Car Name Acronyms

The Car Name Game
This is the largest list of funny acronyms for car names on the net (If there is a larger one, let me know). They are grouped by country of origin. Have any others? Email them to me. And remember: I didn't make these, I only compiled them.


American Cars~Asian Cars~European Cars~Other Cars



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American Cars

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AMC:


Awfully Made Cars
American Made Crap
A Mutt Car


BUICK:


Big Ugly Indestructable Car Killer
Big Ugly Import Car Killer
Built Under Inspection of Cooky Korean
Big Ugly Indestructable Compact Killer


CHEVROLET-CHEVY-CHEV:


Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips.
Crappy Hot-running Engines, Very Rusted Out, Lose Every Time
Cranks Hard Every Valve Rattles Oil Leaks Every Time
Constantly Having Every Vehicle Recalled Over Lousy Engineering Techniques
Cheapest Heap Ever enVisioned Yet
Choke, Heave, Eventually Vomit

CAMARO:

Can't America Make A Real One?
Cool American Made Automobile, Runs Outstanding

IROC:

I Race Other Cars
I Run Over Children
Italian Retard Out Cruising

BOW TIE:

Big Over Weight Tired Impotent Engines


CHRYSLER:


Car Has Really Yucky Slow Lazy Engine: Runs
Could Have Remained Your Sickly Lame Elderly Relative's


DODGE:


Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter
Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere
Dem Old Dudes Go Everywhere
Darn Old Dirty Gas Eater
Dead Or Dying Garage Equipment
Dangerous On Days Gears Engage
Death Overcomes Driver's Generous Ego
Driven Only During Grey Evenings


FORD:


Fools Oughta Ride Donkeys
Found On Road Dead
First On Race Day
First On Recall Day
First On Rust and Deterioration
Fix Or Repair Daily
Fault Of R&D
Fast Only Rolling Downhill
Features O.J. and Ron's DNA
Found On Rubbish Dump
Fools Only Risk Driving
F**ked On Race Day
F**ked Old rebuilt Dodge
Ford Owners: Retarded Drivers
F**king Over-Rated Disaster
F**kin' Out-Right Dangerous
Flip Over Read Directions
For Old Retired Dudes
Found On Roadside Dump
Fraternal Order of Restored DeSoto's
Ford Owner: Real Dumb!!
F**ker Only Runs Downhill
For Only Redneck Drivers
Fork Over Repair Dough
Fragile Overpriced Rusty Deathtraps
backwards --> Driver Returns On Foot

FORD LTD:

Found On Road Dying, Left There Dead (and I own an LTD!)

LTD:

Lazy Tempermental Device
Leave The Differential
Laughable, Trash Dump
Long Term Debt

PINTO:

Put In New Transmission Often
Paid Inspector Nicely To Overlook


GEO:


Good Engineering Overlooked
General Ergonomics Overlooked


GM:


General Maintenance
Garbage Makers
General Mistake
Generous Motors
Grungy Merchandise


GMC:


Garage Man's Companion
Got A Mechanic Coming?
Get More Chicks
Got More Crap
Garbage Man's Cadillac


JEEP:


Junk Eletrical & Emissions Parts
Jumps Excitedly in Every Pothole.
Just Everyone Elses Parts
Junk Everyone Eyes for Parts
Jinxed Engine has Extra Parts
Jumps Everything Ever Parked
JUST Enough Engine Power?
Junk Enginerring- Executed Poorly
Journey Eventually Ends Perpendicularly


MERCURY:


Mileage Eventually Ruins Car -- Usually Ruins You
Makes Everyone Really Crave Underpowered, Recalled Yugo
Makes Envisioning REAL Car Understandable -- Recalled Yet?
Motorists Easily Rate Car (Usually "Real Yo-yo")

SABLE:

Sorry Automobile Breaks Linkage Everytime


MOPAR:


Move Over, Power Approaching Rapidly
Most Often Passed At Races
Mostly Old Parts And Rust
Mostly Old Paint And Rust
Making A Zillion Dollars Annually
Mitsubishi's Over Priced American Replicars
Mutilates Other Products At Races


OLDSMOBILE:


Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Everyday.
Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment
Oh Look Dammit, Some Massive Oil Burning Idiot's Leaking Everything
Old Loose Dented Sheet Metal Outdated By Infamies Like Edsel


PLYMOUTH

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Please Leave Your Money Out Under The Hood
Please Let Your Mother Out Under The Hood!
Police Laugh, Young Men Ogle, all Underestimating This Heap


PONTIAC:


Poor Old N*gg*r Thinks It’s A Cadiallac


SATURN:


Stickers Are Truly Unnegotiable, Rebates Nonexistent


Asian Cars

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ACURA:


Always Catching Up, Rarely Ahead
Awful,Crappy,Unreliable, Rusty Automobile
Automobile Causes Universal Road Accidents
All Cars Usually Require Adjustment
Any Child Understands Real Automobiles
Americans Can Underestimate Routine Accidents
Another Case of a Useless Requested Acronym?
A Car Under Recall Action


DATSUN


Detroit's Angry Towards Sneaky Unscrupulous Nips
Disgraceful Auto That Stalls UNceasingly


HONDA:


Had One Never Did Again
Happy Owners Never Drive Any other
Honest, Officer, Nobody Drank Anything
Helping Out Nips Destroying America
How Odd-No Damn Acceleration
Hold Overs Not Doing Anything
Hell Of a Nice Damn Automobile
Hand Over Nano-Dollars to Asians


HYUNDAI:


Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive...


KIA:


Korea's Incompetence: Amazing


MAZDA:


Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along
Making A Zillion Dollars Annually
My! Another Zany Detroit Assassin!


MITSUBISHI:


Management Incessantly Tolerates Socially Unacceptable Behavior, Ignoring Sexual Harassment Incidents


NISSAN:


Now Importing, So Sacking Americans Nastily
Now In Some Sh*tty Automobile Nightmare
Nasty Import Sucks Savings Away to Nagasaki
Never In Synch Screeching Awful Noises
Needs Imminent Salvage So Abandon Now


SUBARU:


Send Undercover Boat And Radioactive Uranium
Screwed Up Beyond All Repair Usually


TOYOTA:


Too Often Yankees Overprice This Automobile
Tons Of Your Old Tin-cans Assembled
Taking Our Yen Out -- Thanks All
Take Only Your Ordure To America
Towed Often, Yearly Overrunning Triple A


European Cars

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AUDI:


Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
Always Unsafe Designs Implemented
American Under Developed Ignition


ALFA: (Romeo)


Another Lousy Foreign Automobile


BMW:


Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
Broke My Wallet
Big Money Works
Bought My Wife
Brutal Money Waster
Bavarian Money Waster
Break My Windows
Babbling Mechanical Wench
Bavarian Manure Wagon
Bayerisher Mist Wagen (Bavarian sh*t-car, in german)
Beastly Monstrous Wonder
Beautiful Masterpieces on Wheels
Big Money Waste
Blasphemous Motorized Wreck
Born Moderately Wealthy.
Broken Money Waster
Broken Monstrous Wonder
Bumbling Mechanical Wretch
Bastard Money Wielders
Black Man's Wish
Bowel Movement Wagon


CITROEN:


Crap Interior Terrible Road-holding Owned Entirely by Nutters

FERRARI:


Fast Expressive Red Racing Auto Rahrahrah Italia


FIAT:


Failure of Italian Automotive Technology
Fix It All the Time
Fix It Again, Tony!
F**king Idiot Assembled This!
F**ked Italian Attempt at Transportation.
Failure In Automotive Technology
Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation
Faster In A Trabant
F**king Italians Ain't Trustworthy
Fails In Attemped Turns
Found It A Terror


JAGUAR:


Jews And Germans Usually Argue Retail
Junk Always Going Under At Repair Shop


LAND ROVER:


Loud, Agonizing, Noisy Drive - Rattles On Virtually Every Road


LUCAS (British wiring co.):


Look Under Car After Starting


MERCEDES:


Most Every Red Cent Eventually Dissipates, Extinguishing Savings


MGB:


My GOD, British


PORSCHE


Pity Only Rich Suckers Can Have 'Em
Puts Out Really Smoky Carbonate Hazardous Emissions
Phased Out Racer-Still Can't Hold Engine
Please Overlook Really Sh*tty Cardboard Horrible Engine
Pulled Over Regularly So Cops Have Enough
Pathetic Or Really Stupid Car for Home and is Expensive
Push Our Real Sh*t Car Home Everyday


RENAULT:


Retarded Engine, No Acceleration, Ugly Lump of Trash


SAAB:


Send Another Automobile Back
Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown.
Sad Attempt At Beauty
Sorry Auto, Always Broken
Stick At Aircraft Building
Such An Awful Buy


TRIUMPH:


The Risk Involving Useless Machinery Pays Heavily
The Risk In Useless Machinery Pays Heavily
Tried Reparing It Until My Peter Hurt!
This Really Is Unreliable Man, Please Help!
Travels Rather Intensely Under Many Pot Holes
Trembling Ride, Intrusive Undercarriage, Meekly Powered Hotrod.


VOLVO:


Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object


VOLKSWAGEN-VW:


Vehicle Owner's List: Kite String, Wire, Aluminum, Gum, Engine, Nail
Very Worthless
Virtually Worthless

BEETLE:

Battered Everywhere, Expect To Lose Engine
By Everyone's Experience, They Last Eternally!

JETTA:

Junk Engine, The Transmission's Abnormal

RABBIT:

Replace A Beetle? Boy, It Tried
Racy? Ain't! Bouncy, Ball-less Itty-bitty Toy!

THING:

To Holland In Nine Gallons

VANAGON:

Via Another Name: A Gocart On Nicotine


Other Cars

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HOLDEN:


Heaps Of Low Down Engine Noises.
Heaps Of Little Dirty Engine Nuts
Horrible Old Limo Drives Extremely Nasty
Heap Of Loud Diff & Engine Noises!
Holes, Oil Leaks, Dents, Engine Noises
Hope Our Luck Doesn't End Now