Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Cars named after winds


Austin
  • Maestro (mild sea-to-coast wind in the Adriatic)
Dongfeng (eastern wind)

Chevy
  • Tornado (Mexican pick-up)
GMC:
  • Syclone
  • Typhoon
Lincoln/Ford:
  • Zephyr (breeze from the west)
Maserati:
  • Bora (ancient Greek name for north wind)
  • Ghibli (Libyan wind)
  • Karif (Somalian wind)
  • Khamsin (hot dusty wind in North Africa and Arabian Peninsula)
  • Mistral (wind from the north that blows over the northwest coast of the Mediterranean)
  • Shamal (summer wind over Iraq and Persian Gulf)
Pagani:
  • Zonda (Andean wind in Argentina)
VW
  • Bora (see Maserati Bora)
  • Passat ("trade wind" in German)
  • Santana (Santa Ana wind (subject to debate))
  • Scirocco (warm wind in Mediterranean)
Yugo (it is not derived from the word Yugoslavia; rather, yugo is a southeasterly wind on the Adriatic)

12 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 2:57 PM

    What about the Ford Zephyr and the Zonda and the Austin Maestro or if you want a helicopter try the Chinook for size, wind would seem popular for names

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  2. AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 3:04 PM

    Me again , i nearly forgot the Lambourghini 'Diablo'a northern Calafornian version of the Santa Ana wind

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  3. MaxichampApril 7, 2010 at 7:03 PM

    Thanks for playing! I'll add the Zephyr. The Diablo is a stretch. There is a wind called that but were the Lambo people thinking-- let's name our next supercar after an obscure Northern California wind? I'm also debating the Maestro thing. Check back soon for an update!

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  4. LukasApril 11, 2010 at 8:07 PM

    Ford's performance arm in Oz also had a Typhoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPV_F6

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  5. LukasApril 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM

    PS - seems there was also a Holden Hurricane, but only as a concept - Google knows about it.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 1, 2013 at 1:36 PM

    Looks like you may have forgotten the Mercury Cyclone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Cyclone

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  7. AnonymousJuly 2, 2013 at 3:18 AM

    I don't see the most popular of them all... Golf! I had read it has got its name from the Gulfstream (Golfstrom in German). Wikipedia is unsure about it, though (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Golf#Nameplate_etymology)

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  8. SanchezJuly 3, 2013 at 2:24 AM

    Nissan Mistral;
    Pagani Huayra;
    Tramontana - Spanish sportcar;
    Gaz Barguzin - Russian car, version of Gaz Gazelle.

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  9. AnonymousJuly 3, 2013 at 12:09 PM

    And kinda meta, the Talbot Wind:

    http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/cars/matra/rancho/the-cars-talbot-wind/

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  10. GilesOctober 25, 2013 at 6:33 AM

    There's a specialist manufacturer in Catalunya, Spain that builds a car called the Tramontana, named after the wind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramontana_(sports_car) & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramontane)

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  11. AnonymousJuly 20, 2019 at 9:14 AM

    chinook helicopter is named after Native American Chinook people of modern-day Washington state, as have many other USA military copters been named in the past.

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  12. Graham ClaytonAugust 17, 2019 at 11:57 PM

    Lister Storm GT racer from the early 2000s.

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