What about the urban legend of the Mitsubishi car naming scheme? First
came the Mitsubishi Colt. They wanted to continue with a horse based
theme... Do the next one was called the Starion.
Starion is Engrish for Stallion.......
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On 15/01/2010, at 4:16 PM, "Quinn, Patrick" <Patrick.Quinn@det.nsw.edu.au
> wrote:
> G'day
>
> Can't understand why someone would call a car 'Sunny' but the Cedric
> was named
> after an Austin Company engineer that was assisting Datsun (Nissan)
> during the
> 1950s and Bluebird I can only suggest came from the Campbell
> family's Bluebird
> series of land (and water) speed record cars.
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Lemon [mailto:glemon@neb.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 4:09 PM
> To: Quinn, Patrick; Healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry- Humour
>
> Nice story Patrick, but how do you explain the inspiration for the
> rousing
> names of Cedric, Sunny, and Bluebird?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Quinn, Patrick" <Patrick.Quinn@det.nsw.edu.au>
> To: "'Mark LaPierre'" <lapierrem@sbcglobal.net>; <healeys@autox.team.net
> >
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry- Humour
>
>
>> G'day Mark
>>
>> It's not so bad when you know the history behind the Fairlady name.
>>
>> When Datsun (Nissan) were searching for a name for their new sports
>> car,
>> the
>> film 'My Fair Lady' was released in cinemas around the world. The
>> CEO of
>> Nissan was besotted by Audrey Hepburn (SIGH!) in the role of Eliza
>> Doolittle
>> and decided to call the car after the film.
>>
>> Better than calling it the Datsun Pygmalion!!!!!!
>>
>> Hoo Roo
>>
>> Patrick Quinn
>> Sydney, Australia
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net
>> [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
>> On Behalf Of Mark LaPierre
>> Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 12:00 PM
>> To: healeys@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry- Humour
>>
>> Those jokes are almost as bad as calling a car a Fairlady.
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