Sexy Car Names | Vauxhall ‘Scores’

Men think about sex every six seconds, so the legend goes.

But it could be more than that.

If you look at any car magazine or car manufacturer’s website these days, you’d be hard pressed to deny it. What is it with motoring journalists that they cannot be content with providing us with facts and figures about the cars they are trying to sell, but instead they have to resort to sexual innuendo to get their point across?

Stiff chassis you can easily throw around; good, strong grip; dynamic chassis; sleek, sexy body; nice curves, the list of double entendres is endless (perhaps just for those that have a dirty mind).

Is it just that providing information about car parts, engine capacity and fuel is so dull that motoring writers feel the need to spice things up a bit, or, is it rather because a man’s car is a status symbol and therefore needs to be sexy? Like the footballer who has a hot blonde on his arm, a man likes to feel that his car should be his ‘trophy bird’?

For as long as cars (and indeed other modes of transport) have existed, men have referred to their pride and joy in female terms and have used the pronoun ‘she’ when talking about their car’s performance- unlike their ‘other’ pride and joy, of course, which is always given a masculine name. And quite rightly so.

Many car manufacturers have clearly cottoned onto the idea that sex sells. Sensing a man’s tendency to ‘feminise’ his car, top car maker Vauxhall has wisely given its cars names that could be considered female, presumably in the hope that female names will get male consumers hot under the collar and eager to put their hands in their pocket… to get their wallet out and buy a car, I mean… (you, my friend, have a dirtier mind than me).

Vauxhall’s range of car names mostly end in the letter ‘a’ and for those of you who remember your schoolboy Latin, or indeed have studied romance languages, you will know that words ending in ‘a’ are usually feminine.

Agila, Vectra, Insignia, Corsa, Zafira, Meriva, Astra, Tigra…they all sound like female Goddesses who are about to give you… well, to coin a much-loved motoring journalistic expression… the ride of your life!

What are the other sexiest car names out there today?

SOURCE: Vauxhall.co.uk