Car Names that Suck: Window Shop with Car and Driver

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Bad car names come in a wide variety of stupid. Toyota‘s bZ4X is named after gobbledygook, all those Infiniti vehicles have the letter Q in their names for no discernible reason, and both Edsel and Chevrolet have built miserable cars called Citation. Some good cars have bad names, and some bad cars make names bad. There will, for instance, never be another Cadillac Cimarron. Even though Cimarron is objectively a better name than CT-this or XT-that, the car itself sucked.

This episode of Car and Driver’s ongoing soap opera Window Shop goes in search of the worst car names ever. Names that evoke images of profligate lifestyles, miserable fates or, even, fascism. Window Shop goes forward—unpredictably for sure—in bringing the world Zoom call–based automotive addle-mindedness.

Conspicuously missing from this edition is Jonathon Ramsey, who apparently is willing to risk his title of “favorite contributor” with C/D. But senior editor Elana Scherr is aboard again and, yes, she brings a Mopar. Also in attendance is the miraculous executive editor K.C. Colwell, slightly less–senior senior editor Joey Capparella, Road & Track aging nuisance John Pearley Huffman and, naturally, Dear Leader of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes, Tony Quiroga.

Which bad name sunk the deepest? Watch and find out. Then join us again in the misty, indefinite and random future for the next episode.

Senior Editor

John Pearley Huffman has been writing about cars since 1990 and is getting okay at it. Besides Car and Driver, his work has appeared in the New York Times and more than 100 automotive publications and websites. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara, he still lives near that campus with his wife and two children. He owns a pair of Toyota Tundras and two Siberian huskies. He used to have a Nova and a Camaro.