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jgpaiva:
Not disagreeing with you on how the article is filled with misinformations, but here's some clarifications:

1) Laputa... The Spanish word puta means little girl. Yes, it is also being used as slang for whore, but that doesn't change the innocent original, except for the dirty-minded.
-Curt (September 17, 2012, 10:23 AM)
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I'm portuguese and no specialist in spanish, but in portuguese puta hasn't meant little girl for at least decades, it only has the curse word meaning. I believe the same is true for spanish.

2) Pajero: "Penis"? No, it does not mean penis   in any language!
-Curt (September 17, 2012, 10:23 AM)
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Nope, but it does mean homosexual (in an offensive way) in spanish, and it's also close to the portuguese "paneleiro" (which means the same). AFAIK, the Pajero does have a different name in spain: Montero.

5) Ascona. Ascona in Switzerland is located on the shore of Lake Maggiore. The town is a popular tourist destination, and holds a yearly jazz festival, the Ascona Jazz Festival.
Google Spanish-English Translator has nothing to say about ascona.
-Curt (September 17, 2012, 10:23 AM)
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Actually, in Portugal this car was sold as the Opel 1604, since "Ascona" has some resemblence with the portuguese curse word meaning vagina, "cona". According to wikipedia, it was sold as the Ascona in Spain, so I assume that curse word doesn't exist in spainish.

SeraphimLabs:
I still miss my old Nova. 40 MPG after 230,000 miles, and it kept right on going all the way until the front end just about came apart and two of the 5 gears on the stick would no longer drive.

40hz:
Ours is called "the car."

We're very original and creative about things like that at my house. ;)

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Back in my college days I owned an English-built Ford with all manner of erratic and bizarre electrical and mechanical problems. Funny thing was, for some odd reason, I actually liked that car despite it sometimes driving me to the brink of madness. My college best chum Anne christened that car Mistress Wanda von Dunajew for obvious reasons.

TaoPhoenix:
http://www.wandamadrid.com/en/studio/presentacion/

 :o

crabby3:
I've seen some of those lists before.

I have a generic minivan, but I went the other way and last started calling it the Haunted Van, after taking it to several car shops with a problem, they do stuff, and then the problem is still there.
-TaoPhoenix (September 10, 2012, 09:20 AM)
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Auto-repair is not easy especially if mechanics only have a description of the problem from a non auto-savy customer.
Similar to a novice computer user describing an issue to an IT-geek.  Both have knowledge barriers to somehow overcome.

I guess Unpredictable would have to be my full-size vans name.  The last two times it broke down with no warning signs at all.   :-\

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