What's Your Favorite Car Named After A Place?

Billy Shakesmen erstwhile asked successful 1 of his plays "what's successful a name?" Well, a full lot. Names tin evoke feelings and moods successful nan listener that tin go permanently associated pinch nan namee. Automakers emotion giving their cars animal names, for instance, that evoke powerfulness aliases strength. Last week, erstwhile I asked you astir your favourite cars pinch animal names, I sewage immoderate cool responses and learned astir cars and animals I didn't cognize about. Neat! I'm recreating a spot of that magic pinch todays question: What's your favourite car named aft a place? 

It tin beryllium real, for illustration nan Volkswagen Taos, aliases imaginary (or rather, mythical) for illustration an Aston Martin Valhalla. It tin beryllium a building, a park, a city, a state or, for illustration my favourite place-named car, a state. It tin moreover beryllium different planet, for illustration nan the Vulcan aliases each Saturn. If you tin guidelines connected it aliases successful it, it counts. 

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Now I cognize what you're thinking: daze maine pinch that deviant choice, Marquis. Another tiny Ghia-designed French car connected Jalopnik. Oh look, it's an affordable roadster pinch nary apical and bully wheels. I cognize I'm not blowing anyone's expectations disconnected their hinges here, but I conscionable deliberation nan Renault Floride is specified a tidy, saccharine small car. More than conscionable a emotion of everything that makes the Floride, known successful nan U.S. and UK arsenic the Caravelle, consciousness for illustration a Florida car. Or astatine slightest nan Florida of nan early 1960s. Like nan tiny small Karmann Ghia, nan Floride was rear-engined and rear-wheel drive, nan car was a deed for Renault (Grace Kelly moreover owned one!) according to Hemmings, but didn't do rather nan aforesaid numbers arsenic Volkswagen's Ghia. 

Eventually Renault dropped nan Floride name, which I deliberation was a mistake. I want to deliberation of nan Florida this car evokes: a sunny thrust done nan Keys to get a tropical portion and adhd different furniture to your perfectly tanned tegument on nan way. Nowadays, Florida conscionable seems for illustration a spot wherever elephantine floating contamination toilets dock, wherever a animation rat shakes kids upside for immoderate is successful their pockets, and where criminals make large numbers connected YouTube. I'll return nan somewhat classier, Grace Kelly-owning, French imagination of nan Sunshine State convey you very much.