• callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What’s always seemed so strange to me is how common the amount of vehicles that steal indigenous names from various places.

    Cherokee (car and a plane)

    Comanche

    Tacoma

    Cheyenne

    Dakota

    Taos

    Pontiac (entire company)

    Winnebago

    Touareg

    Indian (motorcycles)

    Aztek

    Chieftain

    Star Chief

    Super Chief

    Thunderbird

    Chief

    Scout

    Dark Horse

    Qashqai

    Oroch

    Black Hawk

    Chinook

    Apache

    These are all brand names, names of cars, motorhomes, motorcycles, military vehicles, etc. Apparently decades ago, the manufacturers didn’t even shy from how these were named, and there were a lot of questionable ads.

    Probably tons more throughout the world.