06_AtenzaKid said:
I totally agree with you on this, I have always been confused why they take great vehicles from Japan and water them down for our market. Unless the name means something else in our language just keep it the same name!!
What would be worse, a name where you are unsure of it's meaning.....at first, or changing the name to some inately ridiculous thing like "camry" or "sentra" whatever they mean or maybe an animal or whatever.
Was the name "Jazz" so bad in the other 50 countries the Honda Fit is sold in so bad that it had to be changed? Of course their are alot that have been changed, needlessly.
Frankly we are lucky they even brought this here at all...countless times really incredible cars are never even given a chance in our market. Such as the Skyline (which is finally coming but not the original that made the name what it is, and it's name will be "GTR" instead...whatever) all the japanese Honda "type R" vehicles, or the kick ass European version Focus and Escorts that were unbelievable and we got some watered down edition that is an evolution behind their version, and even the newest one coming out is joke.
At least GM has wised up to the great work that Holden is doing for them in Australia and finally using some of their cars here (i.e. the Monaro "GTO", and the new Commodore "G8" that is coming soon).
Sorry to rant...it drives me nuts!(help)
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