Nope. "Gran Turismo Iniezione" (inny-ets-ee-o-nee), which translates to "Grand Tourer Injection".
GTE is "Einspritzung", which is German for "Injection", but can mean "Estate".
GTO is "Omologato", which is Italian for "Homologation".
GTA is "Alleggerita", which is Italian for "Lightened", but can mean "Automatic".
GTC is "Compressore", which is Italian for "Supercharged", but can mean "Coupe", "Cabriolet", "Compact" and "Crossover".
GTV is "Veloce", which is Italian for "Fast".
For Ford, ST means Sports Technology.
For Merc, SL stands for Sportlich und Leicht or in English sport and light. Then for SLK, K is Kurz as in short. For SLR, R stands for Rennsport meaning racing. Anyone knows what the last "S" means in SLS?
Dodge usually have something like RT or SRT or something. For example, Dodge Challenger SRT-8. Basically, SRT means Street Racing Technology and 8 is the cylinder. RT on the other hand means Racing Technology.
SS: Super Sport
RS: Rally Sport
442: 4-barrel carb, 4-speed manual, 2-exit exhaust
GS: Grand Sport
GN: Grand National
GTO: Gran Turismo Omologato (borrowed directly from Ferrari)
GM also has a bad habit of letting order codes become names for their vehicles. The Z/28 Camaro was an order code that eventually became a model itself, the same can be said of the former Z51 Corvette (an order code that had been around since the '80s).
From what I've seen it's a bad JapLish name that was supposed to convey a young, hip, cool sporty car. I guess coming from Japanese it's translated as "fresh".
MINI's are pretty straight forward:
"S" stands for sport
"D" stands for diesel
"JCW" stands for John Cooper Works
"GP" stands for Gran Prix (apparently)
Not sure if it was the same back then but nowadays it stands for "Experimental Research <number of cylinders>". I think for the European Fords back in the day the number equated more to a size thing rather than cylinders.
