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stmdude:

--- Quote from: Gromitt on September 01, 2017, 12:03:08 pm ---Around the beginning of this millennium, Honda introduced a car with the name Fitta. That means c*nt in Swedish. They changed the name to Jazz quite fast.

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Close..  It was called the "Honda Fit", but it was still deemed to be too close for comfort.

tooki:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on September 06, 2017, 01:44:37 am ---
--- Quote from: HighVoltage on September 05, 2017, 10:10:46 am ---How about a "KID-SEX_CHANGE"

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Even the name Kid Exchange is kind of funny.  Is that where you bring your kid to trade it in for another?  :-DD

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https://youtu.be/OEScCJzY4V4

Turn on English captions if you don't speak German. :D

grumpydoc:

--- Quote from: stmdude on September 06, 2017, 06:33:09 am ---
--- Quote from: Gromitt on September 01, 2017, 12:03:08 pm ---Around the beginning of this millennium, Honda introduced a car with the name Fitta. That means c*nt in Swedish. They changed the name to Jazz quite fast.

--- End quote ---

Close..  It was called the "Honda Fit", but it was still deemed to be too close for comfort.

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The Toyota MR2 was just known as the Toyota MR in France.

MR2 = "Emm Err deux" = "merdeux" = "sh1t"

Gromitt:

--- Quote from: stmdude on September 06, 2017, 06:33:09 am ---
--- Quote from: Gromitt on September 01, 2017, 12:03:08 pm ---Around the beginning of this millennium, Honda introduced a car with the name Fitta. That means c*nt in Swedish. They changed the name to Jazz quite fast.

--- End quote ---

Close..  It was called the "Honda Fit", but it was still deemed to be too close for comfort.

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No, it was called Fitta, they changed it to Fit in some markets after they realised what the meening was in some languages.


helius:

--- Quote from: Gromitt on September 06, 2017, 04:26:25 pm ---No, it was called Fitta, they changed it to Fit in some markets after they realised what the meening was in some languages.
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They might as well left it, imagine the marketing slogans:
"Small on the outside, roomy on the inside."

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