Mitsubishi Starion

David · Post by **David** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:20 am

Never seen nor heard of these before a top gear repeat the other night. Another 480 look-alike that I want to own!

Anybody here own/drive one of these?

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:20 am

No but I do like them.

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:27 am

They do look brilliant but being 1980s and Japanese they're even more prone to rot and stuff than 480s are.

Macaroon · Post by **Macaroon** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:05 am

I hope Clarkson repeated the story about how the car supposedly got it's name...

...That the Mitsubishi marketing guys asked around for a really muscular English word, suitable for their magnificent new rear-wheel drive beast...

...something that would evoke the same mystique as, say, the Mustang

... and somebody cleverly suggested they call it the Stallion

...So the Japanese marketing department phoned the US marketing department and (linguistics being what they are) ordered a huge campaign for the new Mitsubishi Starion...

Captain Crunch · Post by **Captain Crunch** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:19 am

Just a bit like this one then (it's old, I know)
-'How often do You have election'
-'Evely molning'

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:23 pm

The Mitsubishi Pajero had to be named different in Spanish language countries because Pajero there means wanker...

glasgowjim · Post by **glasgowjim** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:47 pm

Honda were going to name one of their cars in europe FLYTE until someone told what it meant in norwegian (the c word).

gltease · Post by **gltease** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:50 pm

Honda was gonna call the Civic the Tosser, yeah true story !

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:57 pm

This is a famous one in Holland, the Norwegian Slettebakken School:

In Dutch this literally means slut school

esta · Post by **esta** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:03 pm

And I think I have said this before, but the Capri was going to be called the Capriano (or something like that) until someone pointed out that in Greek it meant goats s*%t!

moslo · Post by **moslo** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:56 pm

i think i remember (from my 80s childhood!) Paul from Neighbours drove a Starion.

As for car names, anyone remember the Lancia Y10 (white hen)? And apparently the Fiat Ritmo was renamed the Strada for the British market cos Ritmo sounded too much like a lawnmower. Probably not far off the mark, remembering the one my dad had for a (short) while!

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:50 pm

Talking about Fiat, the Dutch weren't to happy with the Fiat Croma because it is an established brand of butter here.