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01/24/2005 6:52 PM  
Ever wanted to know what your truck/car/4x4's name stood for?



found at http://media-north.com/4wd/humour.htm - (edited for content/fit (some content added too))



AM General - Apparently My Girth Enables Neophytes to End Rollovers At Last · Hummer - Huge Unwieldy Monster Mashes Every Rock



BMW - Break My Windows / Bought My Wife



Buick - Butt-Ugly Imitation Cadillac Kitsch · Rendezvous - Roads Easily Negotiated Demand Extra Zeal; Vibration Overwhelms Unsuspecting Simpleton



Cadillac - Crashed After Driver Intercepted Low-Level Air Craft · Escalade - Embarrassed Stockbrokers Can Always Lie About Dead Electronics



Chevrolet - Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time / Can hear every valve rattle on long extended trips · Avalanche - After Victims Acquire Lease, Annoying Noises Constantly Heard Everywhere · Blazer - Bought Lemon; A Zillion Electrical Recalls · Silverado - Seized Injectors Lack Velocity; Exciting Roll Abruptly Detains Owner · Suburban - Stretched Useless Blazer Uses Rusty Bolts And Nails · Tahoe - Total Amateur Hates Onerous Electronics / Take A Hike, Or Else



Daihatsu - Damages Axles In Highly Advanced Technical Situations, Unfortunately · Rocky - Rolled Over Cliff; Keep Yanking



Dodge - Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere MOPAR, – Mostly Old Parts And Rust / Miscellaneous Odd Parts Assembled at Random · Dakota - Damned Amateurs, Keep Out of Tough Areas · Durango - Drives Unusually Rough And Never Goes Offroad · Ram - Replace All Motors / Really Awful Mechanicals · Ramcharger - Radiator And Motor Can't Handle A Relatively Gentle Easy Road



Ford - Forget Off Road Driving / Found On Rocks Disabled / Flip Over, Read Directions / or upside down: Driver Returns On Foot / Damaging Rust Overwhelms Frame · Bronco - Body Rust Overwhelms New Car Owner · Escape - Easy Sidehills Can Alter People's Expectations · Excursion - Expansive Xenophiliac's Cursed Urban Ride Slowly Impairs Owner's Neurons · Expedition - Exorbitant Xeroxed Product Embarrasses Driver Incessantly; Tow It Out Now · Explorer - Expansive Xeric Pastures Leave Our Ride Easily Rolled · Ranger - Retarded Accelleration Needlessly Gets Engine Roaring / Reverse And Neutral Gears Explode Rapidly Message to Ford Motors: Stop using the letter "x", I'm running out of words!!



Geo - Gross Exhaust Odour · Tracker - Tough Road Action Creates Knocking Engine Rods



GMC - Got a Mechanic Coming? / Get My Come-along / Garbage Master Cylinder / or upside down: Couldn't Make the Grade / Corroding in My Garage · Denali - Docile Engine Needs A Little Injection · Envoy - Expensive New Vehicle Of Yuppies · Jimmy - Jump Into My Mother's Yacht · Sonoma - Suddenly Overturned Near Old Mainline Access · Yukon - Yelling Usually Keeps Owners Nonviolent



Honda - Had One, Never Did Again · CRV - Crappy Recalled Vehicle / Crying Reveals Victim · Pilot - Painfully Inadequate Loser Overturns Truck



Hyundai - Help! Yells Unimpressed Newbie, Disappointed After Introduction · Santa Fe - Sluggish Automobile Notoriously Tepid And Fools Everyone / Sad Attempt Not Too Advanced, Fails Early



Isuzu - It Slowly Undermines Ziebart's Undercoating · Amigo - Aliens Might Investigate Grabbing One · Rodeo - Rides On Dry Earth Only · Trooper - Towing Recommended Out Of Pitifully Easy Rocks · Vehicross - Very Easy Hill Invites Crazy Roll Over Side Slopes



Jeep - Just Enough Extra Parts / Jinxed Engine Eats Pistons / Jerks Exploring Every Pasture / Joke Electronics Exceptionally Poor / Just Empty Every Pocket · CJ - Cheap Junk / Children's Jeep / Childish Joke / Claim Jumper · Grand Cherokee - Grandmother's Ride Allows No Droop; Can't Hear Expensive Radio Over Knocking Engine and Exhaust · Liberty - Laughable Inferior Box Easily Rolls, Terrifying You · MJ - My Junk / Motor's Junk / Mom's Jeep / Moronic Jerk · Scrambler - Sad Crawl Ratio Always Makes Boring Life Excitingly Real · Renegade - Rolls Easily, Negating Emergency Gear And Destroying Everything · TJ - Tomorrow's Junk / Tow Job / Try Jacking / Transmission Jammed / Total Joke · Wagoneer - Willfully Atrocious Garbage; Obviously No Engineering Expertise Required · XJ - Xeno Junk · YJ - Yesterday's Junk / You Jerk / Yuppy's Jeep · ZJ - Zero Juice / Zoological Joke



Kia - Keep It Away / Killed in Action / Know It All · Sportage - Stupid Psychotic Owner Roasts Transmission And Gets Embarrassed · Land Rover - Laughing At New Driver, Rolled On Very Easy Road · County - Crazily-Overpriced Unit Normally Taxi's Yokels · Defender - Driver Easily Forgets Everything; Normally Disabled on Every Rock · Discovery - Driver Ignorant; Saves Cash to Own a Very Expensive Ride for Yuppies · Range Rover - Replace All New Gears Eventually; Risk Of Violently Exploding Rear



Lincoln - Lousy Incompetent Numbskull Crashes; Obviously Legally Negligent · Navigator - Not A Very Interested Glance At This Overpriced Ride



Mazda - Mindless Automaton Zipping Dangerously Along · MPV - Mind Painfully Vacant · Navajo - Not A Vehicle A Judge Owns · Tribute - Terrifying Roll Into Bushes Ultimately Totalled Exterior



Mercedes - Many Easily Roll & Careen Effortlessly Down Endless Slopes · ML - More Lift / Money Lost / Moronic Loser



Unimog - Uncomfortable Noisy Imposing Monstrosity Often Grinds



Mercury - My Easily-Rolled Car Usually Requires Yanking · Mountaineer - Man Overjoyed Until New Transmission And Injectors Negate Electronics, Exploding Rapidly



Mitsubishi - Mournfully I've Tried Spending Unlimited Bucks; I Still Hate It · Montero - My Overrated New Truck Easily Rolls Over · Pajero - Poorly-Assembled Junk; Engine Replaced Often



Nissan - Now I'm Stuck, Send Another Nissan · Pathfinder - People Assume These High-Flying Idiots Normally Drive Easy Roads · Patrol - Phone A Taxi; Ripped Off Leafs · Hardbody - Happy And Retarded Driver Basically Only Delivers Yuppies · Frontier - Foolish Registered Owner Needs To Investigate Engine Replacement · Murano - Many Unnecessary Repairs Aggravate New Owners · Xterra - Xtreme Terrain Easily Rolls Risky Auto



Oldsmobile - Overpriced Leisurely-Driven Sport-ute, Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment / Oh Look Dear, Some Massive Oil-Burning Idiot's Leaking Everywhere · Bravada - Beats Riding A Very Ancient Dodge Aspen



Pontiac - Parting Out Now, Totaled It After Collision



Saturn - Slow Americans Take Unmarked Roads Nowhere · Vue - Very Ugly Exterior / Very Useless Engine



Subaru - Something Usually Breaks And Renders it Useless · Brat - Beats Riding A Tricycle · Outback - Obviously Useless Transmission Breaks; Air Conditioning Kills



Suzuki - Slid Under Zooming Unimog; Killed Instantly · Grand Vitara - Grossly Restricted Articulation Normally Denotes Very Interesting Time At Rocky Areas · Samurai - Small Automobile Makes Urinals Really Appear Immense · Sidekick - Slow Ineffectual Deathtrap Endangers Kin In Collision Knockout



Willys - We Invariably Like Long Yank Straps / What Incompetent Losers Like, Yes Siree



Toyota - Tipped Over, Yanked Out To Asphalt · Highlander - Hopelessly Incompetent Grandpa Hates Lifts And Needs Daily Energy Ration · Land Cruiser - Lost And Needs Directions, Can't Return Until Idiot Searches Every Road · RAV4 - Really Awful Valueless 4wheeler · Tundra - Totally Uncoordinated New Driver Rolls Always


Rick Webster

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