Just a fun one I thought up while driving on campus this week. Name a car with a place in its name. Doesn't necessarily have to be a specific place. I'll start: Chevy Malibu
I have a tendency to live in places with car names- my last three stops
Hyundai Tucson
(Dodge) Ram Laramie
Toyota Tacoma
Dodge Monaco
Chevy Monza (town in Italy, more famous for its racetrack)
Kia Sedona
Buick Lacrosse
Dodge Daytona
Cadillac Seville
Chrysler Sebring
Kia Rio
Suzuki Reno
Chrysler New Yorker
Hyundai Santa Fe
Bentley Brooklands
Bentley Mulsanne
Ferrari California
Ferrari America
Maserati Mexico
Pontiac Bonneville
Buick Park Avenue
GMC Yukon
Honda City :p
Ferrari 458 Italia
Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Chevrolet Cheyenne
Suzuki Verona
Chevrolet Colorado
Cadillac Eldorado
Buick Riviera
Pontiac Montana
Mercury Monterey
Mercury Montego
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 19, 2012, 01:14:03 PM
GMC Yukon
There's also the GMC Yukon Denali.
Toyota Corona
Lamborghini Urraco
Lamborghini Jarama
Quote from: Takumi on April 19, 2012, 01:17:14 PM
Honda City :p
As long as we're going towards Japanese micro-car, then I raise you a Mitsubishi Dangan.
I suppose any car marketed under the Mercury brand has a place (the closest planet to the sun) in its name.
the Ferrari 412 is named after US route 412.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on April 19, 2012, 03:19:46 PM
the Ferrari 412 is named after US route 412.
No, US Route 412 was named because they found a trash pile of four chairs and twelve cylindrical oil drums located by a horse ranch.
I named my car after Fucking.
Packard Caribbean
Ford Fairlane (named after Henry Ford's estate)
Chevrolet Bel Air
Chevrolet Biscayne
Plymouth Savoy
Chrysler Windsor
Chrysler Newport
Quote from: formulanone on April 19, 2012, 02:10:38 PM
As long as we're going towards Japanese micro-car, then I raise you a Mitsubishi Dangan.
I was going more for the vagueness of the place rather than specifically a
keijidousha with that. The only other one I know is the Suzuki Cappuccino, notably the only
kei car in Initial D. A few more similarly vague "places" in vehicle names:
Chrysler Town & Country
Ford Country Squire (wagon version of the LTD that ended production in 1991)
Lincoln Town Car
Lincoln Continental
Heck, any Lincoln has a place name in it!
Buick Riviera
There are also a couple low-production JDM Honda Prelude variants that had place names: the Si States in 1990 and the Motegi Edition in the last generation. The Si States had a similar engine to the USDM Si, which was a little less powerful than the B20A used in the normal JDM version. I don't know if the Motegi used the Type-S engine or not.
My family had a Dodge Dakota for a while.
QuoteChrysler New Yorker
If that one qualifies, so does the Pontiac Parisienne
Don't forget that the Cadillac brand was named after the town in Michigan.
So was Pontiac
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 19, 2012, 02:36:09 PM
I suppose any car marketed under the Mercury brand has a place (the closest planet to the sun) in its name.
As do Saturns!
Oldsmobile (Cutlass) Calais
Oldsmobile Aurora
Pontiac Phoenix
Buick LaCrosse
Mike
Buick Lucerne (which makes me think of cottage cheese...gross)
There's also the:
Ford Fairlane (named for Fair Lane, the Ford family estate - now home to Fairlane Town Center)
Ford Fairmont
Ford Torino & Gran Torino
Ford Granada
Mercury Milan
Mercury Montclair
Mercury Turnpike Cruiser :D
Lincoln Versailles
Plymouth Concord
AMC Concord
Plymouth Sapporo
Dodge Aspen
Dodge Durango
Pontiac Laurentian, for the Laurentian mountain range in Quebec.
Chrysler Cordoba (a city in Spain and a city in Argentina)
Dodge Meadowbrook (for the Dodge brothers family estate, model sold in the early 1950s)
Cadillac Calais! The lowest level trim full-sized Cadillac carried this name from the 1965 to the 1976 model years. We had one (a 1966) in my home town someone bought new without a single option. No power seat, no power windows, no A/C, no radio/rear speaker/power antenna...a very strange Cadillac that one was but it was sure pretty!
Rick
Toyota Avalon
Cadillac Eldorado
Mythical places, but still... (there is an Avalon in CA though)
Chevrolet Montenegro
Fiat Torremaggiore
Buick Electra
Toyota Orkney
Toyota Cameroon
Studebaker Golden Hawk
Hyundai Planet Earth
Ford Fjord
Å koda Octavia
Nissan Fuji
Lada Sirdaryo
Datsun 720
Chevrolet Chevy
Quote from: Takumi on April 19, 2012, 06:23:59 PMHeck, any Lincoln has a place name in it!
Wrong, not the Navigator, Aviator, LS or the current MK-Whatever models.
Quote from: Takumi on April 20, 2012, 12:24:14 PM
Toyota Avalon
Cadillac Eldorado
Mythical places, but still... (there is an Avalon in CA though)
There's also an Avalon, NJ; it's along the Jersey Shore.
Quote from: corco on April 19, 2012, 08:54:33 PM
QuoteChrysler New Yorker
If that one qualifies, so does the Pontiac Parisienne
That would also allow the Nash Metropolitan and the Chevy/Geo Metro.
Others not mentioned:
Mercury Park Lane (
Hawaii Five-0's McGarrett's original black sedan)
Ford Galaxie (Austrialia's Galaxy as well)
Ford Mustang GT California Special edition (GT/CS for short)
Quote from: PHLBOS on April 20, 2012, 04:35:31 PM
Quote from: Takumi on April 19, 2012, 06:23:59 PMHeck, any Lincoln has a place name in it!
Wrong, not the Navigator, Aviator, LS or the current MK-Whatever models.
Wrong.
Lincoln is a place name.
Quote from: kphoger on April 20, 2012, 05:24:29 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on April 20, 2012, 04:35:31 PM
Quote from: Takumi on April 19, 2012, 06:23:59 PMHeck, any Lincoln has a place name in it!
Wrong, not the Navigator, Aviator, LS or the current MK-Whatever models.
Wrong. Lincoln is a place name.
But the car company was, like (Louis) Chevrolet, Dodge (Brothers), (Walter P.) Chrysler, (Henry) Ford, and (Ransom E.) Oldsmobile, (Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de) Cadillac (founder of the City of Detroit - Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit), (René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de) LaSalle, Studebaker (founding family), Nash, (J. L.) Hudson, Packard, (David Dunbar) Buick, named for the person, not the places. Pontiac and Oakland (County) were named for the places.