Originally Posted by GNS I don't see anything wrong with 'Quicksilver' for a car name. It means mercury, yes, but Murcielago means bat, a flying rodent that likes to create
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04-15-2012, 11:16 AM | #16 (permalink) | |
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Hahahaaa... like the Lamborghini Reventón. Reventón means blowout. So if you buy one will your tires spontaneously combust every trip? |
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Lamborghini names their car after fighting-bulls. It is their tradition, and that's why their company logo is a fighting-bull. Here is the history of Reventón I copied from Wikipedia: "The Reventón is named for a fighting bull, in line with Lamborghini tradition. The bull, raised by the Don Heriberto Rodríguez family, was best known for killing famed Mexican bullfighter Félix Guzmán in 1943.[9][10] Reventón means "explosion" or "burst" in Spanish, when used as a noun.[11][12] In the vernacular, it is also used to define a very large party or a night in town. In automotive terms, it means "blowout, flat tire" when used as a noun.[13] When it was used as the name of a bull, however, it was intended to be interpreted as an adjective, a quality or property of that bull in particular. In this last sense, Reventón means "he who seems to be about to burst" " Since Reventón means "flat tire" in automotive terms, we can call it Lamborghini Flat-Tire. Last edited by alcheng; 04-17-2012 at 03:24 AM. |
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