Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Name Game: The History of Car Model Names" video.

@uncipaws7643 Ironically Jeep is a near-non-entity in the UK, and has been since the latter cut off parts supplies for the Willys Jeep post-WWII... which ironically is the main reason Land Rover came about / had such a large market segment to sell in. Classic case of hindsight though; as Jeep probably thought demand across the atlantic postwar would be too low to be worth bothering.
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@mbryson2899 The Austin 7 too, which one variant of the classic Mini was named in honour of. (as the Austin Se7en , while Morris called their version the Mini Minor )
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A pity they never used THX as an acronym; especially for a V8 sports car ~_^ .
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@bradevans7935 True; though that would be a funny aside. "Did you know Lucasfilm once tried to sue Chrysler over a car name?"
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@southofthemersey7351 For a 4x4, the Defender was cheap, and available in decent numbers. A bit like the Mini too, there was no class segment attached to it; unlike the majority of plastic clad & largely offroad incapable SUV's that came later.
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03:35 Not quite. La Puta (two words) literally means "The Whore" in Spanish. Laputa (one word) means nothing in spanish, nor English, where the word originated in the book Guillivers Travels. Mazda named the car after the fictional floating city from said book... well a certain Studio Ghibli film that also had to contend with this daft misreading of the name. (no spanish person who understands SPaG seriously states Laputa [one word] means what they claim it does)
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The Austin Metro (1980's - 1997ish) arguably counts too; being the only all-British mass production car to outsell the Mini (1959 - 2000) or the Morris Minor.
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04:38 Best part ^_^ . A whole video of such ironic model names would be great.
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One notable prewar named car is the SS Jaguar . The maker, SS (aka Swallow Sidecars ), had started out only a few years prior, making sidecars for Motorbikes. The result was not just one of the first cars named after a big cat, but was also so well recieved that the manufacturer - after WWII when their original name was thought to make buyers think of a certain german organization - renamed themselves after their most recent model of car. And thus, Jaguar ( Daimler-Jaguar as they'd later be) came about. Side detail: IIRC there's never been a Jag' with the SS (Super Sport) acronym.
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Still: perhaps this weird obcession car companies had with acronyms is another reason why 6000 SUX was the only named car in Robocop. (other than being a certain car company [that was part-paying for the film] being cheeky to one of their rivals)
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