Re: Modern car names, no LBC

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:51:44 -0400 "Chris King"
<cbking@mail.alum.rpi.edu> writes:
> >
> Then there are the names that are translations. "Tercel" in Japanese 
> supposedly means hawk. Given the car's size, it's more like chicken 
> hawk. ;-) Corolla is a flower, I think. Could be wrong. The the 
> Nissan Stanza. Stanza is a section of poetry, akin to a paragraph of 
> prose...
> 


Don't forget that Nova in Spanish means "no go".   I hear they didn't
sell many Nova's in Mexico.  :-)

Mike Valentine
'88 Fiero GT
'60 Bugeye (maybe?)

 
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