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In Reply to: RE: Naming car models: alphanumeric or real words? posted by free.ranger on May 11, 2017 at 06:30:36
Porche, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, all numbers.
Italians have great names and they need them to charge what they do for a Lanborgini or Ferrari.
French? Who cares, they're junk.
But Camry, what a ubiquitous looking car. Pure utility and no soul. What's insane is that in the 90s, all the other Japanese manufacturers made all their cars look like Camrys. If we saw a boring looking sedan, yeah, it's a Camry. Oops, make that a Nissan Camry, er, Altima.
What's great is the big SUVs. What's bigger than an Armada? Or a Sequoia tree? Or the great Yukon! I can't wait for the Siberia, now that's gonna be huge!
-Rod
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Germans use cutesy names for their military vehicles like weasel, puma, fox, fennek, beaver, badger etc.
I didn't know that. I wonder why the Germans would pick English names.
What I love is the German word for tank, schützengraben vernichtung automobile, or trench destruction automobile. Or they also used 'Panzerkampfwagen', armoured combat vehicle. Thankfully, the name was shortened to just Panzer.
-Rod
Probably should have mentioned that I did translate them for your benefit.
The actual names in the same order are Wiesel, Puma, Fuchs, Fennek, Bieber and Dachs.
Not sure why they tend to use cutesy names but it has some history.
Even the Messerschmidt Me 262 was called Schwalbe (swallow) rather than something more impressive or sinister like Thunderbolt or Hurricane just to use a couple of allied plane names as an example.
In WWI the Germans called tanks Tank but then went over to Panzerkampfwagen as you correctly pointed out but I've never heard the other one.
It might be a colloquial form from back then though. After the advent of T34s german soldiers referred to their 3.7cm Pak (Panzerabwehrkanone) as Panzeranklopfgerät which roughly translates as tank door knocking device because it would just bounce of them.
Which is why the Germans adapted the 8.8cm flak as an anti tank gun and also fitted variants, made either by Krupp or Rheinmetall, to the Tiger, Tiger II and Jagdpanther tanks.
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