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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7121 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Riley Blue wrote: | There was a diesel powered Peugeot, I forget the model number, and the turbocharged version had the letters TurD on the back.
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I think you're "having us on" with that one.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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Penguin45
Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 382 Location: Padiham
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Riley Blue wrote: | My own Riley must have one of the most unimaginative car names ever: 'One-Point-Five' or, as it appears all too often, '1.5' - does anyone have any idea why it and the 4/68 and 4/72 were given such mediocre names? |
The One Point Five was to differentiate it from the Fifteen Hundred, of course. 4/68 is four cylinder/sixty eight horsepower. It's a nod to the RAC ratings. The pre-war Wolseley 18/85 was 18 RAC hp, but 85 actual hp. But then again, the 'Crab 18/85 stands for 1800cc/85hp.
Simples really. _________________ '67 Wolseley MkI 18/85, '70 Austin MkII 1800 The Landcrab Forum. |
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Riley Blue
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1750 Location: Derbyshire
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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Penguin45 wrote: | Riley Blue wrote: | My own Riley must have one of the most unimaginative car names ever: 'One-Point-Five' or, as it appears all too often, '1.5' - does anyone have any idea why it and the 4/68 and 4/72 were given such mediocre names? |
The One Point Five was to differentiate it from the Fifteen Hundred, of course. 4/68 is four cylinder/sixty eight horsepower. It's a nod to the RAC ratings. The pre-war Wolseley 18/85 was 18 RAC hp, but 85 actual hp. But then again, the 'Crab 18/85 stands for 1800cc/85hp.
Simples really. |
I know what the numbers stand for, that doesn't make them any less unimaginative and mediocre. _________________ David
1963 Riley 1.5
1965 Riley 1.5 |
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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V8 Nutter wrote: | Americans always used to be good at model names. Eldorado, Thunderbird, Impala, Challenger, Bel Air, Mustang. To name a few. Always made the car seem more exotic, fast or powerful than it really was. They seem to have lost that nowadays |
Not sure I totally agree on that. Without going into detail ( a winter project ) I think that the UK names were more "sedate", names that wouldn't frighten the horses. The U.S has long used "exciting names... (I am searching for the term)"
Explorer....... the whole world is your oyster. Escape... The safe world is out there.... Equinox... Comfort and the twice a year Hardware Store. Escalade... does it all when needed. Camaro..... A close friend that GM published as an animal that could to eat Mustangs.
But no one/company is perfect albeit Mondeo is from the Latin for World..
and the car did sell........ but was best left out of a "first encounter", chat up line. But then I have been known for... "my mate borrowed the Supercharged Capri GTI 3.5" |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1735 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Riley Blue wrote: | Penguin45 wrote: | Riley Blue wrote: | My own Riley must have one of the most unimaginative car names ever: 'One-Point-Five' or, as it appears all too often, '1.5' - does anyone have any idea why it and the 4/68 and 4/72 were given such mediocre names? |
The One Point Five was to differentiate it from the Fifteen Hundred, of course. 4/68 is four cylinder/sixty eight horsepower. It's a nod to the RAC ratings. The pre-war Wolseley 18/85 was 18 RAC hp, but 85 actual hp. But then again, the 'Crab 18/85 stands for 1800cc/85hp.
Simples really. |
I know what the numbers stand for, that doesn't make them any less unimaginative and mediocre. |
Unimaginative and mediocre perhaps; but safely inoffensive and unlikely to have a problematic translation in another language. |
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misterbridger
Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Posts: 46
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Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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I heard that the Toyot Starlet was originally going to be called the Toyolet. Say it out loud.... |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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No one seems to have mentioned the Mitsubishi Starion. It was supposed to be Stallion but the Japanese cannot pronounce the letter "l". |
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6330 Location: Derby
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:08 am Post subject: |
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lowdrag wrote: | No one seems to have mentioned the Mitsubishi Starion. It was supposed to be Stallion but the Japanese cannot pronounce the letter "l". |
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1d0mh |
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:47 am Post subject: |
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The one that may top them all is the 1930s Jowett Weasel. (A stoatally gutless sports car.)
I'll get my hat. _________________ Due to the onset of my mid eighties I'm no longer sprightly and rarely seen in my Austin special. I have written a book though. https://amzn.eu/d/7rwRRqL |
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