Cars with beautiful female names
Giving cars female names is a romantic trend for many automakers. Such names sound melodious and it is impossible to pronounce them without much trepidation. In this compilation, we look at a dozen of the most popular cars that bore (or still bear) female names ...
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1. Plymouth Fury Christine
The car with the beautiful name "Christina" became a real star after the publication of Stephen King's work of the same name. Remarkably, before the release of King's thriller, the car did not even have a factory red and white color. Any analogies or coincidences with real girls are absolutely excluded.
2. Toyota Carina
The next lady on our list was released in the 1970s. Carina means "loving". Indeed, this car "loved" its owner, indulging in corrosion resistance and excellent suspension. However, despite this, in our time such machines in good condition are almost impossible to find. All of them were touched in one way or another by the “red ailment”.
3. Renault Zoe
A modern car with an unusual female name "Zoya" from Renault has already been able to win the hearts of many motorists. Unlike the two previous models, this car really wants to be called “female”, because driving such a car looks much more profitable than a female driver. And just look at her colors...
4. Nissan Silvia
The car with the interesting name "Sylvia" (translated from Latin "forest") is actually a real "child of asphalt". It is this car that is known, loved, and remembered to this day by racers and car fans of the Japanese JDM. The name "Sylvia" helped this car to really stand out from other models of the brand with less feminine names and become a kind of cult among motorsportsmen.
5. Mazda Carol
This little "queen" was a real Mazda hit in its day. It was this car that was sold in the amount of 275 thousand copies in just 8 years of production. The miniature sedan stood out from a number of other cars with its spaciousness for such a machine. Now Mazda has resumed production of cars with the Carol name. Now the "little queen" is a cozy family hatchback produced by Suzuki.
6. Lotus Elise
The car with the wonderful name "Eliza" got such a name for a reason! The fact is that the Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli, who owned Lotus Cars in 1996, decided to name this frisky roadster in honor of his granddaughter, the completely real Elisa Artioli.
7. Lancia Fulvia
The name Fulvia is translated from Latin as "red" and this beast really made a splash at the time, winning 8 rally championships and the World Rally Championship. The main version of this name says that the car was named after the ancient Roman matron, who became the wife of three major politicians and rulers.
8. Ford Crown Victoria
Do you think this car is named after Queen Victoria? It wasn't there! This name was given to the car because of the generous trim that encircles the roof and pillars - the so-called “crown”. Many Americans associate this car with a police car because it was on the basis of the Victoria that all official cars of that time were produced and this tradition has not changed for many years.
9. Fiat 125S Coupe Vignale Samantha
As you can see, the fashion for women's names for cars was specially developed in the 60s in America. But that's why this Fiat was so named so no one knew. Who was this Samantha? Someone's daughter, granddaughter, or wife? Or does this name have some other history? We will not know this, but this does not at all make this car uninteresting. Rather, the rare Fiat was a very frisky "car" with an exclusive design. In total, only about 100 of these cars were produced, so Samantha is still a rare thing!
10. Mercedes 35 PS
The story of how the founder of the company named the car after his daughter is probably already known to everyone. However, this story needs to be fleshed out a bit. The real name of Emil Jellinek's daughter was Adriana Manuela Ramona Jellinek. However, the cult of the Virgin Mary of Mercy (Maria de las Mercedes) in the Jellinek family influenced not only the way he called his daughter, but also the names of his yachts, houses, real estate, etc. The photo shows the same well-known daughter posing behind the wheel of the first Mercedes.
11. BMW Isetta
The name of this machine has a rather interesting history. The thing is that Isetta is an abbreviation for Isabella. Whether it's a coincidence or it was meant to be, the little BMW Isetta cabin roller has become just like its name, a shortened version of a passenger car. Such a machine enjoyed extraordinary popularity after the end of the Second World War and sold circulation of 160,000 copies.
12. Alfa Romeo Giulia
This car has not sunk into oblivion at all, like most other cars bearing female names. The last new version of "Julia" was released in 2015. That the truth is that the car was not released under a female name - Giorgio.
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