I've been noticing lately that the names, styles and generality of cars are becoming quite similar.

For example:
(And i know it's just Honda right now)

After the Avalanche came out the Ridgeline came.

Now the Crossfire has a similar twin, the Crosstour.

I've just seen how these companies engineers are becoming lazy and stretching out, shrinking, adding back seats, and just the naming becoming so lazy.

meh.


Post what you've noticed.

Better than just sticking their badge on it, I say.

I've also seen a few names reused by different manufacturers, like the Dodge Durango (Chevy used to sell an S-10 Durango), and the Chevy Trailblazer (Toyota used to sell a Trailblazer)

Posted by bandi I've also seen a few names reused by different manufacturers, like the Dodge Durango (Chevy used to sell an S-10 Durango), and the Chevy Trailblazer (Toyota used to sell a Trailblazer)

when toyota makes a road master we are all dead!

Its nothing new. First there was the Ranchero then the El Camino. Mustang then Camaro. I don't blame a company for comming up with an answer to the competition.

Chevy had a name contest for the members of J-body.org and one of the Delta-body or Ecotec Forums to name the Cobalt before it was released. No one really liked the name Cobalt and the two names that got the most votes were "Corsair" and "Chevelle".
Chevy went with Cobalt anyway.
goofy name... good car, though.
I thought Corsair would've been a killer name for a car.

How did that name come about, what is a cobalt?

Cobalt: a silver-white metallic element with a faint pinkish tinge, occurring in compounds whose silicates afford important blue coloring substances for ceramics.

Why?

Names used to have meaning, some history too them. I mean Corsair is good, it's a fighter plane from back in the day.

Now it's for the most part two words slung together, or something just completely made up.

Camry? what the hell is that?

Camry means Crown, and it's also an anagram for "My Car"
Corolla - Little Crown
Tercel - One Third
(And the tercel was originally a Corolla Tercel)

So a tercel is one third of a little crown.

As for similarities, remember when the New Beetle came out? Then the new T-Bird, then the PT Cruiser, then the SSR, and the Mini, and the.... retro everywhere.

There are some retro names that SHOULD be resurrected. Take a lesson from Ford having rebranded an existing car to a Taurus

Supra
Bel-Air
Nomad
Tempo/Topaz
Chevette

all cars that served very well in the marketplace and have a recognizable brand name

Tempo was like its spare. Do not exceed 45mph or 60 miles.

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! when toyota makes a road master we are all dead!

Funny you mention. Remember a few years ago when the Toyota pickups, the small ones, had a grill that was a near total shrunken copy of the old '49ish Buick Roadmaster? It just looked so obviously a copy. Only a year or two, on the Tacoma. What were they thinking?

VW started the modern retro thing with the New Beetle. I wish the hell they had chased it with the uber awesome California designed New Microbus. Am betting it would have outsold the New Beetle. Just like films, everyone copies each other.
Caravan, then the Venture, PT cruiser, then that HDR thing or whatever it's called.

We need a 50's Citroen school of thinking again, do something different already. (Even if it's whacked, whacked is often genius when the drones finally get it) Still, there's some awesome vehicles done in the last 20 years, Toyota Previa for example

Camray is like Camay soap, sort of. The Ford Contour could have been a feminine hygiene product, the name and shape any way. Sorry, but they O'Deed on the oval for a while there, dashboard, grill, rear window...

I like the name Cobalt, could be the start of a mess of mineral named cars. 'The new Zircon is looking quite exciting'. Corsair was also a motorhome, kind of a stretch from the WW2 fighter plane. End rant

there is only on volkswagen I would ever want to see in production again:

CORRADO.

Toyoya is supposed to be re-releasing the Supra, As a hybrid..

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Posted by Samurai there is only on volkswagen I would ever want to see in production again: CORRADO.

OOOh good call

i'd add to it a GOOD version of a Scirocco, and maybe a retro VW van not a Caravan with German extras

while we are resurecting names, what about the old mopars, say what you will about chrysler (ive always hated chrysler as a gm guy) but the challenger in looks beats the pants off the new camaro any day! and well i still thing the viper should have been named the barracuda

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! w but the challenger in looks beats the pants off the new camaro any day!

you, sir, have lost your mind.

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! while we are resurecting names, what about the old mopars, say what you will about chrysler (ive always hated chrysler as a gm guy) but the challenger in looks beats the pants off the new camaro any day! and well i still thing the viper should have been named the barracuda

i agree. sorry sam. the camaro has hips like a bull-dyke, a hooked nose, and its ass looks unfinished. and to me, it's too retro-futuristic instead of just retro.

I agree sam.






Hands down the Camaro.

Looks like Al Bundy would like the challenger.

you're all fucked in the head.