Random Funniest Car Names Ever Coined (29 items)

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  (#1) Volugrafo Bimbo

  Probably the most aggressively cute thing ever to leap from Saturday morning cartoons and into the bombed-out driveways of post-war Italian car buyers. It might look like a full-sized toy car, but manufacturer Volugrafo thought their Bimbo would get Italians moving again. They were wrong. But this car did make history for being the only cute, red-headed bimbo on Earth that couldn't get Italian men moving. 
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  (#2) Suzuki Every/Scrum Joypop Turbo

  Compact, lightweight, mid-engine, turbocharged four-wheel-drive. Sounds like a recipe for a fantastic rally car, doesn't it? It probably would be, if the vehicle in question hadn't been the Every compact (kei) minivan. The standard model didn't come with a turbo, but for a few yen more buyers got both a blower and a Joypop badge on the fender. While the Every Joypop name is amusing, you have to wonder if Suzuki was scraping the bottom of the barrel when they later renamed this minivan the Scrum. 
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  (#3) Mazda Titan Dump and Light Dump

  Looking for a tough, versatile cargo carrier to haul your lumber, flooring, or plumbing fixtures? Come on down to Mazda, assess your load, and take your pick of the Titan Dump or Light Dump.
  
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  (#4) Honda Life Dunk

  • Honda

  Meet the Life Dunk. The Life name itself isn't too weird; at least Honda had the sense to name their compact kei car after a good Eddie Murphy movie, even one about prison. Honda applies the Dunk badge to turbocharged models, which somehow makes even less sense than Nissan calling their turbo cars Joypops.
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  (#5) Mazda Carol Me Lady

  Maybe Mazda meant to call their special edition Carol hatchback "M'Lady." That would almost make sense. But this one - yeesh. Apart from winning a Tony for resembling a ballad from The Sound of Music, the Carol Me Lady goes home with additional honors for being the only car of all time whose name forms a complete sentence. Fact.  
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  (#6) Daihatsu Scat

  If this one doesn't end up permanently ranked right next to the Titan Dump, I don't know what will. 
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  (#7) Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard MU

  Sold in different markets as the Honda Jazz and Isuzu Rodeo, this iconic little SUV is known as the MU in Japan. When asked why they apparently consulted dairy bovine to name their SUV, Isuzu said the title was an acronym that stood for "Mysterious Utility." Isuzu called it the MU Wizard for a while, before dropping the MU and leaving Wizard. But, during that period of time, it was the Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard Rodeo Moo-Cow. All right, it wasn't. But there is a distinct possibility that the MU (read as "Moo") really did inspire the Rodeo moniker. 
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  (#8) Bitter CD

  To be fair, the sports cars produced in small volumes by racer-turned-automaker Erich Bitter were pretty impressive. Unfortunately, CD already stands for something pretty specific in America, and that makes this car, technically, a Bitter Compact Disc.
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  (#9) Toyota Deliboy

  Presumably, Toyota designed this mini-transport's square hatch for a huge demographic: all those young men hauling Reuben sandwiches around Tokyo.
  
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  (#10) Princess

  • Austin, Morris, British Leyland Motor Corporation, Wolseley, Princess

  The Princess name goes back to 1957, and it's actually one of the most storied badges in the company. But by the time the 1970s model (pictured here) came about, it was known mostly for being longer on one side than the other, and for being the first car with hidden windshield wipers. It also featured the engine from its even more hilariously named corporate sister, the BMC ADO17 Landcrab.
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  (#11) Dinarg D200

  Dinarg (din-ARGH): The sound one might have made in 1962 after having taken delivery of a car bought sight unseen from Argentina. DINAARRGGHHHH!!!!!
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  (#12) Gurgel BR-800

  • Gurgel

  Some day, you may awake to find yourself magically transformed into a Brazilian -- a Brazilian named João do Amaral Gurgel, who dreams of creating his nation's first car company by building fiberglass buggy-type things atop Volkswagen floorpans. Nothing wrong with that. But if you do find yourself in that situation, and your last name is Gurgel, then for God's sake, don't name the company after yourself. 
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  (#13) Master Rocket

  Pakistan-based Master Motors assembles heavy-duty trucks and buses, the biggest of which is the Mitsubishi-designed Rocket. Fair enough. Though "Master Rocket" does sounds like a name that might come up if Marvel managed a crossover between Guardians of the Galaxy and 50 Shades of Grey.
  
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  (#14) Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear

  Riddle for you: What would you have if video game hero Solid Snake were to drive from New York to L.A., along with a character from Cartoon Network's Adult Swim?

  Give up?

  Space Gear Coast to Coast. 
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  (#15) Chevrolet LUV

  • General Motors, Chevrolet

  Back in the 1970s and '80s, a lot of American manufacturers turned to captive imports to meet a quickly exploding demand for smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles. The result of one such arrangement was the importation of an Isuzu mini-truck, which Chevrolet re-branded the LUV. It's silly, but at least "Light Utility Vehicle" pretty accurately described what the truck was. Less so the Isuzu's home market name, the Faster. Known primarily for being brutally slow, Isuzu's Faster at least gets credit for being probably the only vehicle in history to ever cause its owner to furiously scream its name at the steering wheel. 
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  (#16) Derways Cowboy

  The result of two Russian and Chinese automakers' attempts to produce a knockoff of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class. So named in honor of American president George W. Bush, the original Derways Cowboy.
  
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  (#17) Nissan Prairie Joy

  Known as the Multi, Liberty, and Axxess in other markets, this compact minivan got the Prairie badge in its Japanese home market. Maybe they imagined it ferrying kids to soccer practice across the African Savannah. The standard Prairie came with two-row seating, but the Joy model got a third row, making it the Prairie Joy. 
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  (#18) Oldsmobile Futuramic

  It's 1949: You're redesigning your new 88 for a futuristic look, and it's got an automatic transmission. Hmmm...what to call it in order to convey that futuristic feel? Oh, yes.

  FUTURAMIC!
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  (#19) Honda Fit

  • Honda

  "Fit" means a lot of things in different languages. In English, one meaning is "shaped, toned or athletic." Another is "spasm, twitch or tantrum." Calling your car spastic is worth a chuckle or two in English-speaking countries. But in Swedish, "fitte" means "a sharp pain," and "fitta" means...uhhh..."a derogatory term for women's genitalia."
  
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  (#20) Nissan Fairlady

  We know it as the Z-Car, but Nissan's flagship rear-drive sports car has always been the Fairlady back home. Say what you will, but it takes a comfortable man to proudly proclaim that he drives a "powder blue Fairlady."
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  (#21) Buick LaCrosse

  • General Motors, Buick

  There's nothing funny about the LaCrosse's name - except that in Quebec slang, it means "masturbation." Or more specifically, "masturbating teenager." After a red-faced realization, General Motors renamed the Canadian models, managing to make out a bit better than Mitsubishi. Mitsu discovered too late that "Pajero" meant the same thing in every single Spanish-speaking country.
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  (#22) Lancia Fulvia

  • Lancia

  Produced from 1963 to 1976, the Fulvia was one of the greatest Lancia sports cars of all time, and was named, like a lot of Lancias, after a famous Roman road in Italy. But in English-speaking countries, "Via Fulvia" brings to mind a certain valley that runs between the Mons Aphrodite, lacing this name with innuendo.
  
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  (#23) SsangYong Rodius

  • SsangYong

  The name sounds like some kind of hideous atomic mutant, the kind of clumsy titan that might battle Godzilla. And yet, even that name doesn't quite do justice to the Lovecraftian monstrosity that is this Chinese people carrier. 
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  (#24) Mitsubishi Starion

  • Mitsubishi

  Also sold in America as the Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth Conquest, the Starion was one of several fantastic performance cars to come out of Mopar-Mitsubishi's Diamond Star Motors era. When it was introduced in 1982, a rumor began circulating that the Starion's name was the result of an overseas phone call gone wrong. Story has it, Mitsubishi intended to call this car the "Stallion." The fact that this car actually was named for a mythical stallion called Arion, and that its badge was a horse's head probably didn't help matters any. 
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  (#25) Daihatsu Charade

  • Daihatsu

  An entirely appropriate name for a car that spent its entire time on Earth pretending not to be somehow worse than the Geo Metro. 
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  (#26) Nissan Sunny

  • Nissan, Datsun

  You undoubtedly know this car as the Sentra, but in Japan, it's always been the Sunny.
  
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  (#27) Chevrolet Nova SS

  • Chevrolet

  An oldie but a goodie, one of the older examples of foreign-market badging gone wrong. Nova famously breaks down to "no va" in Spanish. Translation: "Doesn't go."
  
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  (#28) Opel Ascona

  • General Motors, Opel

  Actually, this was one of the better cars in Opel's history, particularly when it was transformed into a world-beating rally car in 1981. Still, Ascona doesn't really sound like a rally car. It sounds like something you'd eat with a mocha latte cappuccino.  
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  (#29) Volkswagen Touareg

  • Volkswagen

  This weird car name at least has a reason for being weird: It's the name of a tribe of super-bad nomads living in the Sahara Desert. Known for their toughness, ingenuity and fierce independence, the Tuareg (also know as the Touareg or the Twareg) are admired and feared by fighters the world over. Still, doesn't excuse them ferriners fer spellin' their name so weird, or VW for using the unpronounceable Touareg variant.
  

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