thanks to asa on genmay ACCORD Axles Crack, Coolant Overflows, Radiator Drips ACURA A Car Under Recall Action A Case of a Useless Requested Acronym? A Costly, Unreliable, Repugnant Automobile All Cars Usually Require Adjustment Always Catching Up, Rarely Ahead Always Cursing Untimely Repair Appointments America Can Use Real Automobiles Americans Can Underestimate Routine Accidents Another Car Using Rice Additives Another Case of a Useless Requested Acronym Another Contemptible Use of Recycled Aluminum Another Crummy, Useless, Rotten Automobile Any Child Understands Real Automobiles Asia's Curse Upon Rural America Automobile Causes Ugly Road Accidents Automobile Causes Universal Road Accidents Awful Crappy Unreliable Rusty Automobile Awesome Car, Un-Real Acceleration AMC A Major Cost A Moron's Car A Moron's Car A Mutated Car All Makes Combined All Mistakes Combined Another Major Catastrophe Another Mess of Crap a-holes Make Crap Awesome Muscle Car AUDI Accelerates Under Demonic Influence A Used Dodge Intrepid All Uninformed Drivers Insulted All Unnecessary Devices Installed Always Undermining Deutsche Intelligence Always Unsafe Designs Implemented Another Ugly Deutsche Invention Another Understated Dealer Incentive Automobile Under Demonic Influence Automobile Unsafe Designs, Inc. BEETLE Battered Everywhere; Expect To Lose Engine By Everyone's Experience, They Last Eternally! BMW Babbling Mechanical Wench Barely Moving Wreck Beastly Mechanical Wonder Beastly Monstrous Wonder Beautiful Masterpieces on Wheels Beautiful Mechanical Wonder Big Money Waste Big Money Works Big Money. Why? Blasphemous Motorized Wreck Blew My Money Born Moderately Wealthy Bought My Wife Break My Windows Break My Windshield Breaks Most Wrenches Bring Many Wrenches Bring Money Weekly Brings Me Women Brings More Women Broke My Wallet Broken Money Waster Broken Monstrous Wonder Brutal Money Waster Bubba Makes Wheels (for cars built in Spartanburg, SC plant) Bumbling Mechanical Wretch Busted My Wallet BUICK Big Ugly Imitation Chrome King Big Ugly Import Car Killer Big Ugly Indestructible Car Killer Big Ugly Indestructible Compact Killer Bought Understanding It Can't Kickbutt Built Under the Inspection of a Crazy Korean Butt Ugly Import Car Killer Butt Ugly In Central Kentucky Butt Ugly Indestructable Car Killer Butt Ugly Indestructable Compact Killer CADILLAC Car And Driver Indicates Lady Luck Abandoned Consumer Cars Are Driven In Long Lines And Crashed Crazy And Demented Idiots Like Large American Cars Crazy Aunt Drives It Like A Lunatic Across the Country CAMARO Calling All Mechanics - Another Required Overhaul Can A Mechanic Actually Repair One?? Can't America Make A Real One? Crapped Another Motor, Another Rear Obliterated Crappy American Machine Always Requires Oil CHEVROLET Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips Can Hear Every Valve Rattle Over Loud Engine Tapping Can't Help Every Valve Rattles Or Leaks Every Time! Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle, Or Loud Engine Ticks Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time Cheap Hastily Engineered Vehicle Running On Luck Every Time Cheap Hazardous Expensive Vehicle Runs On Luck Every Time Cheap Heaps Erratically Vibrate Running On Level Even Terrain Clutch Hangs, Every Valve Rattles, Oil Leaks Every Time. Constantly Having Every Vehicle Recalled Over Lousy Engineering Techniques Cracked Heads, Every Valve Rattles, Oil Leaks Every Time Cracked Heads, Every Valve's Rotten, Oil Leaks Every Time Crap Heap Enormously Vunerable Runs On Luck Every Time Crappy Hot-Running Engines, Very Rusted Out, Lose Every Time CHEVY Can Hear Every Valve Yell Can't Have Every Vehicle, Yankee Charged HEaVilY Cheapest Heap Ever Viewed Yet Cheapest Heap Ever Visioned Yet Crap Heap Enormously Vunerable Yearly Cruddy Hick Engine Very Yucky CHRYSLER Can't He Repair Your Slow Leaky Expensive Rustbucket? Car Having Really Yucky Stupid Lazy Engine Runs Chrysler Has Raped Your Sanity Loser - Expect Repercussions Collection of Half Realized Yet Somehow Likeable Engineering Research Company Has Recommended You Start Learning Engine Repair Company Has Rid Your Savings Legally: Electronic Robbery Could Have Remained Your Sickly Lame Elderly Relative's CITROEN Crap Interior Terrible Road-holding Owned Entirely by Nutters Crummy Interior, Terrible Road-holding, Owned Entirely by Nitwits DATSUN Detroit's Angry Towards Sneaky Unscrupulous Nips DODGE Dad Owns Dinky God-awful Elf Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater Dangerous On Days Gears Engage Dead Old Dog Going East Dead On Dad's Garage Elevator Dead On Day Guarantee Expires Dead On Delivery, Gasoline Eater Dead On Delivery, Go Easy Dead On Delivery, Guarantee Expired Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter Dear Old Dad's Garage Experiment Death Overcomes Driver's Generous Ego Dem Old Dudes Go Everywhere Department Of Defense's Grossest Error Designers Occasionally Do Good Engineering Detroit's Only Damn Good Engine Digs Own Damn Grave Eventually Do Or Die, Get Engine Don't Over Drive Gutless Engine Dorky Outside - Damn Good Engines Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere Driven Only During Grey Evenings DUESENBERG Doesn't Understand Every Straight Engine Never Burns Experimental Racing Gas ECLIPSE Eagle's Cousin Likes Intercooler Pressure Supplied EDSEL Every Day Something Else Leaks FIAT F**ked In the Ass Twice Failed In A Tunnel Failure in Italian Automotive Technology Failure In Automotive Technology Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation Fits In A Thimble Fix It Again Today Fix It Again Tony Fix It All the Time Flats In All Tires Found In A Trench Futile Italian Attempt at Transportation FORD Driver Returns On Foot (backwards) F**ked over rebuilt Dodge Fabricated Of Refried Dung Fails On Rainy Days Falling Off: Rusty Door Famous Odor Resistant Dog Fantastically Orgasmic Realistic Dream Fast Only Rolling Downhill Fastest On Race Day Fastest On Road Device Fastest On Road, Dip! Fatally Obese Redneck Driver Fault Of R&D Features O.J. and Ron's DNA Final Organ of Reproductive Discipline Finally Obsolete Racing Device Finally Our Racing Dream Financing Only Rusty Dump Fireball On Rear Denting First On Race Day First On Recall Day First On Road to Dump First On Roads & Driveways First On Rust and Deterioration First Order of Reproductive Discipline Fix Or Recycle Dilemma Fix Or Repair Daily Flintstone Or Rubble Driven Flip Over, Read Directions Flipped Over Rebuilt Dodge Flipped Over Roadside Disaster Flipping Over Results in Death Flying On Ragged Dreams Follow Our Ruddy Dogsled Follow Our Rusty Dogsled Fond Of Resonating Decibels Fool Only Runs Downhill (expletive replaced) Foot On Road Decelerates For Off Road Domination For Old Racecar Drivers For Only Redneck Drivers For Only Retarded Drivers Force Of Rapid Departure Forced to Order Rubber Drivetrain Forced On Reluctant Drivers Ford Owner Really Dumb Fords Only Run Downhill Forgot Our Recommended Defaults Fork Over Remaining Dough Fork Over Repair Dough Forlorn, Old, Ratridden Dustbin Formed Of Rejected DNA Forward Only, Reverse Defective Forwarded Once; Return Denied Fouled Out Re-done Dodge Found On Red Dumpster Found On Redneck's Driveway Found On Road Dead Found On Roadside Dead Found On Rockville Dump Found On Rubbish Dump Found On Russian Dump Found Outside Refuse Dump Found Outside Rotting Dump Four Old, Rattly Doors Four Old, Rusted Doors Four Old Rusty Doors Fourth On Race Day Fraternal Order of Restored DeSotos Freakin' Old Retarded Driver Freaky Obsolete Racing Device Free Or Reduced Drastically Frequent Off Road Deaths Frequent Opinion: Really Disappointed Frequent Overhaul, Rapid Deterioration Frequently On Ritalin, Designers Frigin' Old Rebuilt Dodge Full Of Roaring Drunks Fumes and Odors Readily Detectable Fun Obnoxious Redneck Driving Funding Our Retirement Daily (mechanic`s point of view) Funky Old Rebuilt Dodge Funny Old Rattling Dump GEO Get 'Er Outtahere Get Everyone Out Getting Even Ourway Good Engineering Overlooked Got Engine, Oh? Grotesque Engineering Outdated Guy Earns 0 GM Garbage Motors General Maintenance Generally Miserable Generally Misunderstood Get a Mopar! Gluteus Maximus Good Money Goshdarn Mess Great Mistake Grossly Misconceived Grungy Merchandise GMC Garage Man's Companion Garage Mechanics Companion Gas Mileage Crappy Gay Man's Chariot General Mass of Crap Generally Made Crappy Generally Mediocre Cars Generic Made Chevrolet Generic Made Chevy Generic Mutilated Crap German Milk Cow Get More Cash Get More Chicks Gets Mechanics Crazy Girlfriend's Mothers Car Gloomy Mechanical Contraption God Must Cry! God's Master Creation God's Mechanical Curse Goober Makes Cars Good Many Clunkers Good Mechanics Cry Good Mileage Consistently Goofy Mangled Creation Got a Mechanic Coming Got More Crap Gotta Mechanic Coming? Great Motor Car Great Mountain Climber Great Muscle Cars Grungy Mound of Crap GTO Garbage Truck Option Gas, Tires, Oil Get Tools Out Gets Tickets Often Get Tires Often HONDA Had One, Never Did Again Had One, Never Do-that Again Had Overhauled Nine Days Ago Hallmark of Non-Descript Automobiles Hallmark Of Non-Destructible Automobiles Hand Over Dollars to Asians Hang On, No Dealer Acquisitions! Hang On, Not Done Accelerating Happy Owners Never Drive Anything else Has Often Nice Dealer Accessories Hell Of a Nice Damn Automobile Helping Out Nips Destroying America Highly Overpriced Non-Domestic Automobile History of No Dramatic Acceleration Hold On, No Dealer Addons! Hold Overs Not Doing Anything Honda Options Never Deal Affordably Honda Options: No Deal Available! Honest, Officer, Nobody Drank Anything How Odd, No Damn Acceleration Hugely Obnoxious Nuclear Driving Accident HYUNDAI Hang Your UNDerwear Anywhere Inside Hope You Understand, No Deals Available Inside Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive... How Your Usual Nerd Drives An Import INFINITI It Never Found Its Niche: It's Truly Inconsequential INTEGRA It's Nice That Even Girls Require Automobiles IROC Children Only Run from It (backwards) I Race On Credit I Race Only Children I Race Only Civics I Race Other Cars I Reak of Cologne I Really Own Crap I Run Over Children I'm a Retard Out Cruising I'm Really Out of Cash Idiot Running On Coke Idiot Runs Over Cats Ignorant Redneck Owns Car Incredibly Ragged Out Crap International Race Of Crap It's Really Only a Camaro Italian Retard Out Cruising JAGUAR Jags Always Guarantee Unlimited Astronomical Repairs Junk Always Going Under At Repair Shop JEEP Jalopy Extrordinaire - Everything Piecemeal Jinxed Engine has Extra Parts Jr. Engineered Every Part Jump Excitedly in Every Pothole Jumps Everything Ever Parked Junk Electrical and Emissions Parts Junk Engineering Executed Poorly Junk Everyone Eyes for Parts Junky Engines Eat Parts Just Eats Every Part Just Empty Every Pocket Just Enough Engine Power? Just Enough Engineering Problemss Just Everyone Elses Parts Just Expect Essential Parts Just Expect Extra Payments KIA Keep It Away Kick It Again Kill It Anyway Killed In Action Killed In Assembly Kills In Accidents Korea's Incompetence Amazing Krap in Action LEMANS Least Enjoyable Machine - Always Needs Something Look Everyone My Anus Noticeably Stinks LINCOLN Love It Now 'Cause Only Looks Nifty LTD Last Time Driving Last To Die Last Try from Detroit Left To Die Little Tin Dream Little Transportation Delivered Long Term Debt Long Term Disability Long, Thin Dumpster Long Time Driving Lousy Transportation, Dammit! Loves To Die Loves To Drive MAZDA Making A Zillion Dollars Annually Model All Zoids Drive Aimlessly Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along My! Another Zany Detroit Assassin! MERCEDES Money Envy Reliably Causes Every Derogatory Expletive to Surface Most Eccentric Rich Capitalists Enjoy Driving Expensive Sedans Most Every Red Cent Eventually Dissipates, Extinguishing Savings MERCURY Makes Envisioning REAL Car Understandable -- Recalled Yet? Makes Everyone Really Crave Underpowered, Recalled Yugo Mileage Eventually Ruins Car -- Usually Ruins You Motorists Easily Rate Car (Usually "Real Yo-yo") METRO Mangey Environmentalist Transporter Rusts On Martha, Every Thing Rattles Off! May Every Thing Rattle On May Endure Teasing, Ridicule, and Ostracism Mileage's Everything; Torque, Running's Out Monkeys Engineered This Road Obstacle My Endeared Transportatin Rusted Out MG/MGB/MGF Merciless Garbage Might Go Might Go Backwards Might Go Forward Mobile Garbage Money Grabber Money Guzzler MIATA My Intention: Always To Accelerate MITSUBISHI Management Incessantly Tolerates Socially Unacceptable Behavior, Ignoring Sexual Harassment Incidents May Involve Turbos, Suck Unless Boost Is Seriously High Inside Mostly In The Shop Undergoing Big Investments, Sometimes Halfway Incomplete Motor Is Tough, Sounds Unbelievably Bad, Intimidates Slow Hondas Incessantly MOPAR Made Of Plastic And Rubber Made Of Plastic And Rust Many Odd Parts Arranged Randomly Massively OverPowered And Respected Masters Or Performance and Racing Miscellaneous Oddball Parts Assembled Ridiculously Mitsubishi's Over Priced American Replicars More Overall Performance And Reliability More Overall Power And Reliability Most Often Passed At Races Most Often Proven At the Racetrack Most OverPowered And Respected MOst Perfect Automobiles for Racing Mostly Obsolete Parts Assembled Randomly Mostly Old Paint And Rust Mostly Old Parts And Rust Mounds Of Power And Revs Move Over, Pentastar Approaching Rapidly Move Over People Are Racing Move Over Plymouth Approaching Rapidly Move Over Plymouths Are Racing Move Over Pontiac Approaching Rapidly My Old Pig Ain't Running My Old Pig Always Roars My Old Plymouth Ain't Runnin. My Only Problems Are Repairs MUSTANG Massively Ugly Sh*tpile That's Always No Good Men Usually Stand Together And Never Go Motor Under Strain, Transmission Almost No Good NISSAN Needless Innovations, Silly, Stupid, Automotive Nonsense Needs Imminent Salvage So Abandon Now Never I Shall Steal Another Nissan Never In Synch Screeching Awful Noises Nine Idiots Standing, Saying Absolutely Nothing Now in Stupid Shape, Always Nasty NOVA Naturally Obnoxious Vehicle Award New Owner Very Ashamed Nightmarish Occult Vehicle Apparition Nine Old Vagrant Alcoholics No Offense - Very Average Noticeably Outstanding Vehicle Award Noticeably Outstanding Visible Abhorrence OLDS Obnoxious, Loud Death Sled Older, Louder, Dumber, Slower One Leak, Dead Starter OLDSMOBILE Oh Look, Dammit, Some Massive Oil Burning Idiot's Leaking Everything Old Ladies Drive Slow - Mostly Over Bridges Into Lake Erie Old Ladies Driving Slowly, Making Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Everyday Old Lady Did Some Mechanical Overtime Because It Lacked Energy Old Loose Dented Sheet Metal Outdated By Infamies Like Edsel Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment PINTO Paid Inspector Nicely To Overlook Performance Is Not The Object Put In New Transmission Often Put In Nickel To Operate Pyrotechnics Is Naturally The Object PLYMOUTH Please Let Your Mother Out from Under The Hood! Police Laugh, Young Men Ogle, Underestimating This Heap PONTIAC People On Narcotics Think It's A Chevy Poor Old Nitwit Thinks Its A Cadillac Pretty Overpriced Not That I Am Concerned Puts Out Noxious Toxins In All Cities PORSCHE Phased Out Racer-Still Can't Hold Engine Piece Of Retired Scrap, Continually High Expense Piece Of Rubbish, Saps Continually High Expense Pity Only Rich Suckers Can Have 'Em Please Overlook Really Sh*tty Cardboard Horrible Engine Please Overlook Really Smutty Cardboard Horrible Engine Proof Of Rich Spoiled Children Having Everything Pulled Over Regularly So Cops Have Enough Puts Out Really Smoky Carbonate Hazardous Emissions PRELUDE Pistons Rattle, Engine Locks Up, Differential Explodes PROBE Plainly Runs Only By Exception RABBIT Racy? Ain't! Bouncy, Bad Itty-bitty Toy! Replace A Beetle? Boy, It Tried RAM Really All Malfunctioning Really Awful Manufacturing Runs Almost Monthly Rust And Mold RENAULT Retarded Engine, No Acceleration, Ugly Lump of Trash ROLLS-ROYCE Rich Old Ladies Love Spending - Really Old Yuppies Charge Everything SAAB Scary Antique Absent Brakes Sad Attempt At Beauty Send Another Atrocity Back Send Another Automobile Back Send Away Ass Backwards Shake And Advance Backwards Shape Appears Ass-Backward Simply Archaic And Broken Slick As A Brick Something Always Appears Broken Sorely Absent Any Benefits Sorry Assemly Absorbing Bucks Sorry Auto, Always Broken Start Adding Additional Brakefluid Still Another Ass Bucket Stinking Atrocity Absent Beauty Stinky As A Bug Sucks Away All Bucks Surely Absorbs All Bucks Swedish Auto - Always Broken Swedish Auto's Are Best Swedish Automobile - Always Broken Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown Swedish Automobiles Are Beastly SABLE Sleazy Auto Brakes Leak Everytime SATURN Sorry About That Unexpected Recall Notice Sounds Absolutely Terrible, Unbelievable Rattling Noises SUBARU Screwed Up Beyond All Repair Usually Send Undercover Boat And Radioactive Uranium Sorry Unreal Bonsai Attempt at a Russian U-boat U R A BUS (read backwards) TOYOTA Take Off Your Oversised Tires, Asswhole Taking Our Yen Out -- Thanks All The One You Ought To Avoid Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto Torturous On Your Old Tired Ass Toyota Overcharges You On Their Accessories Transportation Of Young Or Tasteless Airheads TRIUMPH The Risk Involving Useless Machinery Pays Heavily This Really Is Unreliable Man, Please Help! Trembling Ride, Intrusive Undercarriage, Meekly Powered Hotrod. Tried Repairing It Until My Parts Hurt! VOLKSWAGEN Vehicle Owner's List: Kite String, Wire, Aluminum, Gum, Engine (NOT!) Venerable Old Lunk Keeps Starting With Astounding German Engineering Niftiness Very Obsolete, Losers Knowingly Suffer With All German Engineered Nonsense VOLVO Vagrant Owned Lousy Vehicle Organization Vehicles Of Low Velocity Owners Very Obsolete Looking Vehicle Oddity Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object Very Often Loses Viable Operation Very Ornate Luxury Vehicle, Originally Very Outlandish Looking Vehicle Overhaul Very Overrated Loaded Vehicle Owners Very Overpriced Lame Vehicle Options VW Value Withheld Vehicle Wackiness Vehicle Wannabee Vehicular Waste Very Weak Very Weird Very Worrisome Vintage Whirligig Vintage Wreck Virtual Wannabee Virtually Worthless YAMAHA Yet Another Mechanical Atrocity Happens Again Your All Muscle And High Above
DAEWOO Does Any Engineer Wanna Own One? FERRARI Fast, Exciting, Racy, Red, And Really Impractical VW BEETLE Visually Weird, But Everyone Enjoys The Look, Eh?
How about: HUMMER Huge Ugly Macho Machine Everyone Respects. Someone else once came up with one for Lamborghini (!); now if only I could find it........
a classic... ALFA = Always Looking For Another See this thread, too: http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/showthread.php?t=5713