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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: plas man on July 27, 2015, 04:02:20 PM

Title: whats in a name ?
Post by: plas man on July 27, 2015, 04:02:20 PM

simple ,

NSU  =  No Sodden Use .

come on guys give it your best  ;)

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: Big Al on July 27, 2015, 04:04:09 PM

Fiat was always 'Fix it again, Toni'.

Lotus, 'Lots of trouble, usually serious'.

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: marcus on July 27, 2015, 04:09:23 PM

Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious

Quite a few offensive ones for BMW!

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: Rob Dobie on July 27, 2015, 04:31:57 PM

BOND = Boring Old Nasty Deathtrap.

PEEL = Puny Engined Ego Lifter.

TOURETTE = Totally Old Under Rated Engined Threewheeler Travelling Experience.

GORDON = Glad Our Rich Dotes On Novelties.

FRISKY =  Funny Relic Is Seen Kaput Yonder.   OR   Fun Ride In Small Keeled Yacht.

AC PETITE = A Cool Piece Except The Inside's Too Exiguous.

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: AndrewG on July 27, 2015, 04:39:33 PM

BSA = Bits Stuck Anywhere

And, drifting well off topic:

SABENA = Such A Bad Experience, Never Again

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: richard on July 27, 2015, 04:43:48 PM

DOT motorcycles - was meant to stand for devoid of trouble

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: marcus on July 27, 2015, 05:16:18 PM

LSD actually stood for "Pounds, Sillings and Pence" , not for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide as it does now!

(For younger readers the £ is actually a stylised L, for Livre (Latin for pound) the D was from the Latin too: Denarii their equivalent of a penny.)

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: Basket case on July 27, 2015, 07:18:51 PM

DKW, der kleine wunder

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: plas man on July 27, 2015, 08:10:06 PM

Ford  =  Fixed Often Repaired Daily

BSA  =  Best Scrap Arround

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: richard on July 27, 2015, 08:13:51 PM

TRIUMPH - of hope over experience

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: plas man on July 27, 2015, 08:19:50 PM

REME  =  Rough Engineering Made Easy

Title: Re: whats in a name ?
Post by: Big Al on July 28, 2015, 09:00:09 AM

I thought BSA was 'Bloody sore arse', but I concede that it might not be best.