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CWIZO
on Aug 5, 2011
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It means "fuck me" (repeatedly) in Slovenian :) But I guess if Ford* can't be bothered to check it's car names that a small startup will be even less likely to do it.
* Ford Kuga in Slovenian means Ford bubonic plague (
http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Kuga
) ...
petercooper
on Aug 5, 2011
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And the Toyota MR2 sounds like "shit" in French. They renamed it to the MR there :-)
CWIZO
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Ha, funny you should mention that ... I used to own a MR2 :)
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* Ford Kuga in Slovenian means Ford bubonic plague (http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Kuga) ...