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i never can understand the reasoning behind the auto industry's rationale for naming cars.

now, some names, like Cutlass, Le Sabre, Grand National, they make sense.

but then you take... Mustang, which by itself is cool, but then they add Cobra? this is where i get lost, as a mustang is a horse and a cobra is a snake and . . . i didn't think horses liked snakes, because i remember in a few different cowboy movies wherein the horse would rear up at a snake in the path, trying to unsaddle its rider and get away.

Torino. what is that? its like . . . Toronado, but not like tornado.

Skylark? isnt that some lame little bird? Falcon is cool, i'd bet it could eat a few Skylarks for lunch.

VW has a neat habit of naming some of their models after wind and sea currents. Jetta, Golf, and Scirroco just to give you a trio.

and the first, true muscle car, the Pontiac GTO? Gran Turismo Omalagotta? please... its an upgraded Tempest...

 

and, on a side note, the 1966 Pontiac Tempest is my most favorite car of all time. its aesthetically more appealing than the Lemans, which is an options package on the Tempest, and while not as valuable as the 66' GTO, which is the options package on the Lemans, it is, to me, the better car, if only for the tail lights, which they changed for the GTO of that year.

 

but i'm getting away from what i originally started talking about, and that is names...

i'd rather have a Super 88 than a Delta 88...

 

64 olds cutlass convertible, yolo county courthouse, woodland, ca, hey...

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