Manufacturers name new cars, in fact, just like parents name newborns, they will follow certain family traditions while injecting the positioning and expectations of the car into just a few Chinese characters or letters. For the Chinese people, most of the Chinese names of domestic cars are well understood, but do you really understand the meaning of the names of overseas models?
Toyota Camry can definitely be called Toyota's boss "Hua Dan". Born in 1982, it has been tied to the English name "camry" since the day it went public. The name "camry" doesn't look special at first glance, but it's actually the English spelling of "kanmuri" in Japanese. In Japanese, "kanmuri" means crown. In other words, Camry also means Toyota Crown in Japanese.
camry atara
In addition, the word "atara" in the camry atara version sold in Australia also has the meaning of crown in hebrew used by Jews, so the camry atara sold in Australia can be translated as "Toyota Crown Crown"...
Toyota's obsession with the crown does not stop there, everyone knows that "Corolla" in English is corolla, which is translated as "corolla" in English, that is, the collection of all the petals in a flower, because it resembles a crown, so it is named "corolla". At this point, Corolla has a certain relationship with the crown, but in fact the connection between the two is not limited to this, because in the birthplace of English - Latin, corolla also has the meaning of "small crown", so toyota corolla (corolla) can also be called "Toyota small crown".
As the world's third-largest car in terms of cumulative sales, the Golf's success is not only due to its superior practicality, but also due to its catchy "golf" name. However, many people currently have a certain misunderstanding about the origin of golf, mistakenly believing that the name originates from the popular golf game of the rich. But in fact, the name golf actually comes from the gulf stream (Mexican warm current) that can warm the high-latitude European continent in winter and avoid it becoming an extremely cold zone.
In addition to the Golf, in fact, most of Volkswagen's models are also named after the wind. For example, passat is a trade wind, scirocco is a Mediterranean wind, polo is a polar wind, and jetta means rapids (earth high wind). In addition to the wind, Volkswagen also used the names of the gods in Greek mythology on some models, such as eos (goddess of dawn), atlas (Hercules) and phateton (son of the sun god).
First camaro
Camaro has a popular name in China - Bumblebee, but whether it is Bumblebee, or the transliteration of the Chinese name "Camaro", in fact, it is far from the original Meaning of Camaro in English! What many people don't know is that the birth of Camaro is very dramatic. In 1965, Ford introduced an all-new model with a body length of less than 4.7 meters, named Mustang. Compared to the 5-meter-long muscle car at that time, the size of the mustang was exactly the level of a younger brother, so it also earned the name of the pony car (small carriage). But because of its smaller size, the mustang had a more ideal handling performance than a muscle car, which was very tempting for the young Americans at that time. In the face of such a fledgling spoiler, GM, which was in the first echelon of the American car company with Ford at the time, decided to suppress Ford's arrogance.
At that time, because most of the cars used non-load-bearing bodies with girders and the suspension form was very simple, GM Group only took a year and a half to create a model that competed with mustang. However, in the official naming of the new car, GM has made difficulties. After considering hundreds of names, gemini (gemini), commander (commander), wildcat (wildcat), and panther (jaguar) that almost became the final name, and even GM Group has spent $100,000 to prepare promotional materials for this name. But because all the models under the Chevrolet brand at that time followed a naming system that began with the letter "c", GM was not very satisfied with the above name. In order to make this new pony car fit into Chevrolet's naming system, GM flipped through a large number of books and dictionaries, and finally found the word "camaro".
At camaro's new car launch, because the car reporter did not understand the specific meaning of camaro, they asked chevrolet staff about it, and Chevrolet quipped: "Camaro is a small animal that specializes in eating wild horses!" However, this is not the case with the word camaro, which in the "French-English" dictionary is a slang term for "friend", somewhat similar to the meaning of "buddy" in Chinese. This means that buying camaro is like having an iron buddy, it will care about you in every way, know what you think and want, and is a good car worth getting along with! Seeing this, it seems that the original name of camaro also laid the groundwork for the friendship between Bumblebee and the male protagonist Sam in "Transformers"!
The Cadillac Calederide is not only the largest cadillac model at the moment, but it is also the only cadillac model that is not named with a letter and number code. The reason why this car has not been renamed the code name used by the whole series is because its name, escalade, has a deep meaning. Like Camaro, Careyd's birth was hasty. In 1998, to counter the Lincoln Navigator, Land Rover, Lexus LX and Mercedes ML Class, Cadillac decided to launch a full-size SUV to join the fight. Due to the tight time and heavy task, Cadillac found that the size of the Chevrolet reservoir was just right for their needs, so Cadillac spent only one year to create this well-decorated version of the reservoir.
Since this full-size SUV was born with the mission of breaking through the encirclement of opponents, Cadillac gave it the name "escalade". "Escalade" is a rather old word, referring to the tactics of using ladders and siege towers to climb the walls of the opposing city when attacking castles in the Middle Ages, so the word escalade also gives people a feeling of being very heroic as an attacker.
The Chinese name "Impreza" perfectly follows the essentials of Sindaya's translation, not only reading very close to the English name impreza of impreza, but also giving people a feeling of sounding very combative. But in fact, impreza's English name impreza is also a very "Sindaya" name. impreza is derived from the Italian impresa, which is pronounced very closely, and impresa in Italian means the motto, that is, the creed of life. This seems to imply that it is a car with the strength to carry your faith. At the same time, impreza also means party in Polish. Combining the two meanings makes it easy to think that it is a car that will bring you happiness and never fail you.
As for the high-performance version of the Impreza WRX STI, where WRX is short for World Rally Experimental in English, meaning World Rally Championship test. Sti is an abbreviation for subarru tecnica international. So when the two are combined, you should be able to realize how strong this rally test car that combines all subaru's technologies is, right?
The Mazda MX-5 has three distinct names around the world, such as the Mazda Roadster in Japan and the MX-5 in Europe and much of the rest. In the U.S. market, because Americans don't like the way code names are used, it is also given an exclusive name - miata. Of these three names, the Japanese roadster is well understood, which means a small sports car, so what do miata and mx-5 mean?
Among them, miata is derived from the European High German language, meaning reward or reward, and this translation also corresponds to the consumption habits of Americans. Because the starter version of the miata in the United States is only priced at $26,800 (about 170,000 yuan), and it has excellent handling and driving pleasure, it has become one of the most suitable models for young people who have just obtained a driver's license. At this point, if their parents are willing to fulfill their child's wishes, they will use miata as a "reward" to give to the child who has just received a driver's license.
Top: mx-3 / Bottom: mx-6
Compared to the miata with its inner meaning, the mx-5 looks a bit head-scratching. In fact, mx-5 is an abbreviation for mazda experiment 5, which means "Mazda 5 test car". Since there is No. 5, other serial number test cars must have existed, including the two sports cars that Mazda once launched, the MX-3 and the MX-6.
Many people may not know that Nissan Xuanyi, which is selling extremely hot in China today, is actually a global car sold in Japan and the United States, rather than a Specially Supplied Car in China. In fact, the sylphy is an alternative to the Nissan BlueBird, and even has the bluebird logo on the first generation of the Xuanyi. The main reason why this car is named sylphy is because sylphy is the name of a fictional elf that can float in the sky, which is exactly the same as the blue bird that was replaced, and it is a species that can fly in the sky.
In the U.S. market, Xuanyi's name became sentra. The name was coined by a San Francisco-based naming company, pronounced from the English central and sentry. Among them, the former central has a central and important meaning, the latter sentry is the meaning of sentry, and finally synthesized the artificial word - sentra. For native English speakers, the pronunciation of "sentra" is reminiscent of safety and security.
Considering that the native tongue of our readers is Chinese, so in order to facilitate everyone's understanding, I will give an example: for the Chinese people, the word "way" that generally sees the public Tuang will associate it with the meaning of the word "way" of the long way and the journey, which means that this is a car that can travel far, alluding to the attributes of its SUVs. The word "Ang" has a feeling of holding your head high, lifting your spirits and looking up. Therefore, even if some Chinese people do not know what model Tuon is, they can still feel from the name that it is a larger SUV.
Compared with the above strange words, Toyota supra is relatively easy to understand, because even if you only have primary school English level, you should be able to see at a glance that the superra and super (super) are very similar, so as to roughly guess its meaning.
In fact, supra is a Latin word that is transcendent and top meaning. And Toyota supra does interpret the meaning of the word. With the near-limitless crushing potential of the 2JZ engine, the fourth generation of the supra, which has been on the market for 28 years, can still be seen today. At the same time, even the new generation of Supra has surpassed the BMW Z4 of the same platform in terms of performance, proving that the name Supra is not an exaggeration.
In Porsche's car series, except for the famous 911, other models basically adopt the form of English naming. Among them, cayman is the variant of the English caiman (caiman), a small and medium-sized crocodile that lives in Central America. Porsche used the "Caiman" to name this sports car, just to metaphorically, although it is small, but it is still very fierce.
As a convertible version of the cayman, the meaning of boxster is very literal, because from the information of this car, you can easily deduce that it is a combination of box and roadster. Among them, box stands for horizontal opposed engine, taken from the word boxing of boxing, this is because the piston of the horizontal opposed engine works like two boxers punching, carrying out rapid horizontal movement, so the horizontal opposed engine will also be called "boxer" engine overseas. The roadster in the back is well understood, which is the unified expression of "two-door roadster".
In addition to cayman and boxster, Porsche Cayenne and Macan also have their own meanings. Cayenne's English name, Cayenne, is a pepper name with a medium spiciness, symbolizing that even if the car is an SUV, it still has good athletic performance. Macan, on the other hand, means tiger in Indonesian, indicating that it is very flexible and fierce.
Modern Santa Fe
Compared with the above several circle "riddle people", the modern way of naming vehicles is much more direct and simple. For example, sonata means sonata, and elantra is a variant of the English elation. In the naming of SUV models, Hyundai's operation is simpler and rougher, basically directly using American place names for naming, such as tucson (Tucson) is the English of Tucson, Arizona, and Santa Fe is the English name of the capital of New Mexico, USA.
However, in the modern car series, there is a model whose name is not according to common sense, it is Phase One. It was not until later that the modern official came forward to explain that everyone suddenly realized. Phase One's English veloster is actually a combination of velocity and roadster, the former translated to mean "speed", and the latter representing "sports car". This means that the meaning of "Phase One" is a speed sports car. But to be fair, can Phase One really be considered a sports car?
Most domestic readers should not know much about the sacredness of Dodge Magnum. It's actually a full-size 5-door station wagon introduced by Dodge in 2005. Dodge chose magnum as its name mainly because magnum stands for "greatness" in Latin. In addition, magnum is also synonymous with larger cartridges in the shell chamber, such as the awm known as the "big sniper", which uses a .308 caliber Magnum rifle cartridge. So in addition to having the meaning of greatness, magnum also represents great power. This is very close to the 6.1L V8 hemi engine used by dodge Magnum, which is the type of "force brick fly". Moreover, with the blessing of the 425 horsepower V8 engine, dodge Magnum still has a 5.1 seconds of hundred-breaking strength.
It is precisely because magnum has a huge power of the meaning, so the name in various fields have maintained a high rate of appearances, such as Renault has a flat-headed truck called magnum, the English name of the whirlwind charge in the childhood classic "Four Wheel Drive Brothers" is also called magnum. What's even more funny is that even the English name of the Dream Dragon Ice Cream we usually eat is magnum. Considering the powerful chocolate shell of the Dream Dragon, the name is really appropriate
In order to facilitate consumer memory and quickly distinguish the model grade, more and more manufacturers have joined the English and digital code naming system. But this does not mean that the traditional naming method is necessarily backward, such as Volkswagen Golf (golf), Toyota Crown (crown), Subaru Forester (forester), Maserati president (quattroporte) and other classic car names, not only high recognition, but also everyone can judge the general use and positioning of the model just by smelling its name, basically playing the car name to the end. Nowadays, some manufacturers have also begun to be dissatisfied with the existence of car names that are only vehicle accessories, trying to empower the popularity of new cars through novel car names, so there are names such as big dogs, first loves, cannons, black cats, white cats, and good cats... After quickly gaining attention, can these car series survive for a long time? I believe that time will give us the answer...