Gather around me, children, & I'll tell you how car companies REALLY got their names. A bunch of automobile engineers & executives were trying to come up with names for their prospective companies. They kept throwing ideas around & finally decided to go with acronyms, based on the quality of their products. Here are some of them:
ACURA
Another Crummy Useless Rotten Automobile
AUDI
Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
Always Unsafe Designs Implemented
BMW
Bought My Wife
Brutal Money Waster
BUICK
Big Ugly Indestructible Car Killer
CADILLAC
Crazy And Demented Idiots Like Large American Cars
CHEVROLET
Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
DODGE
Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere
Don't OverDo Going Electric
FERRARI
Fragile, Expensive Rides Repel All Reasonable Individuals
FIAT
Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
Fix It Again, Tony
FORD
Fast Only Rolling Downhill
First On Recall Day
(backwards) Driver Returns On Foot
HONDA
Hope One Never Dies, Anyway
Had One--Never Did Again
HUMMER
Huge Ugly Mean Mashing Eyesore, Right?
Huge, Usually Male Member Enlargement Replacement
ISUZU
I Sympathize, Unstable Zealots Unite
JEEP
Just Enough Engine Power
Just Expect Excessive Problems
KIA
Kick It Again
LAMBORGHINI
Letting Americans Make Big Overdeveloped Riches Go Hastily Into Nonstop Irrelevance
LAND ROVER
Loud, Agonizing Noisy Drive--Rattles On Virtually Every Road
LINCOLN
Leading In Non-Competent Old Ladies Navigating
LOTUS
Lots of Trouble, Usually Serious
MAZDA
Made After Zero Design Analysis
MITSUBISHI
Mostly In The Shop Undergoing Big Investments, Sometimes Halfway Indefinable.
NISSAN
Needs Imminent Salvage, So Abandon Now
OLDSMOBILE
Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Everyday
PONTIAC
People On Narcotics Think It's A Cadillac
PORSCHE
Proof Of Rich Spoiled Children Having Everything
Pity Only Rich Suckers Can Have 'Em
SAAB
Start Adding Additional Brakefluid
Still Ain't A Beamer
SUBARU
Screwed Up Beyond All Repair, Usually
Showing Unresolved Bitterness Against Road Use
TOYOTA
They Overcharge You On Their Accessories
Taking Over Your Old Transportation, America!
TRIUMPH
This Really Is Unreliable, Man--Please Help!
VOLKSWAGEN
Vehicle Owner's List: Kite String, Wire, Aluminum, Gum, Engine, Nails
VOLVO
Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object
I'm sure you've seen trees on a truck:
but have you ever seen a truck in a tree?
Is your car more like this...
or this?
Got someone who drives you up the wall?
Watch this:
This is my idea of a great car:
This is a VERY funny phone call:
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