The 29 Funniest Car Names

Volugrafo Bimbo is probably the most aggressive thing to leap from Saturday morning cartoons into post-war Italian driveways.The Bimbo is cute.This is the thing that jumped from Saturday morning cartoons into bombed-out driveways of post-war Italian car buyers. It looks like a full-sized toy car, but the manufacturer...Volugrafo believed their Bimbo would get Italians driving again. They failed. This car made history: it was the only cute, red-headed bimbo on Earth.This car couldn't get Italian men moving.This car couldn't get Italian men moving.

The Suzuki Every/Scrum Joypop Turbo is compact, lightweight, mid-engine, and four-wheel-drive. This setup sounds like a rally car.The standard Every compact (kei) minivan lacked a turbo. Buyers paid a few yen more for a blower and a Joypop badge on the fender. Suzuki renamed this minivan the Scrum later, which makes you wonder if they were scraping the bottom of the barrel.The standard Every compact (kei) minivan lacked a turbo. Buyers paid a few yen more for a blower and a Joypop badge on the fender. Suzuki renamed this minivan the Scrum later, which makes you wonder if they were scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Mazda maybe meant to call their special edition Carol hatchback "M'Lady." That makes sense. This car won a Tony for looking like a song from The Sound of Music.The Carol Me Lady wins a Tony for resembling a ballad from The Sound of Music.The Carol Me Lady earns extra honors. It is the only car whose name forms a complete sentence. That is a fact.

Meet the Life Dunk. Honda named their compact kei car after a good Eddie Murphy movie.The Life Dunk is named after an Eddie Murphy movie.Honda puts the Dunk badge on turbocharged models. This makes even less sense than Nissan calling their turbo cars Joypops.

Mazda offers the Titan Dump or Light Dump. Come to Mazda to assess your load and pick one.

Sold as the Honda Jazz and Isuzu Rodeo, this SUV is called the MU in Japan. Isuzu claimed the name MU stood for "Mysterious Utility." Isuzu called it the MU Wizard before dropping the MU and leaving Wizard. During that time, it was the...The Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard Rodeo Moo-Cow. This is not true. But the MU (read as "Moo") may have inspired the Rodeo name.

Erich Bitter's small-volume sports cars were impressive. However, CD has a specific meaning in America, making this car technically a Bitter Compact Disc.

If this car does not rank next to the Titan Dump, the outcome is unknown.

Toyota designed this mini-transport's square hatch for young men hauling Reuben sandwiches around Tokyo.

Some day, you might wake up transformed into a Brazilian named.João do Amaral Gurgel dreams of building his nation's first car company. He plans to construct fiberglass buggy-type vehicles on Volkswagen floorpans. If your last name is Gurgel and you end up in that spot, that is.Gurgel BR-800 is listed in 'The 29 Funniest Car Names'.Then for God's sake,Do not name the company after yourself.Name the company after yourself.

The Princess name dates back to 1957. It remains one of the company's most storied badges. By the 1970s model (pictured), it showed a longer side. It was also the first car with hidden windshield wipers. This model used the engine from the BMC ADO17 Landcrab, the corporate sister vehicle with a funnier name.

Dinarg(din-ARGH): This is the sound someone might make in 1962 after receiving a car bought sight unseen from Argentina.DINAARRGGHHHH!!!!!

Pakistan-based Master Motors builds heavy-duty trucks and buses. The biggest truck is the Mitsubishi-designed Rocket. "Master Rocket" sounds like a name Marvel might use for a crossover between Guardians of the Galaxy and 50 Shades of Grey.Guardians of the Galaxyand50 Shades of Grey.

Riddle: What would you have if Solid Snake drove from New York to L.A. with a Cartoon Network Adult Swim character??

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During the 1970s and '80s, many American makers used captive imports to meet rising demand for smaller, fuel-efficient cars. One such deal brought in an Isuzu mini-truck, which Chevrolet rebranded as the LUV. "Light Utility Vehicle" described the truck well. The Isuzu's home name was the Faster. The Faster was known for being brutally slow. Isuzu's Faster may be the only vehicle in history that made its owner scream its name at the steering wheel.

The Derways Cowboy was the original name for the Mercedes-Benz G-Class knockoff. Two Russian and Chinese automakers tried to make it. The name honors American president George W. Bush.

Known as the Multi, Liberty, and Axxess elsewhere, this compact minivan got the Prairie badge in its Japanese home market. Perhaps they thought it carried kids to soccer practice across the African Savannah. The standard Prairie offered two rows. The Joy model added a third row, making it the Prairie Joy.

"Fit" has many meanings across languages. In English, one meaning is "shaped, toned, or athletic." Another means "spasm, twitch, or tantrum." Calling a car spastic gets a chuckle in English-speaking countries. But in Swedish, "fitte" means "a sharp pain," and "fitta" is a rude term for women's genitalia.

It is 1949. You redesign your new 88 for a futuristic look. It has an automatic transmission. What name conveys that futuristic feel? Yes.

The name sounds like some hideous atomic mutant, a clumsy titan that might fight Godzilla.That name is just a name.This Chinese people carrier's name does not match the Lovecraftian monstrosity it is.

Nissan's flagship rear-drive sports car is the Fairlady back home; they call it the Z-Car. A man needs to drive a "powder blue Fairlady" to proudly say so.

The LaCrosse's name is not funny; in Quebec slang, it means "masturbation," specifically "masturbating teenager." General Motors renamed the Canadian models after a red-faced realization, beating Mitsubishi in the process. Mitsu discovered late that "Pajero" meant the same thing in every Spanish-speaking country.

People know this car as the Sentra, but in Japan, it is always the Sunny.

The Fulvia, made from 1963 to 1976, became one of the greatest Lancia sports cars ever.Lancia sports cars.The Lancia Fulvia was named after a famous Roman road in Italy, like many Lancias. However, in English-speaking countries, "Via Fulvia" suggests a valley between the Mons Aphrodite, adding an innuendo to the name.

This name is right for a car that spent its whole time on Earth pretending it was not worse.It is not worse.It is not worse than the Geo Metro.

Sold in America as the Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth Conquest, the Starion was a great performance car from Mopar-Mitsubishi's Diamond Star Motors era. When it launched in 1982, a rumor spread that the Starion's name came from a wrong overseas phone call. Mitsubishi allegedly planned to call the car the "Stallion."The Starion was.Mitsubishi named it after a mythical stallion called Arion, and its horse-head badge probably did not help.

This is an old car with bad foreign-market badging. The Nova famously breaks down to "no va" in Spanish, which means "Doesn't go."

This Opel was one of Opel's better cars, especially when it became a world-beating rally car in 1981. Still, Ascona does not sound like a rally car; it sounds like something you eat with a mocha latte cappuccino.

This weird name has a reason: It names a tribe of super-bad nomads in the Sahara Desert. The Tuareg, also called the Touareg or Twareg, are admired and feared by fighters worldwide. This does not excuse them spelling their name weirdly or VW using the hard-to-pronounce Touareg variant.