The Fresh Meaning Brand Language and Brand Naming Agency Blog » Car Model Naming Consultants http://www.freshmeaning.com/blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:53:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Car Model Naming | Alphanumeric Automotive Names http://www.freshmeaning.com/blog/2008/01/car-model-naming-alphanumeric-automotive-names/ http://www.freshmeaning.com/blog/2008/01/car-model-naming-alphanumeric-automotive-names/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:20:12 +0000 Brent http://www.freshmeaning.com/blog/?p=18 Continue reading →]]>

Where are the Gremlins of yesteryear? Or the El Dorados, for that matter?

They are history. The industry is on an increasingly strict diet of alphabet soup with numerical garnish. Alphanumeric nameplates — which consist of nonsensical combinations of letters and numbers — were on 135 models in the 2007 model year, compared with 80 a decade ago, according to Kelley Blue Book.

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