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[Selseybill]

Over the years there have been some really stupid car names and people get paid to think them up.
I've just got a email from Opel asking me if i want to be one of the first to view their new supermini named "ADAM" what a name.
What next Eve, Margaret, Derrick and Clive, Pete and Dud.

Can see the scene now. Having a few pints in the pub when one of your mate asks "what you driving these days" Oh am driving Adam, Gay or what.
Going to service Adam tomorrow, Just tinkering with Adam, Just giving Adam a polish.
Just as bad as Richard Hammond calling his Opel Kaddet "Oliver"

[Lizzie_Zoom]

A strange name indeed!

[Andy B]

Over the years there have been some really stupid car names and people get paid to think them up.
I've just got a email from Opel asking me if i want to be one of the first to view their new supermini named "ADAM" what a name.
What next Eve, Margaret, Derrick and Clive, Pete and Dud.

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Adam was Opel's first name ......  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel

Only the same as an Enso or an Edsel 

[Selseybill]

That's interesting Andy. Still a stupid name for a car though.

[Andy B]

That's interesting Andy. Still a stupid name for a car though.

Nissan had some daft names in their time  ...... didn't they have a Cedric 

[Selseybill]

Wasn't that a import model. Funny how the Japanese and Chinese use English names to make their products sound better in their own countries 

[humbucker]

Wasn't that a import model. Funny how the Japanese and Chinese use English names to make their products sound better in their own countries

 

Isn't it to market those same products to English speaking/Western countries (of which there are quite a few)?!

[Elite Pete]

Quite surprised it doesn't end with an A like the rest of the Vauxhall cars for the last 25 years

[I_want_an_Omega]

The gent himself is embodied in a bronze statue outside the formal "station/showroom" entrance to the GM plant in Russelsheim - where all our Omega's were built.

So, although miles apart from an Opel Adam, they were all very close to Adam Opel at the time they left his production line 

[STMO123]

Adam looks a little bit french.

[doz]

The name is the least of its worries. It looks the same as a Fiat 500!!!!

[omega3000]

The name is the least of its worries. It looks the same as a Fiat 500!!!!

I quite like those  Not the ones with the bin liner top though 

[Andy B]

Quite surprised it doesn't end with an A like the rest of the Vauxhall cars for the last 25 years

apart from Senator, Carlton, Cavalier  Belmont ... Chevette .... Magnum  Royale, Viscount, Viceroy, Victor 

[dbug]

Quite surprised it doesn't end with an A like the rest of the Vauxhall cars for the last 25 years

apart from Senator, Carlton, Cavalier  Belmont ... Chevette .... Magnum  Royale, Viscount, Viceroy, Victor 

and Signum.  Also some older than 25 years - Albany, Wyvern, Velox, VX4/90, Cadet

[Webby the Bear]

i really like the adam. names annoying tho