They must've taken a leaf outta Nissan's book in the 60's, anyone remember the Nissan Cedric?
or maybe the Nissan Gloria perhaps?
Then there was the very pretty Nissan Silvia
And of course there was the Nissan Fairlady
I remember a story that they chose dignified sounding English names to hopefully give their cars upper class appeal.
And in the case of the Fairlady, the boss at Nissan was a big fan of the show "My Fair Lady"
Then there is the story about the Aussie motoring journalist at the Cedric press release, he asked one of the Japanese Nissan executives why they gave the car such a homosexual name, in reply the exec asked "do you have many homosexuals in Australia? The Journo replied "er....yes I s'pose we do" at which te exec answered "very good, we will sell many cars!"
I think the exec won that one!
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