Your Say Top 10 Cars That Should Be Renamed There was a time when most automakers actually bothered to give their vehicles real names. Cars had elegant names like Continental and Fleetwood, while trucks had tough-sounding names like Bronco and Ram. More often than not nowadays cars get named random alphanumeric characters like FX50 and Z4 sDrive35is.
Your Say Top 10 Cars That Should Be Renamed
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| Your Say Top 10 Cars That Should Be Renamed |
Your Say Top 10 Cars That Should Be Renamed
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| Your Say Top 10 Cars That Should Be Renamed |
Your Say Top 10 Cars That Should Be Renamed
Last week we asked readers in a Thread of the Day which new cars should be renamed. Today, we’re sharing with you 10 of our favorites from your suggestions. Here are your picks:
One car that showed up a few times in the comments was the Acura RLX. Readers pointed out that Acura’s nomenclature had no easily understandable logic to it, and that the luxury brand once had good names like Legend and Integra.
The 2014 BMW 4 Series was another car mentioned more than once. Though the reasoning behind changing the name of the two-door 3 Series to the 4 Series may be sound, some feel there’s too much heritage behind the 3 Series name to make the change. “Renaming the 3 Series Coupe the 4 Series was a stupid idea,” said –i4Collin-.
The Cadillac XTS and ATS also made the list. “Cadillac has a rich history of names to choose from, but they ignore it and go with alphanumeric names,” said Kavman, who also pointed out that the CTS name has become somewhat iconic within the brand.
The 2014 Chevrolet SS generated some comments, too. Many thought GM was cheapening the “SS” brand (traditionally a high-performance trim level) by naming a car after it. “Chevy SS is a cop-out,” wrote BlackDynamiteOnline, “There are like 30 Chevys with the SS moniker somewhere on them, past and present. The car is as generic as the name.” Suggested alternative names to the 2014 SS included the Impala SS (as a follow up to the mid-’90s version), Caprice, Biscayne, and Bel Air.
Similarly, commenters had a problem with names like Lincoln MKZ. Just like Cadillac, some felt that Lincoln had too rich of a history to rely on meaningless alphabet soup for names. “Lincoln needs real names for its cars,” said Dan Murphy, “The alphabet soup is lame – so much redundancy.” Many want Lincoln to bring back the Continental, Town Car, and Mark names.
One commenter said the McLaren 12C needed to be renamed…again, perhaps to something that isn’t reminiscent of a fax machine.
Though the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG name comes from Mercedes tradition, the general consensus was that the numbers in the automaker’s names should reflect the displacement of the engine, as they once did. Thus, the 5.5-liter twin-turbo V-8-powered E63 would become the E55 AMG, and the 6.2-liter V-8-powered C63 would become the C62.
The Scion FR-S appeared in the comments section as well. The most common suggestions from commenters were to rebadge it as a Toyota and name it the GT86 or the Celica.
The Tesla Model S is one of two cars on this list that doesn’t actually have an alphanumeric naming scheme. The main complaint, from MistyJ, was that the name “doesn’t have much personality.”
Like the Tesla, the Volkswagen Tiguan doesn’t have random letters for a name, but readers still don’t like it. “Tiguan” is a made-up word (a combination of “Tiger” and “Iguana”).
One car that showed up a few times in the comments was the Acura RLX. Readers pointed out that Acura’s nomenclature had no easily understandable logic to it, and that the luxury brand once had good names like Legend and Integra.
The 2014 BMW 4 Series was another car mentioned more than once. Though the reasoning behind changing the name of the two-door 3 Series to the 4 Series may be sound, some feel there’s too much heritage behind the 3 Series name to make the change. “Renaming the 3 Series Coupe the 4 Series was a stupid idea,” said –i4Collin-.
The Cadillac XTS and ATS also made the list. “Cadillac has a rich history of names to choose from, but they ignore it and go with alphanumeric names,” said Kavman, who also pointed out that the CTS name has become somewhat iconic within the brand.
The 2014 Chevrolet SS generated some comments, too. Many thought GM was cheapening the “SS” brand (traditionally a high-performance trim level) by naming a car after it. “Chevy SS is a cop-out,” wrote BlackDynamiteOnline, “There are like 30 Chevys with the SS moniker somewhere on them, past and present. The car is as generic as the name.” Suggested alternative names to the 2014 SS included the Impala SS (as a follow up to the mid-’90s version), Caprice, Biscayne, and Bel Air.
Similarly, commenters had a problem with names like Lincoln MKZ. Just like Cadillac, some felt that Lincoln had too rich of a history to rely on meaningless alphabet soup for names. “Lincoln needs real names for its cars,” said Dan Murphy, “The alphabet soup is lame – so much redundancy.” Many want Lincoln to bring back the Continental, Town Car, and Mark names.
One commenter said the McLaren 12C needed to be renamed…again, perhaps to something that isn’t reminiscent of a fax machine.
Though the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG name comes from Mercedes tradition, the general consensus was that the numbers in the automaker’s names should reflect the displacement of the engine, as they once did. Thus, the 5.5-liter twin-turbo V-8-powered E63 would become the E55 AMG, and the 6.2-liter V-8-powered C63 would become the C62.
The Scion FR-S appeared in the comments section as well. The most common suggestions from commenters were to rebadge it as a Toyota and name it the GT86 or the Celica.
The Tesla Model S is one of two cars on this list that doesn’t actually have an alphanumeric naming scheme. The main complaint, from MistyJ, was that the name “doesn’t have much personality.”
Like the Tesla, the Volkswagen Tiguan doesn’t have random letters for a name, but readers still don’t like it. “Tiguan” is a made-up word (a combination of “Tiger” and “Iguana”).
