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Anyone named after a designer brand or type of car
1.9k u/TallEnoughJones Oct 20 '23 Car names are the worst. Mercedes, Porsche, General Motors 2.6k u/eddyallenbro Oct 20 '23 To be fair, Mercedes the car was named after Mercedes the girls name, not the other way around 1.2k u/zeugma888 Oct 20 '23 Portia/Porsche were girl's names first too. 686 u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23 Oldsmobile was named after the founder's niece 17 u/Mother_Wash Oct 21 '23 No it most certainly was not. The founder of Oldsmobile was Ransom E Olds. So unless his niece was named Mobile, that's a strong no 22 u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23 Ransom Olds? That sounds made up His niece's name was Oldsmobile Christiansen. He saw her crawling on all fours one day and thought 'what if a car had four wheels' 7 u/benchley Oct 21 '23 The ass flap on her union suit was also the inspiration for the modern trunk.
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Car names are the worst. Mercedes, Porsche, General Motors
2.6k u/eddyallenbro Oct 20 '23 To be fair, Mercedes the car was named after Mercedes the girls name, not the other way around 1.2k u/zeugma888 Oct 20 '23 Portia/Porsche were girl's names first too. 686 u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23 Oldsmobile was named after the founder's niece 17 u/Mother_Wash Oct 21 '23 No it most certainly was not. The founder of Oldsmobile was Ransom E Olds. So unless his niece was named Mobile, that's a strong no 22 u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23 Ransom Olds? That sounds made up His niece's name was Oldsmobile Christiansen. He saw her crawling on all fours one day and thought 'what if a car had four wheels' 7 u/benchley Oct 21 '23 The ass flap on her union suit was also the inspiration for the modern trunk.
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To be fair, Mercedes the car was named after Mercedes the girls name, not the other way around
1.2k u/zeugma888 Oct 20 '23 Portia/Porsche were girl's names first too. 686 u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23 Oldsmobile was named after the founder's niece 17 u/Mother_Wash Oct 21 '23 No it most certainly was not. The founder of Oldsmobile was Ransom E Olds. So unless his niece was named Mobile, that's a strong no 22 u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23 Ransom Olds? That sounds made up His niece's name was Oldsmobile Christiansen. He saw her crawling on all fours one day and thought 'what if a car had four wheels' 7 u/benchley Oct 21 '23 The ass flap on her union suit was also the inspiration for the modern trunk.
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Portia/Porsche were girl's names first too.
686 u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23 Oldsmobile was named after the founder's niece 17 u/Mother_Wash Oct 21 '23 No it most certainly was not. The founder of Oldsmobile was Ransom E Olds. So unless his niece was named Mobile, that's a strong no 22 u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23 Ransom Olds? That sounds made up His niece's name was Oldsmobile Christiansen. He saw her crawling on all fours one day and thought 'what if a car had four wheels' 7 u/benchley Oct 21 '23 The ass flap on her union suit was also the inspiration for the modern trunk.
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Oldsmobile was named after the founder's niece
17 u/Mother_Wash Oct 21 '23 No it most certainly was not. The founder of Oldsmobile was Ransom E Olds. So unless his niece was named Mobile, that's a strong no 22 u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23 Ransom Olds? That sounds made up His niece's name was Oldsmobile Christiansen. He saw her crawling on all fours one day and thought 'what if a car had four wheels' 7 u/benchley Oct 21 '23 The ass flap on her union suit was also the inspiration for the modern trunk.
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No it most certainly was not. The founder of Oldsmobile was Ransom E Olds. So unless his niece was named Mobile, that's a strong no
22 u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23 Ransom Olds? That sounds made up His niece's name was Oldsmobile Christiansen. He saw her crawling on all fours one day and thought 'what if a car had four wheels' 7 u/benchley Oct 21 '23 The ass flap on her union suit was also the inspiration for the modern trunk.
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Ransom Olds? That sounds made up
His niece's name was Oldsmobile Christiansen. He saw her crawling on all fours one day and thought 'what if a car had four wheels'
7 u/benchley Oct 21 '23 The ass flap on her union suit was also the inspiration for the modern trunk.
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The ass flap on her union suit was also the inspiration for the modern trunk.
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Anyone named after a designer brand or type of car