Manufacturer trivia.

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i can post what i please. half of the **** on gtp is misinformation and kiddie opinions anyways.

..... it seems like you have been giving me a lot of suggestions lately.
 
Originally posted by advanR
i can post what i please. half of the **** on gtp is misinformation and kiddie opinions anyways.

..... it seems like you have been giving me a lot of suggestions lately.
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Too bad one of them wasn't "go away." So allow me . . .
 
Originally posted by advanR
i can post what i please. half of the **** on gtp is misinformation and kiddie opinions anyways.

..... it seems like you have been giving me a lot of suggestions lately.
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Absolutely right you can (well, within reason obviously... :D). And everyone else can post what they please (again within reason) in response to that.

If you want to post a fallacy, I am entitled to correct it. If I post a fallacy, YOU are entitled to correct it. If you don't like that, I don't care.
 
Originally posted by advanR
jesus christ. how dare I state something that has to do with japanese from past past memory thinking nobody would notice if it was incorrect, .....at GTP.
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Originally posted by advanR
i can post what i please. half of the **** on gtp is misinformation and kiddie opinions anyways.

..... it seems like you have been giving me a lot of suggestions lately.
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Way to get worked up over nothing. :odd: Chill out.. he was just correcting you.


///M-Spec
 
Originally posted by advanR
..... it seems like you have been giving me a lot of suggestions lately.
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this does not seemed worked up to me. the only reason it might, is because of the asteriks in the previous sentence. my grandmother uses that word, hoodie hoo.
 
On reflection, I've given you no "suggestions" lately. I've called you an idiot for railing against "imports", then saying how great the E30 M3 is (which it is. But it's still an import), but other than that, nothing.

Anyway. Back on topic.

Lancia - named after founder Vicenzo Lancia.
 
Do people not understand what "import" means? It means a car that is IMPORTED from the home country of its manufacturer to A DIFFERENT COUNTRY for purchase.

So YES all BMWs are imports unless you live in Germany!
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
So YES all BMWs are imports unless you live in Germany! [/B]
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Unless you live in the US of A and buy an X5, which is built in South Carolina. Then its a domestic :D If you live in Germany and buy one, its an import.

Seriously, though... its still an import regardless of where it is assembled because a majority of its parts come from overseas. That's why a Camry built in Kentucky is still an import.


///M-Spec
 
Hence my point in specifying "the home country of its manufacturer" rather than saying "where it was built". I don't consider the country where the line workers swing their air wrenches to be the identifying location - I mean where the checks get cashed and the upper management lives.
 
Carl Benz invented the gasoline powered car in 1886. Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach started building cars in 1890. Emile Jellinek, who helped finance the new company, is responsible for the name. Mercedes was the daughter of Emile Jellinek. In 1926 Mercedes & Benz merged into Mercedes-Benz.
 
Lambo, indeed, was a farm equipment constructor before it began producing Ferrari-beating supersportsters. Some of the names of the Lambo cars are inspired in bullfighting paraphernalia, as Miura, a BIG, DAMN BIG race of bulls, one of wich killed all-time greatest Bull fighter Manolete. The name of this Miura was Islero, another lambo. Espada is spanish for sword, Jarama is also related to it, but I don't remember how...
 
Kaiser-Willys, of original Jeep fame, made a car called the 'Henry J' that was ordered and delivered through the Sears catalog.
 
Cano
Lambo, indeed, was a farm equipment constructor before it began producing Ferrari-beating supersportsters. Some of the names of the Lambo cars are inspired in bullfighting paraphernalia, as Miura, a BIG, DAMN BIG race of bulls, one of wich killed all-time greatest Bull fighter Manolete. The name of this Miura was Islero, another lambo. Espada is spanish for sword, Jarama is also related to it, but I don't remember how...
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Whereas "Countach" comes from the Piedmontese dialect of Italian, and mean "**** me!".

Presumably uttered when you see a half-ton mass of meat with horns coming at you.
 
Famine
Whereas "Countach" comes from the Piedmontese dialect of Italian, and mean "**** me!".

Presumably uttered when you see a half-ton mass of meat with horns coming at you.
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I think the more commonly used translation for Countash is "wow". But its however you want to interpret it!! :lol: 👍
 
neon_duke
Kaiser-Willys, of original Jeep fame, made a car called the 'Henry J' that was ordered and delivered through the Sears catalog.
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Kaiser-Frazer made the Henry J.

Willys-Overland hadn't been acquired until 1953, three years after Kaiser-Frazer had started selling the Henry J.
 
milefile
These are some explanations for auto manufacturer names. I didn't know some of these so I figured maybe somebody else didn't know, too.

  • Alfa Romeo: Societa Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili,or The Lombardy Automobile Manufacturing Company. The ALFA part of the name originated from the first letters of the original name of the group. Romeo came from the business man who later took over.
  • Audi: In 1910 founder August Horch translated his surname (the German word for "hark!") into Latin to get around a dispute about company names (with the company he had founded in 1899 that still bore his name after he had left it).
  • Buick: David Dunbar Buick
  • Cadillac: Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a French adventurer and explorer who founded Detroit in 1701 as a military post and trading center. The Henry Ford Motor Co. (Henry Ford's original company) had been left high and dry with Henry Ford walking out on his financial backers, Henry Leland was trying to sell his new motor design (rejected by Oldsmobile), the board at Henry Ford Motor Co. accepted the motor and started Cadillac Motor Co.
  • Chevrolet: Louis and Arthur Chevrolet - William Durant got them from a French Racing Team.
  • Chrysler: Walter P. Chrysler
  • Citroen: Andre Citroen
  • Corvette: Some type of small fast battleship.
  • Datsun: DAT was building a second-generation car called Son-of-Dat, or Datson (the DAT stood for initials of the founders, Den, Aoyama and Takeuchi). The car's name was changed to Datsun in 1932 to tie in with the Rising Sun of Imperial Japan.
  • Dodge: John and Horace Dodge - The Dodge Brothers
  • FIAT: Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino, or The Italian Automobile Manufacturers of Turin.
  • Holden: 1856 - Begins as J.A Holden & Co, saddlery business, Adelaide, South Australia.
  • Honda: Soichiro Honda...
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  • You forgot:
  • Hyundai, which means "Modern" or "Current" in Korean.
 
Firebird
Kaiser-Frazer made the Henry J.

Willys-Overland hadn't been acquired until 1953, three years after Kaiser-Frazer had started selling the Henry J.
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... and the version sold through Sears stores was called the "Sears Allstate".

:)
 
Firebird
... and the version sold through Sears stores was called the "Sears Allstate".

:)
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...and I knew all that, I just was mightily confused that day. Thanks for correcting me.
 
Quick_Nick
The name Camaro is based on the word camarade, which is French for comrade.
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The word Camero is made up, even the camero history books say that.
 

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