Names

[cabinetman]

While watching a TV commercial for Chevrolet, I got to thinking of names of vehicles that are names of places, cities, states, both foreign and domestic. Like the Chevrolet Tahoe (Lake Tahoe), Malibu (Malibu, Ca.), etc.

What can you come up with?
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[Hoover]

Hyundai- Tucson and Sante Fe
Dodge- Dakota
Toyota- Tacoma
GM- Denali (Denali Peak-Alaska)
Dodge Trucks of Canada- Fargo

[Ed62]

Buick - Park Avenue

That's all I've got for now. Busy day today.

Ed

[Pappy]

Pontiac - LeMans

Chevy - Biscayne

[Uncle Cracker]

Assuming that we're not limited to current models, Dodge and Ferrari both had "Daytona". Then there's the Plymouth/Chrysler "Sebring". Moving out of Florida, there's the Nissan "Murano", Alfa Romeo "Milano", Buick's "Riviera", "Lucerne" and "Ranier", Suzuki "Reno" and "Verona", Subaru "Baja", Caddy "Seville", and the fictional "Cimarron" and "Eldorado", Chevy's "El Camino", "Corsica" and "Colorado", Porche "Cayman", and Pontiac's had a bunch besides the "Lemans", including, if memory serves, "Bonneville", "Catalina", "Phoenix", "Parisienne" and "Montana". My brain hurts now, so I'll add some more later maybe...

[LinuxRandal]

UncleCracker mentioned Daytona, but I always remember it as Daytona won at Taledega and a Taledega won at Daytona. And I am not a race fan so I may have spelled it wrong.

[leehljp]

Ford Torino
Bel Air
Toyota In this case, the town was named after the car. (The original town name was Koromo-cho.)

[LCHIEN]

chevy monte carlo
dodge aspen

[Uncle Cracker]

I'm baaaack...

Got second wind, so here are a few more that come to mind:

Chrysler "New Yorker", Dodge "Durango", "Monaco" and didn't they have one called the "St. Regis"? Then there is/was the Plymouth "Sapporo", Olds "Calais", Fiat "Bertone", GMC "Yukon" and "Sonoma", Kia "Sedona" and "Rio"...

Puff... puff... puff... catching my breath...

OK, how 'bout Ford's "Fairmont", "Torino" and "Granada" (although I don't know if spelled the same as the actual places), or Mercury's "Montego", "Capri" or "Monterey", or the Lamborghini "Jalpa" (actually for a breed of fighting bull, but from the Jalpa region of Mexico).

Whew! That's all I can think of now, but I'll probably have a couple more later (after the beer wears off)...

[Bruce Cohen]

Brooklyn

Newark

So. Bronx


All Stolen cars

[germdoc]

How many of you live in a town with a car named after it? The Buick La Crosse debuted here a couple of years ago, there was a pretty big ceremony at the local dealership.

On a side note, anyone know where Toyota came up with the "Celica"? Or "Camry"? I had a Celica many years ago and have never been able to figure it out.

[cabinetman]

How many of you live in a town with a car named after it? The Buick La Crosse debuted here a couple of years ago, there was a pretty big ceremony at the local dealership.

On a side note, anyone know where Toyota came up with the "Celica"? Or "Camry"? I had a Celica many years ago and have never been able to figure it out.

From Wikipedia: Celica - The name is ultimately derived from the Latin word coelica (IPA [selika]) meaning "heavenly" or "celestial".

Camry - The name "Camry" comes from a phonetic transcription of the Japanese word kanmuri (冠, かんむり), which means "crown", a tradition started with the Toyota Crown in the 1950's, and continued with the Corolla and Corona, which are also latin words for "crown".
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[Kristofor]

Ford Torino
Bel Air
Toyota In this case, the town was named after the car. (The original town name was Koromo-cho.)

How much did they get for the naming rights? More or less than the local sports team did for their stadium?