Ask anyone with a child how difficult it was to choose a name, they’ll likely tell you it was a difficult decision to make. Parents haven’t got anything on car companies, though, because not only do they have to find a name that hasn’t been used already and therefore hasn’t been trademarked, they have to make sure the ideal name doesn’t translate badly or hold a less than ideal connotation. Sadly for the manufacturers but amusingly for us, a few names were stamped on cars that really shouldn’t have been. So here’s our run down of the worst car names…
Nine cars whose name translates badly

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