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GMC used to be Gotta Mechanic Coming.

Not a car company name, but sorta the same theme. Lee Iacocca. I Am Chairman Of Chrysler Corporation America.

BMW - Big Money Wasted - Blinkers Mean What

Ford - F'ing Old Rebuilt Dodge

Honda - Horsepower Option Never Did Appear - Had One Never Did Again

Jaguar - Just Another Gearbox Under Another Repair

Jeep - Just Expect Excessive Problems

Kia - Korean Idiot's Attempt

Oldsmobile - Old Ladies Driving Slowly Making Others Behind Incessantly Late Everyday

Tenfo Main.

Pontiac - poor old ngger thought its a cadillac.

FORD spelled backwards:

Driver Returns On Foot

I can still remember an acronym for most car brands
foreign and domestic that I leaned in grade school.

German Milk Cow

CHEVROLET

Cheap
Heap
Every
Valve
Rattles
Oil
Leaks
Every
Time


GMC

Great
More
Crap

GMC - Generic Made Chevy

CHEVROLET - Cheap Hardly Efficient Runs On Luck Every Time

JEEP - Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan

JEEP

Just
Expect
Expensive
Problems

Jeep - Just Empty Every Pocket

Dodge - Daily Overhauls Do Get Expensive

VW - Virtually Worthless

What about Toyota?

If you can’t Dodge it, Ram it!

GMC, general mess of crap

Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto

I you rearrange the letters in "Land Rover" it spells "every gasket, seal, and flange will fail and leak"

For those of you with British autos experience:
Lucas is an acronym for Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices.
The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark."
Lucas is the patent holder for the short circuit.
Lucas - Inventor of the first intermittent wiper.
Lucas - Inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.
The three position Lucas switch - Dim, Flicker and Off.
The Original Anti-Theft Device - Lucas Electrics.

the story I heard years ago (apologies if this no longer conforms to sensitivity to the inappropriateness of ethnic-oriented stereotypes) was that a Japanese auto company was going to enter the US market for the first time and wanted a name that did not sound too "Japanese". They knew the German companies were very successful selling in the US, so they hired a German marketing firm to come up with a good name.

At the big meeting the Japanese management team told about the features of the car and showed pictures etc.

The German marketing team showed examples of previous clients' products, said "Vee vill hahf a university professor evaluate dee vords based on lingvistic compatibility, set up focoos groups in different regions of North America,und test about 10 different names, evaluate dee responses of dee focoos groups, und hahf a psychologist obserf video to see dee facial expressions of dee participants, perform ein trademark search to ensoor der are no oder prodoocts using dat name und present examples of logos und marketing material you can start dee advertizing mit. Ven do you plan to launch dee prodooct?"

The Japanese team said: "Yes..... We will launch on the first of next month!"

The Germans said "Daht Soon?!?"

Mopar
My Old Pig Ain’t Running.

Dodge.
Doddering Old Dudes Get Excited

Honda
Has Only Normal, Dull Attributes

Kia
Korean Idiot's Attempt

Dodge = Dear Old Dad's Garage Experiment

The family last name that started Toyota is spelled Toyoda. So why isn't the car company spelled the same as the family name? Because in Japanese Toyoda uses 8 charters and is considered unlucky in Japanese numerology. So the car company was called Toyota, using 7 charters, with 7 being a lucky number in Japanese numerology.

The only difference is this one isn't made up - it's all true. If you're car shopping and believe that Jesus Christ is our Risen Savior and don't give two schits about numerology, you might want to keep this information in mind.

What about Nissan?