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Question:
Just a silly thought I had last night. (I had such a bad week last week that this week I just want to laugh and have fun!)
about 1 month ago
There was an announcement going around last year that Toyota was going to release the Priapus.
http://www.glossynews.com/artman/publish/toyota-volta-priapus-845.shtml
That would’ve been something!
Me, I’m buying a Vibe next year. The Oldsmobile may not make it through another winter and the Vibe will fit all my husband’s gear alot better. And I didn’t realize until just now that Vibe is a term we use alot too….
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
I don’t think car manufacturers really pay much attention to the meaning of the words they use for names. I think they sit in a dusty basement office flipping through a dictionary or two (especially the ones of languages OTHER than english) unilthey come across a word that strikes them as “cool”. They make sure that the word isn’t obsene and throw it in a hat (a very large lat). Then they walk around the city asking people to pull words fromt he hat and askthose people if it would make a good car name. If they say it would, they make a note of it. Then that reduced list goes through 17 more phases of manuplation, conjugation, respelling and many cycles through the art department. And what comes out is nothing- so they start over. In the end someone just says “use that one” and voila! Car has a name.
In all seriousness though, do manufacturers of, well, anything, target the Pagan community? I’m excluding manufacturers of common or exclusively pagan items, of course….
Well, they could have just named it the Pontiac Goddess, right?
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about 1 month ago
I hadn’t thought of that.
I would have to say that they could have picked some special cars for those names. I don’t think those are too special. Then again, I’m annoyed with all car manufacturers.
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about 1 month ago
I hope that you get a snazzy good car. Sorry to hear about your car. honestly I never heard of that solstice and that equinox. I guess that they are other names for the ones in the 8 sabbats. And automobile companies should only sell you the car. Not be appealing to you, they are not your account manager. As that would be not good business from them. Blessed Be
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about 1 month ago
Who knows….
I’ve often wondered what the heck car companies are thinking with the weird names they give cars. The one that does appeal to me (and only slightly because of the name) is the Nissan Titan – I hate trucks, but when I first saw that I truck I thought to myself “that is a sexy truck”.
But most of their names backfire because I have a Nissan Maxima and back a few years ago I was having a lot of trouble with it and my dad dubbed it a “Minima”.
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about 1 month ago
No. Solstice and Equinox are astronomical terms. The car companies are trying to appeal to astronomers.
Isn’t a pontiac a potato?
Mmm? Vegan- astronomers.
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about 1 month ago
That’s really funny! I hadn’t thought of that. So Be It!
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about 1 month ago
Please don’t put a spell on me!!!
wicca? is that like a wooden box or something?
Earth-Spiritual? Oh, I get it, Mother Earth and Father Sky, Sister Bush, and Brother Lake. Cool.
Yeah, I think the huge car companies are worried about appealing to witches and warlocks. Definately.
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about 1 month ago
I think they are trying to appeal just as much to the astronomy crowd as they are the pagan crowd, as those are astronomy terms that certain sects of paganism give meaning to the event’s occurance.
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about 1 month ago
Maybe they haven’t figured out yet that Pagans are broke.
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about 1 month ago
No offensee, but when the idea guys at major car companies sit around, I assume their first question isn’t “how can we attract the wiccan demogaphic?”
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about 1 month ago
Maybe they’re running out of cool sounding names to call their cars. If they were trying to, they couldn’t admit it – can you imagine the field day the fundies would have with that? Whew…
An amusing thought though.
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