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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK

Hi all

Can we draw up a comprehensive list of car names, that are place names?

To kick off the list, a few off the top of my head:

Riley 9 Monaco

Kaiser Manhattan

Mini Chelsea

I'm sure there are many more obscure and exotic examples out there to add??

RJ
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mikeC · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 6:55 pm Post subject:

Well, there all the Austin Counties: Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, etc, and pre-war they used another range of names, like Windsor, Clifton, Ascot, Cambridge, etc.
And of course, Morris was there with Oxford and Cowley, and later with the Isis (if you are going to include rivers!).
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mikeC · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 6:56 pm Post subject:

...and back with Riley, there was the Mentone and Biarritz.
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4755 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
These are manufacturers rather than models.
Current:-
Bristol.
Caterham
EDIT Rootes75 post below has reminded me that Ford is a place near Bognor
Suffolk

Former:-
Abingdon
Airedale
(Albany)
Alvechurch
Argyll
(Arsenal)
Ascot the maker not the Austin

I put the ( ) round a couple as query places.

That is just the As from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car_manufacturers_of_the_United_Kingdom
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Rootes75 · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:21 pm Post subject:

Could we say the Ford Anglia and also the Fordson Thames.
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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2467 Location: South Cheshire

Ford Capri and Cortina.

Vauxhall Firenza sort of, if you're slightly poor at spelling, or Google or eBay. In that when I search either, I invariably get postcards of old Florence (the city).

Rootes75 · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:56 pm Post subject:

Triumph Dolomite and Toledo..
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7117 Location: Edinburgh

Ford Granada, Taunus
Seat Ibiza, Cordoba, Leon, Alhambra, Arona, Ateca
Bristol
Leyland
Albion
Vauxhall Cresta
Bentley Mulsanne
Bugatti Atlantique
Volga
Cadillac Seville
Suffolk
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK

Opel Olympia perhaps?

RJ
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Rootes75 · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:41 pm Post subject:

Standard Nine Teignmouth..
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Rootes75 · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:23 pm Post subject:

Vauxhall..
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Brian M · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:15 pm Post subject:

Volvo Amazon
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traction39 · Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 399 Location: South Wales

Renault Floride
Holden Calais
Ferrari California / Daytona
Jowett Jupiter (does it count...if so Saturn cars too!)
Plymouth Sapporo
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Riley 9 Special 1932

troutrunner · Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 185 Location: South Lincolnshire

Pre-war Austin's also had names like:-

Colwyn
Eton
Clifton
Burnham
Berkeley
Westminster
Harley
Ascot
Kempton
Newbury
Lichfield
Cambridge
Sherborne
Winsor
York
Goodwood
Norfolk
Chalfont
Ranelagh

And I have probably missed a few, and spellings may be wrong on one or two as well.
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1939 Austin 10.
1955 Austin A30.
1958 Ford 300E van.
1961 Austin A40.
1964 Wolseley Hornet.
1965 Series2a Land Rover.
1968 Wolseley Hornet.
1994 Peugeot 405 Est. 2of.
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Keith D · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:28 am Post subject:

Holden Kingswood - Holden Belmont - Holden Calais - Ford Falcon
All Australian suburbs except Calais of course.

Keith
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