> >Enough with the Saab stories!
Reminds me - My comedy routine on car names used to go
SAAB, the only car name that was onomatopoeic
Subaru, Japanese for "shit-box"
Hyundai - Korean for same
Volvo- means "hates cars" in Swedish (of course it actually means "I
roll" in Latin, a perfect name for the focus of their marketing
program, eh?)
Saturn - same - "hates cars" in English
Buick - rhymes with "puke"
Dodge - named by jaywalkers in Boston (what do we call jaywalkers
here? Targets!)
BMW - in the city of Boston, it meant "Break My Windows"
And then....a true story:
Around 1966, my brother was delivering a Porsche 911 and had his girl
friend following in a 356 to bring him back to the dealership. They
stopped in a country store somewhere in mid-Tennessee to get gas,
pulling up to the pumps one behind the other. The attendant filled
both cars, but walked back and forth looking at what was probably the
first Porsches he had ever seen. When he was getting paid, he
commented to my brother - "Well you must be driving the front Porch
and she's driving the back Porch."
Have I insulted enough people's intelligence for today?
Regards, Jim
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