Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Top 10 Worst Car Names

10. The Entire Lincoln Lineup

9. Hyundai Equus

8. Toyota Yaris

There was a girl in my dorm freshman year who organized her shoes alphabetically by mood. She majored in dead languages and responded to every single question with "no worries." She once set the dorm microwave on fire by overcooking a ham-and-cheese Hot Pocket. Yes, that story is ridiculous and nonsensical ... sort of like naming a car Yaris.

7. Kia Forte Koup

6. Subaru B9 Tribeca

5. Volkswagens Touareg

A few Volkswagens could've made this list, but the Touareg was easily the name that tripped up our American mouths the most. Early Touareg commercials in the U.S. even depicted people struggling to say the name. When an automaker has to spend precious time and ad dollars helping consumers learn to pronounce the car's name — something is wrong.

4. Ford Probe

3. Subaru Brat

2. Isuzu VehiCROSS

1. Ford Aspire

By Amanda Wegrzyn, Cars.com

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i guess u've already knew that in japan toyota yaris is known as VITZ , which sounds faaaaaar more better than yaris, right?

and in that country, normally u can see that VITZ is driven by the GOLDEN AGE people, except for the sporty version(manual) la ... :P

hehehe ... no offence babe !!

blackrimmedyaris said...

hi ano,
yeah, i know that Yaris = Vitz, but i cant deny Vitz sounds better than Yaris.

and i dun mind if Vitz/Yaris is driven by the Golden Age or whatever. In Indo, Yaris is everywhere and in fact in Thai, Yaris is just a taxi. But i dun give a shit pon.. ;)

hehehe.. im chill !!