaneously combusted.

[theorist]

31. That's hilarious! n/t

[Dees]

32. REO Speedwagon

[Pert_UK]

33. Toyota Starlet (I drive one) - VW Sharan - Mitsubishi Starion...

legeng has it that the Starion was supposed to be the Stallion, but somebody misheard...

P.

[terrya]

34. Cadillac Escalade.

What the fuck is an "escalade", anyway?