My Sport Trac Enigma

[Gavin Allan]

What about the Buick "Lacrosse"? I'll let our Canadian members explain what that means...

 

[Travis Munday]

lol Gavin...what was that one model GM put out a while back that they had to change the name on for Canada?



I guess I'm the only one that doesn't really care about what my vehicle is called by the manufacturer. Be it a simple name like Z4 or 325, to the complicated ones like Explorer Sport Trac....no matter what the name, the car is the same, the car makes the name, not the name the car. No matter what the Corvette had been called, it'd still be a legend, same for Mustang or Skyline.

 

[Fred]

Even if the Corvette had been called "Booger"? :lol: sorry.

 

[Nelson Atwell]

RichardL, our trucks are named after a person -- Ford (as in Henry). We've also had the Delorean, Edsel, DeSoto, Lincoln, etc.

 

[TrainTrac]

When the Mustang first came out, they had to call it the "T-5" in Germany, because Ford didn't have rights to "Mustang" in Germany.

 

[Nelson Atwell]

Skyline is an awesome Cincinnati chili -- get it three-way or on a coney with cheese and onions. Go to Graeter's Ice Cream for dessert. Awesome food!

 

[Travis Munday]

The Skyline is one of the best sports coupes ever made, in proper trim. Built by Nissan and sold only in a few select markets, namley Japan, it simply blows the doors off of most anything in it's class, and almost everythign in general. Powered by a 2.6 inline-6 with twin turbochargers, it makes a very conservative power number of 275HP (280PS). All-wheel drive and steering, it was fast in every aspect of the word. If you saw the first Fast and Furious, it was the yellow right-hand drive car one guy drove (an R-33 GT-R), and in 2Fast 2Furious, the car Brian drives at the very beginning, silver and blue, was an R-34 GT-R.

 

[Gavin Allan]

Isn't skyline just a Maxima in Japan?

 

[Nelson Atwell]

Here's a photo of a Skyline

 

[Travis Munday]

No way Gavin, two totally different cars.



Thanks, Nelson, didn't think to post a picture...lol. That's an R-33 GT-R...although the front plate isn't a Japanese one, where's that pic from?

 

[Nelson Atwell]

Looks like Italy...I just Googled it.



http://digilander.libero.it/Logiko2031/Nissan%20Skyline%20GT-R%20(R33)%20-%201.jpg

 

[Mike Wilson]

Just some trivia from an Old-School Chevy Man...



Did you know that the "Chevy Bowtie Emblem" was taken off of an old

wallpaper design back in the late '10's or '20's, that Louis Chevrolet (yes, that

was a family name,(Chevrolet) like Ford) saw in his apartment one day and

decided that it would be a good "moniker", or "cloisonne" for his new line of

vehicles?

It has also been rumored that Charles Durant copied this from an old Coal-fuel ad

back in the 'teens.

(Before the days of copyrights and lawsuits)

By the way, do you know what Chevrolet means?



It is an old American Indian word meaning:

"Faster than a Ford, What is a Dodge?"



Just kidding!!!



You decide...:huh: