How about Macan which is pronounced matyan in the original Malay and means tiger? Will the tiger come and eat you when you keep on calling the car Makan? Or send a leopard to do the job: macan tutul?
They're pretty good in messing up car names: Mitsubishi named one of their cars the "Pajero" which means "wanker" in Spanish . How could Matt forget about that?!
Every manufacturer: "We need to find catchy names for our cars where we can ensure they can't be misinterpreted or offend anyone! BMW and Mercedes: *laughs in 1,3,5,7 and A,B,C,E,G,S*
Macan is pronounced “mah-chun” in indonesian. If you say it “mer-kahn” it actually means eat. Porsche has totally screwed this up with all their representatives saying it the merkahn way in media. How do I know? I’m indonesian
The MU "mysterious Utility" was a load of fun 2L turbo diesel and a small 2 door with hilarious ride height and body roll, they could drift in the wet.
For the car's with weather related names, here is two more you forgot, or just didn't want to include : the Toyota Ae86 Trueno model , and the levin model. This is because Levin in Old English does mean lightning and Trueno in Spanish means thunder.
In Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the Volkswagen Jetta was never called like that, it was either the Bora, or Vento, because "Jetta" sounds like the word "yeta" wich is a slang term for someone with really bad luck
The Miura besides being named after Spanish fighting bull breeder, it was also named after Don Eduardo Miura, a famous bull rancher and a friend to Ferruccio Lamborghini.
Hyundai had another mess up too with the Creta. Overseas it’s called the Creta but to sell it in the Dominican Republic they had to re-name it to Cantus because “Creta” for us is vulgar slang for lady garden (just like Kona in Brasil)
This was by far the most entertaining and humorous video ever made by Mat. I was falling on the floor laughing, particular during the segments about the Audi E-tron and random English words used for naming Asian cars. It's not quite as funny, but I think I remember that the Datsun 1600 roadster was called the Fairlady in Japan. We need more videos like this one!
As an Indonesian interpreter for 16 years, pronounciation of (Porsche) "Macan" is NOT "MA-KAN" (which means "to eat" in Indonesian). It is pronounced: "mat͡ʃan".
Marathi is actually an indian language and usually it is most spoken in the Indian state called "Maharashtra" and my mother tongue is also Marathi so i agree that fuga means balloon in marathi😂
Fun fact, Tiguan was the result of a naming contest run by a magazine. Tiguan (along with other names like Nanuk, Rockton, Samun, and a few others I can't recall off hand) were listed in the magazine poll. Tiguan got the most votes and here we are. Now, VW still made the names in question so it wasn't totally up to people to make a name and I still don't know how or why VW came up with a portmanteau of tiger and iguana to get Tiguan or why they felt that those two animals embodied the spirit of a small eco crossover, but that's what happened I guess.
Nissan also had the Cedric and Gloria in domestic market. Imagine catching up with your mates at the local Izakaya and telling them you bought a Gloria.
Ad soon as I saw the translations bit I immediately thought of the Kona haha. Actually it worked out for Hyundai, because people were making fun of the car and it got very good free publicity. The ended up changing the name for Kauai and it sold well. Although I recon that could have sold more if they had kept the original name, given the nature of us, Portuguese people.
Hi Matt. Another secret name that I've seen is for Kia Ceed. "CE" are the initials for European products (Ceed was the car which with Kia entered the European market) and "ED" means E-uropean D-esign because the car was built in the new facilities of the company in Romania. But CEED also sounds like "SEED" which (among others definitions) means "any of a number of stronger competitors in a sports tournament who have been assigned a specified position in an ordered list with the aim of ensuring that they do not play each other in the early rounds". I think Kia put some effort on that. Cheers!!!
My mom's family is from Sicily and actually Countach is a LOT more commonly referred to as to express amazement or even admiration. Plague rarely comes into anybody's mind except very FEW people in far northern parts of Italy.
Little surprised that no mention was made of the Vauxhall Corsa name being a unification for European sales; because Opel Group had the same problem as Chevy with the model's original name of Nova.
Hi Mat from Greece. You MISSED a stellar example of a bad name that actually made the manufacturer to CHANGE the car's name when marketed in Greece. The car is SEAT MALAGA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAT_M%C3%A1laga The Málaga was marketed in Greece as the SEAT Gredos, after the Spanish mountain range Sierra de Gredos, because the word Málaga was considered too similar to malakas, a ubiquitous Greek swear word.
Give you some Spanish translations: - Audi q3. Q3 in Spanish is pronounced cu tres. Cutres means Tacky. They keep the name. -the pajero. In Spanish from Spain means wanker. They actually changed the name for Montero (mountain’s guard). If you ever see a group of teenagers taking pics with a Pajero, you know why now.. We also hear there was a Nissan moco (moco means snot in Spanish) and the colour of the pics is always green XD PS: espada is the plain word for sword. The sword used in bullfights is called estoque. PS2: most of seat are cities/towns in Spain but for Seat Mii.
Hi Mat! Loving and watching all carwow videos from South Korea :D I luv these kind of car fact vids btw 🤗🤗 (Of course I like other kinds of videos too lol)
A very recent example, I'm not sure if it's coming to our markets but the name of the Volkswagen Nivus their newest small crossover means groin in Finnish.
I've read many comments and haven't found that you missed one car when you mention the "weather" car names: Pagani Zonda. It's an Argentinian wind (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonda_wind)
Skoda Scala means "scale" in Croatian and in one of the Croatian dialects it also means "ladders". Kia Shuma is also a bit weird, Shuma when pronounced correctly means "forest"
Coincidentally, you mentioned both the Ford Kuga and the word 'Countach' meaning Plague, Kuga in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian languages means Plague as well. In Australia, it basically meant, well, nothing, hence they changed it to Escape 🤣🤣
Anyone notice how Matt has a different personality and energy when he has his glasses on compared to when he doesn't like in the reviews. This man pulling some Clark Kent shenanigans on us? 👀
The Tiguan was named by a naming contest, so they got what they deserved. As far as the wind names go, the Golf is named for the Gulf Stream, the Jetta for the Jet Stream. The Passat is supposedly named for a trade wind, Vento literally means “wind,” and as was mentioned, the Bora and Scirocco are named for other types of winds. Then there are cars named for figures of mythology with Eos and Atlas (and there is some argument that Arteon is perhaps named for Artemis, although the official word on that name is they modified the Latin word “artem,” which means “art.” Volkswagen claims that they’ve never had a naming scheme... Somehow, I don’t believe them.
I haven't read all the comments, so maybe someone has mentioned the Honda Jazz. In some markets, Honda also call it the Fit. I can't guarantee it's true, but the story goes that in Europe Honda was planning on call the car the "Fitta". Then Honda found out what Fitta means in Swedish. Look it up.
Volkswagen actually has a naming department. I know some bud in the Namesgabe department and it's not easy job because the name has to fit in a lot of different cultures and languages.
I like the brand and their car names sound good to me like Santa Fe. But no one seems to agree on how to say the brand in English! In my native Brazil it was hi-yun-die which sounds great there but quite aggressive now that I'm thinking about it in English 😂. But the brand in the original South Korean does not sound very cool to me.
Doggo Says NO MO lot of confusion around this one but Ritmo menstrual, often shortened to "ritmo," is apparently the term for one's menstrual period in Spanish. PerhapsFiat changed the name in Spanish-speaking countries for this reason. Who knows
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Kona in urdu(Pakistan language) means butt
I haven’t watched the video yet but did you do the aztek?
Kona!!
@Carwow you forgot Volkswagen thing and toyota deliboy..
I was the first to like
fun fact, the mitsubishi pajero had its name changed when they were selling it in spain because pajero means “wanker” in spanish
*gunther steiner liked that*
that Pajero case forced to rename it Montero for the whole South America
You Triggered Guenther Steiner x)
Estaba buscando este comentario xD
Was about to comment about that Haha
also KONA in Polish can be translated as "dying slowly" xD
In Norwegian KONA translates to Wife. So when mixing polish and norwegian i guess the car just kills the wife slowly ...
In Portugal it means cunt.... only country that it is not called the Kona hahah
Tin Can Tiltman haha sevage!
This is not offensive but kona means corner in hindi
In india kona means *blind*...in some states
Actually here in Germany you couldn't sell a car with the name "SS", which some Chevrolets had, for some obvious reasons....
I bet there's people who have no idea what ss means
hahaha
damn! how did Chevrolet missed that!
Mat: If you don’t pronounce TAYCAN correctly I will...
Also Mat: PORSCH.
Heh
How about Macan which is pronounced matyan in the original Malay and means tiger? Will the tiger come and eat you when you keep on calling the car Makan? Or send a leopard to do the job: macan tutul?
Im glad someone else realised this 😂
Thats the original name not porscheeeeee
Michiel de Jong
th-cam.com/video/mG7GBGcABYQ/w-d-xo.html
Matt: You’re never gonna sell anything with a name “turd” are you?
Toyota TRD: hold my red stitching
I mean saying TRD instead of Turd.
Meanwhile in Indonesia
Toyota with "TRD": Hold my TRD Sportivo sticker. #KAMISUKASTICKER
@A real bisexual petrol-head lol omg that last part killed me and it is true in a way.
It’s a little known fact, but “Multipla” is actually Latin for “Incredibly Sexy”.
😎
Kind of ironic really
Yeah it is ironic
A historical irony
Fiat multipla is kinda shit car
Girlfriend: Will you come this evening?
Boyfriend: Yeah, I'll be driving Naked tonight.
In my naked* but I will give you a sub
Two of the funniest car names I ever seen
- Mitsubishi lettuce
- Mitsubishi mini active urban sandal
@Car INTERIOR u got this from google mate, dont worry I done the same
They're pretty good in messing up car names:
Mitsubishi named one of their cars the "Pajero" which means "wanker" in Spanish .
How could Matt forget about that?!
Tte last car you listed is the mitsubishi mouse LOL
Nah, the best best car name ever has to be:
-Mazda Scrum Wagon
Honda has a kei car in japan called "that's"
carwow: Names of cars
Mazda LaPuta: come at me bro!
haven't seen that before! haha
works in portuguese too! hahaha
PORSCHAA
No way it's a real name!
Puta in colombia means "fuck"
Two of the funniest names I've seen for a car
1. Mitsubishi lettuce
2. Mitsubishi mini active urban sandal
I see you around a lot. I guess we have the same interests :P
what about the Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard
They missed Mitsubishi Legnum. Mitsubishi is the ultimate namer of it's products.
@@mustafa.d7488 what is so funny about legnum? Sorry im asian too XD
@@ziqrsx damn! Sitting in this car all day makes my Leg-num(b). Thank god it's not my middle leg.
I am from Slovenia...
And in Slovenian language:
Ford Kuga literally means Ford 'Plague'
&
Skoda Scala literally means Skoda 'Pissing'
Also in Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian...
Kuga and Ka in our slang means also 'what'
Skala-Stairs and Nova-New in Macedonian
@@snoopydogg7305 jesus, never realized that macedonian had such latin influence...both almost identical in italian
We don’t go around exclaiming “plague” when we see something cool but we do call cool things “sick!” So it’s not that different
Yeah man!
that's what top cars calls the ford kuga
"Besides the DB models, Aston names it's cars starting with the letter V"
Aston Martin Cygnet: *_It hurts, but I'll be fine_*
Vulcan bae tho
Rapide and Lagonda: are we a joke to you?
And the DBX ?
DBS, Victor
*Besides the DB models*
Why do people refuse to read/listen?
Every manufacturer: "We need to find catchy names for our cars where we can ensure they can't be misinterpreted or offend anyone!
BMW and Mercedes: *laughs in 1,3,5,7 and A,B,C,E,G,S*
Audi: laughs in Mercedes + BMW
Every Car Manufacturer in the early 1910s to late 1920s be like calling their car the Model ____ or the ______ Patent Motorcar or Type _____
Macan is pronounced “mah-chun” in indonesian. If you say it “mer-kahn” it actually means eat.
Porsche has totally screwed this up with all their representatives saying it the merkahn way in media.
How do I know? I’m indonesian
Toyota ISIS - Terrorists
Renault Duster - Why
Dodge - Hellcat, Demon, Lucifer, Spirit, Viper, Illuminati
Isis is actually the Egyptian Goddess of the Moon. Ironically, ISIS, the terrorists, is an acronym itself.
Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk has a hellcat engine
Car companies= Why is it so difficult to name cars
BMW = SO EASY- 1 series, 2 series, 3 series ..............8 series
And it sounds awful and uninventive
Same with Mercedes
A-Class
B-Class
C-Class etc
Audi too a8 a3 a4 a6 s3 s4 s6 s8 rs3 rs4 rs5 rs6 rs8 etc
Heinrich Rhode but Mercedes missed the d class and a few letters between the E class and S class. Then again between S class and X class
Felipe Silveira does it though?
And in india, KONA means "A Corner" 😂😂
There's also the Mazda Laputa that was only made for Japan, but was sold in Europe as the Suzuki Ignis.
The MU "mysterious Utility" was a load of fun 2L turbo diesel and a small 2 door with hilarious ride height and body roll, they could drift in the wet.
Indian's have the same issue
With pronouncing Skoda Laura
"Laura"
It means the D word in Hindi
💯💯💯💯💯💯😂
Laura 🤣🤣
D word in Hindi?? What is the d word?
Hello fellow Indians
@@99scribbler lkb 🤣
Mat, you forgot to mention the most obvious wind, (VW) Passat..
Thanx for entertaining us once again. You are the best!
Pretty much the exact word most people uttered when they first saw the Countach. So aptly named indeed!
For the car's with weather related names, here is two more you forgot, or just didn't want to include : the Toyota Ae86 Trueno model , and the levin model. This is because Levin in Old English does mean lightning and Trueno in Spanish means thunder.
You mention Chevy Nova and not Mitsubishi Pajero?
What does pajero mean?
@@shravanav993 It means "Wanker" in Spanish XD
In Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the Volkswagen Jetta was never called like that, it was either the Bora, or Vento, because "Jetta" sounds like the word "yeta" wich is a slang term for someone with really bad luck
@@juanmartincamussi9465 good one Juan! didn't know about that =)
I laughed hard thinking of someone in Spain saying they bought a new No Va 😂😜😜
You forgot the Pajero it Literally means Wanker in Spanish 😂😂😂
“I will look for you”
“I will find you”
“and I will go to a TH-cam ad”
Hahaha it was so funny
😆
same
Hyundai “santa fé” wich in portuguese means holy faith 😆
Also in Spanish
Alfa Romeo Mito - mito means bribe in my country. HONDA CR-V means worm
You forgot about the KUGA - means plague
desi brate
Mito in portuguese means myth
@@nelsonmarques1334 and of course in italian....
@@andreatomassini5521 see. We can almost have a conversation in our own languages
The Miura besides being named after Spanish fighting bull breeder, it was also named after Don Eduardo Miura, a famous bull rancher and a friend to Ferruccio Lamborghini.
Hyundai had another mess up too with the Creta. Overseas it’s called the Creta but to sell it in the Dominican Republic they had to re-name it to Cantus because “Creta” for us is vulgar slang for lady garden (just like Kona in Brasil)
It's the same in India Hyundai calls it the Creta
There was a car by the name Mazda Laputa and Laputa means a reproductive organ in the female
I mean at least in the u.s. people do say "Sick!" When they like something, so maybe that's what the whole lambo thing is about
something similar...
This was by far the most entertaining and humorous video ever made by Mat. I was falling on the floor laughing, particular during the segments about the Audi E-tron and random English words used for naming Asian cars. It's not quite as funny, but I think I remember that the Datsun 1600 roadster was called the Fairlady in Japan. We need more videos like this one!
I really love this!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Very fun and educative! Would love to see more of these
As an Indonesian interpreter for 16 years, pronounciation of (Porsche) "Macan" is NOT "MA-KAN" (which means "to eat" in Indonesian).
It is pronounced: "mat͡ʃan".
Am Portuguese and I laughed so hard when I first heard it😂(kona)
Buy this is a slang in Portugal? Because I've never heard it in Brasil
And they have not mentioned the old Opel Ascona... The same 'lady garden'!
@LILY ! I WANT SЕЕХ ღ*GO MY PROF!LE* ღ well, that's odd
Very common slang in Angola 🇦🇴
Surprised it is also known in Portugal.
@Vikine ! y.o I WANT SЕЕХ !!!! OPEN MY VIDEO !!!! seems legit
6:43 Mat actually said the name of my country. As a Libyan, that have made my year!
4:10 as a portugese i think Im not the only who laughed af lmao
This was absolutely fun to watch as i am one who wonders what the manufacturer's thoughts were before naming a car. Well done Watson
Nissan Fuga..
Fuga means Balloon in Marathi 😂
Fuga in Portuguese can mean getaway, or leak ( air, water, gas leak ), and it's used in dodging taxes also.
Fuga means boring in Suriname 😂
Marathi is actually an indian language and usually it is most spoken in the Indian state called "Maharashtra" and my mother tongue is also Marathi so i agree that fuga means balloon in marathi😂
@@nelsonmarques1334 same in italian, not the tax thing tho...we use "evasione" which is a similar concept because it means prison break/escape
@@andreatomassini5521 We use " fuga ao fisco" or " evasão fiscal". So it's very similar.
Fun fact, Tiguan was the result of a naming contest run by a magazine. Tiguan (along with other names like Nanuk, Rockton, Samun, and a few others I can't recall off hand) were listed in the magazine poll. Tiguan got the most votes and here we are.
Now, VW still made the names in question so it wasn't totally up to people to make a name and I still don't know how or why VW came up with a portmanteau of tiger and iguana to get Tiguan or why they felt that those two animals embodied the spirit of a small eco crossover, but that's what happened I guess.
Nissan also had the Cedric and Gloria in domestic market. Imagine catching up with your mates at the local Izakaya and telling them you bought a Gloria.
5:11 Mat has a very particular set of skills
All of Aston-Martin's cars sart with the letter "V"
Aston-Martin Cygnet: Hold my beer
Also the new suv the DBX
Also the DBR1, DB2, DB3, DB4, DB5, DB6, DB7, DB9, DBS etc...
Rapide?
Yep, and the One-77.
Aviation LBA Who stole my exhaust?
Ad soon as I saw the translations bit I immediately thought of the Kona haha. Actually it worked out for Hyundai, because people were making fun of the car and it got very good free publicity. The ended up changing the name for Kauai and it sold well. Although I recon that could have sold more if they had kept the original name, given the nature of us, Portuguese people.
Hi Matt. Another secret name that I've seen is for Kia Ceed. "CE" are the initials for European products (Ceed was the car which with Kia entered the European market) and "ED" means E-uropean D-esign because the car was built in the new facilities of the company in Romania. But CEED also sounds like "SEED" which (among others definitions) means "any of a number of stronger competitors in a sports tournament who have been assigned a specified position in an ordered list with the aim of ensuring that they do not play each other in the early rounds".
I think Kia put some effort on that. Cheers!!!
My mom's family is from Sicily and actually Countach is a LOT more commonly referred to as to express amazement or even admiration. Plague rarely comes into anybody's mind except very FEW people in far northern parts of Italy.
4:30 it's pronounced ma-CHAN, matt!!
As a portuguese I've clicked on the video expecting to hear Matt mentioning the kona, I was not disappointed 😂
Little surprised that no mention was made of the Vauxhall Corsa name being a unification for European sales; because Opel Group had the same problem as Chevy with the model's original name of Nova.
Apparently the whole Nova thing is an urban legend. Mexico actually had a fuel station with the name of Nova.
Ford Kuga , Kuga on Serbian means plague :-) . Ford plague :-)
Not only Serbia, and Bosnia too (;
@@jednabudala8512 Bosanci ,kao i Hrvati i Crnogorci pricaju istim jezikom ;-)
@@SrdjanPoznanovic znam ':)
I'm in my mums plague
So it's technically a Ford Countach ;)
This was a much needed video! 😂
Hi Mat from Greece. You MISSED a stellar example of a bad name that actually made the manufacturer to CHANGE the car's name when marketed in Greece.
The car is SEAT MALAGA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAT_M%C3%A1laga
The Málaga was marketed in Greece as the SEAT Gredos, after the Spanish mountain range Sierra de Gredos, because the word Málaga was considered too similar to malakas, a ubiquitous Greek swear word.
Bongfriendly made me laugh way too hard! And awesome vid Mat!
"Imagine if we would go around going PLAGUE!" - that would be SICK!
we already use the word viral.
*the video we didn’t know we wanted*
Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!
The Daihatsu Naked killed me so hard 😂😂😂😂
Give you some Spanish translations:
- Audi q3. Q3 in Spanish is pronounced cu tres. Cutres means Tacky. They keep the name.
-the pajero. In Spanish from Spain means wanker. They actually changed the name for Montero (mountain’s guard). If you ever see a group of teenagers taking pics with a Pajero, you know why now..
We also hear there was a Nissan moco (moco means snot in Spanish) and the colour of the pics is always green XD
PS: espada is the plain word for sword. The sword used in bullfights is called estoque.
PS2: most of seat are cities/towns in Spain but for Seat Mii.
You missed out the Mitsubishi Pajero Matt! Look it up, I'll wait 😊
😐
Yeah they are all Wankers ;-) Spanish for wanker.
Mitsubishi *Wanker*
Hi Mat! Loving and watching all carwow videos from South Korea :D
I luv these kind of car fact vids btw 🤗🤗
(Of course I like other kinds of videos too lol)
OMG this is my record 12 mins ago I commented and already there's 4 likes!
Ty for giving a buff guys!
Dude can you please tell what is the correct pronunciation of Hyundai?
In my country, people call it Hyun-day....
@@papaKiPariTohHumBhiHain It's "Hyun-de" dude
I'd like to see a review of the new JAG F PACE PLEASE mahn. Big fan of your review style
A very recent example, I'm not sure if it's coming to our markets but the name of the Volkswagen Nivus their newest small crossover means groin in Finnish.
Speaking of plague, Kuga actually means plague in Slovene language 🙃
Renault Koleos : The word reportedly means ‘sheath’ in Greek and ‘testicle’ in Latin.
It also means vagina in ancient Greek apparently 😂
@@Thanos.m vagina itself was the latin word for sheat.....
OMG that was the funniest one yet!! 🤣! Well done matt!
Thanks for the info. Educational
„Pajero“ means „wanker“ in Mexican, which is why it’s called „Montero“ there.
SteamSalami would be the most offending Mitsubishi ever
*Spanish
4:44 I'm Turkish and i just realized this :D
Tay (means something like young horse) Can (means life)
I've read many comments and haven't found that you missed one car when you mention the "weather" car names: Pagani Zonda. It's an Argentinian wind (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonda_wind)
Skoda Scala means "scale" in Croatian and in one of the Croatian dialects it also means "ladders".
Kia Shuma is also a bit weird, Shuma when pronounced correctly means "forest"
You missed the most infamous car name: The Gaylord Gladiator
4:30 Aing Macan. RAWR
Coincidentally, you mentioned both the Ford Kuga and the word 'Countach' meaning Plague, Kuga in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian languages means Plague as well.
In Australia, it basically meant, well, nothing, hence they changed it to Escape 🤣🤣
Anyone notice how Matt has a different personality and energy when he has his glasses on compared to when he doesn't like in the reviews. This man pulling some Clark Kent shenanigans on us? 👀
Got this notification as soon as I opened You Tube and rushed here. Addicted to Carwow😍😍
Carplague*
The VW Bora was named the Jetta 5, in my county 🇿🇦
Ayy I'm south african
The Tiguan was named by a naming contest, so they got what they deserved.
As far as the wind names go, the Golf is named for the Gulf Stream, the Jetta for the Jet Stream. The Passat is supposedly named for a trade wind, Vento literally means “wind,” and as was mentioned, the Bora and Scirocco are named for other types of winds.
Then there are cars named for figures of mythology with Eos and Atlas (and there is some argument that Arteon is perhaps named for Artemis, although the official word on that name is they modified the Latin word “artem,” which means “art.”
Volkswagen claims that they’ve never had a naming scheme... Somehow, I don’t believe them.
Glad you got the Countach story right! And yes its' one of the coolest names ever!
Also, pajero in Spanish means wank*r (Mitsubishi pajero)
3:26 "Turd"
"Hey, come have a seat in my new Turd!" 😂😂😂
I haven't read all the comments, so maybe someone has mentioned the Honda Jazz. In some markets, Honda also call it the Fit. I can't guarantee it's true, but the story goes that in Europe Honda was planning on call the car the "Fitta".
Then Honda found out what Fitta means in Swedish. Look it up.
Omg 😆 The NAKED ?????!!!!!
Lexus NX didnt go well in eastern europe where we all wondered why dd they call their new car the 'lexus f*ck'
Volkswagen actually has a naming department. I know some bud in the Namesgabe department and it's not easy job because the name has to fit in a lot of different cultures and languages.
I love it when Matt tries to pronounce these words 😂
3:56 Hyundai srewed up, when they named themself Hyundai 👀
I like the brand and their car names sound good to me like Santa Fe. But no one seems to agree on how to say the brand in English! In my native Brazil it was hi-yun-die which sounds great there but quite aggressive now that I'm thinking about it in English 😂. But the brand in the original South Korean does not sound very cool to me.
Mat: “I will find you... and I will”
TH-cam: tHiS iS rOOT
That Liam Neeson impersonation😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gotta love Mat Watson
Thanks, learned alot.
Given that the name of the car is "C-HR" - wouldn't that mean the car is actually "Compact-High Rider"? Compact-high?
They might as well have called it the "hotbox."
1:53 😂
1:46 Lol
Nissan: The Brand new 2021 Nissan LEFAFC has just been released!
Everyone: Stares in Confusion
Need more of these made me laugh😂😂
1:53 Did he say the f word?
you forgot a funny one: FIAT Ritmo --> Women's periods in spanish
I remember that they changed it in the United States to Strada
I'm spanish and you're actually very wrong, "ritmo" is translated as rhythm, not a woman's period
@@DoggoSays_NO_MO I think it imply that the car rhythm is like on a woman period that's why it change in the United States to Strada
Doggo Says NO MO lot of confusion around this one but Ritmo menstrual, often shortened to "ritmo," is apparently the term for one's menstrual period in Spanish. PerhapsFiat changed the name in Spanish-speaking countries for this reason. Who knows
I love the variations but can you do a video on 8 or 9 seater cars for families please.
8:42 actually matt that sounds.... *sick*