Another car thread:GM forced to rename the Buick "Masturbator" in Canada

[baldguy]

Headline from Fark

snip

"It's game over for the Buick LaCrosse in Canada. A General Motors executive yesterday admitted that the future Buick model -- which is set to debut late next year -- will be re-named in Canada after GM learned LaCrosse is a Quebec slang term for masturbation."

more

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2003/10/16/227790.html

[TennesseeWalker]

1. *snicker*

What's next? The Chevy Wanker?

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

2. It will be renamed the Spank

nt

[neuvocat]

3. *chortle*

[rudeboy666]

4. My kind of car! n/t

[LuLu550]

5. ha ha ha

C'est manifique!

[Deja Q]

6. Screw GM

They're a George W Bush-style company.

[Maple]

7. Also

hokum.

[Dookus]

8. then hell...

I should've lettered in LaCrosse in high school!

[scarlet_owl]

9. LaCrosse- Finally! A sport I'm good at!

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. *snort*

hee hee hee

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. From the same idiots who brought you the Nova

to Latin America and could never figure out why it did poorly...

No va... spanish for It does not go

They have really learned a lot at GM, does * run it now?

[5thGenDemocrat]

12. GM had to rename the Nova for Mexico and Latin America markets

As "no va," in Spanish, means "it won't go."
John
Amateur GM history buff.

[FlashHarry]

13. LeBranleur?

I Like It!!!