Unfortunate choices for brand names.

[Dinner]

By now everyone is aware of the problem Chevy had in the 1970's with it's Nova line of cars. Chevrolets had traditionally sold very well in Latin America yet for some reason no one in Spanish speaking countries wanted to buy a car named Nova. It turns out that No Va is Spanish for "no go" or "It doesn't go" but the English speaking engineers back in Detroit didn't catch that until it was to late.

Today I noticed that all new Hyundai brand cars in the US are sold with tires from the Kumho tire company which is promounced "*** Ho". I doubt the poor Koreans understand why everyone laughs at their brand name in English speaking countries.

Does anyone know of any other unfortunate choices for company brand names which they'd like to share?

[Nubclear]

Hooker Appliances.

[SlowwHand]

Casio G'zOne Coming to Verizon

[DaShi]

French Connection UK.

[Dis]

stupid censor. What is the 3 letter word? Is it *** as in *** for tat? WTF is *** censored? What kind of society do we post in that we can't say *** as in sucking on a mother's ***. What's more innocent than that?

[SlowwHand]

Kumho, Dis. Figure it out.

[SlowwHand]

I'm probably wrong.

[Darius871]

Not exactly product brand names, but what the hell:

[Dis]

although I doubt those are unfortunate names. I think those were intentional. funny nonetheless.

[ixnay]

Re: Unfortunate choices for brand names.

Originally posted by Oerdin
By now everyone is aware of the problem Chevy had in the 1970's with it's Nova line of cars. Chevrolets had traditionally sold very well in Latin America yet for some reason no one in Spanish speaking countries wanted to buy a car named Nova. It turns out that No Va is Spanish for "no go" or "It doesn't go" but the English speaking engineers back in Detroit didn't catch that until it was to late.

No.

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

[SlowwHand]

Like this one.

[Dis]

not to many places in my city use Dick in their name anymore. Dick Blick art supplies has been renamed to Blick arts or something like that.

[Dis]

Re: Re: Unfortunate choices for brand names.

Originally posted by ixnay


No.

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

PWND!! I hate using that speak, but it's just so fitting here. I remember reading that. I love snopes, I have to use it to send to my aunt every time she sends me infor about the latest email scare going around (like asparteme etc)

[Asher]

There used to be a store in Calgary called "PMS Hobbycraft". They had a lot of old ladies working there.

But it's now "PM Hobbycraft".

[OzzyKP]

Apparently one of those old ladies kicked the bucket.