Will They Ever Think First?

[youngmafbog]

Car makers never seem to think before naming a car, the funniest being Vauxhauls Nova - doesn't go in Spanish but here Kia have dropped a right clanger

http://news.sky.com/story/1060546/kias-provo-car-model-angers-unionist-mps

[ummmm]

If I asked my English friends what a 'Provo' is....I doubt they'd have a clue.

[emmie]

i'm English and i know, though i am not convinced some friends would know, including the Irish ones,

[Zeuhl]

I used to know the Marketing Director at Colt/Mitsubishi UK who swore blind that the story behind the naming of their sports saloon; the Starion was absolutely true:

i.e. Executives in Japan wanting it to be named after a virile male horse.

[ummmm]

I wouldn't have paid heed. It depends how it's pronounced.

[modeller]

Many moons ago the cough lozenges called Zubes had the advertising slogan, " Go suck a Zube " unfortunately in Arabic that is the name of the male appendage. I remember the Arabs found it highly amusing. As indeed we did who had a mongel knowledge of the language, but the company didn't catch on for several months. I don't know how it affected their sales.

[Hopkirk]

I remember there used to be a biscuit to aid slimming called Ayds.

Funny, but you can't buy them any more.

[Zeuhl]

We can now clean our homes with Cif

Time was, it was just an abbreviation for a type of STI

[modeller]

I've already posted this but it's disappeared.
However what I said was " In 1965 Rolls Royce named their car Silver Mist
but in German Mist translates as Dung/Manure/Muck.

[Duncer]

I want it decommissioned.

[Zeuhl]

Will their replacement model be The Real Kia