These Are Your Favorite Cars Named After Animals

Naming cars aft animals is simply a agelong and storied tradition, astir since nan dawn of nan automobile. Everything from uncommon forgotten classics, for illustration nan creation deco proto-minivan Stout Scarab, to nan perennial income favorite, nan Ford Mustang, have bore titles reminiscent of nan quality their very beingness demoralizes. Usually, but not always, a powerful animals stands successful wherever knowing of things for illustration horsepower and motor size fail.

Last week I asked you astir your favourite cars named aft critters and, arsenic usual, you did not disappoint. The champion portion of this mobility were each nan unexpected things I learned on nan measurement — the Volkswagen Amarok references a elephantine wolf from Inuit legend, nan Opel Manta is named aft manta rays, and, somehow, I ne'er connected "Dodge Charger" and "old timey word for warhorse" together. Guess I person to move successful my history nerd card. Scroll done and spot galore much vehicles from nan animal kingdom.

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Easy, nan Murcielago

Named aft a bull successful 1879 that survived 24 beard strikes wherever nan Matador was truthful impressed it allowed to live, but besides because Murcielago intends "bat" successful Spanish and erstwhile nan Murci becomes basking it opens other mini vents connected nan motor bay to let much aerial successful (can besides beryllium opened manually) that look for illustration small bat wings. Finally, it was technically a batmobile, truthful almost a 3 successful 1 for nan name.

From Crashed Lambo

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Are gremlins real? Does that count? Always liked nan movie.

From Rick C.

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Easy, Fiat Panda, aliases now, Pandina.

From Pete

Ford Heritage Vault

67 Cougar, pinch nan 4-speed apical loader.

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Dodge Charger.

I emotion erstwhile car names are plays connected their rivals. For those unaware, "Charger" is an aged word for a powerful warhorse utilized successful daze attacks to complaint nan force directly.

When you're going up against nan wildly successful Mustang, it's a sanction that sounds awesome and is really beautiful clever, too.

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Jaguar, of course, and nan VW Amarok (giant wolf successful Inuit mythology)

From Jean Theron

Chevrolet

Impala.

Especially nan SS subspecies.

From Anonymous Person

Mine is an obscure one: nan Delfino Feroce. I loved driving it successful nan Project Gotham Racing games arsenic a kid and wished I could person 1 erstwhile I sewage older. But erstwhile I sewage older, I recovered retired that while a functional prototype was built, nan car ne'er really made it into production. The kicker coming is that nan car's Wikipedia article says that it was group to spell into accumulation successful 2000, which intends that it would beryllium ineligible to import into nan U.S. coming if launched arsenic planned. "Delfino" intends dolphin successful Italian and nan institution had a dolphin successful its logo.

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Hayabusa, nan Japanese Peregrine falcon.

From Patrick

There are truthful many! Fiat Topolino ("Little Mouse"). Meyers Manx. Hillman Minx. Stutz Bearcat. VW Bug, Beetle, Fox and Rabbit. Ford Thunderbird and Pontiac Firebird (do mythical creatures count?). Studebaker Hawk and Lark. Citroen Deux Chevaux. Shelby Super Snake and King Cobra. Puma (old Brazilian sports car aliases later Fords). Corvette Stingray aliases Mako Shark. Sunbeam Tiger (Does nan German Tiger vessel count?). DeTomaso Pantera and Mangusto. Alfa Romeo BAT conception cars. Opel Manta. Dodge Colt. Reliant Robin. And so, truthful galore more...

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