The 29 Funniest Car Names Ever Coined

A list of car names that are funny, confusing, ridiculous, or downright inexplicable. In choosing names for cars, auto manufacturers can cleverly emphasize just what's cool about those cars, helping make them famous all over the world. Or they can create car names that accidentally make their autos infamous.

A lot of manufacturers these days have taken to the traditionally German and Japanese practice of throwing numbers and letters into a blender and slapping them on the fender; CTS-V, ATS, RX7, SLS, 335i, and QX50, for example. It's a cute trick, especially if you want to get around the embarrassment that inevitably comes with with errors in translation.

Most of the weirdest car names in the world came about for exactly that reason. Some of them are pure word salad, some are funny combinations of trim and option packages, and others just sound silly. But the best and funniest come from Asian and European exports whose names probably seemed like a great idea at one time, in one place, and among one particular group of people. Culture clash is always good for a laugh, at least until it becomes culture crash. Then, it's head-on right into the concrete wall of weirdness and infamy. Here's looking at you, Chevrolet Doesn't-Go.

What's in a name? Everything, especially if you miss the mark completely. That's exactly what happened to all the cars on this list. Vote for the funniest names ever applied to cars below!