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AUDI
• Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
• Always Unsafe Designs Implemented
BMW
• Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
• Big Money Works
• Bought My Wife
• Brutal Money Waster
• Break My Window
BUICK
• Big Ugly Indestructable Car Killer
CHEVROLET
• Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
• Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
DODGE
• darn Old Dirty Gas Eater
• Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere
FIAT
• Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
• Fix It All the Time
• Fix it again, Tony!
FORD
• backwards --> Driver Returns On Foot
• First On Recall Day
• First On Rust and Deterioration
• Found On Road, Dead
• Fault Of R&D
• Fast Only Rolling Downhill
• Features O.J. and Ron's DNA
• Flipped Off the Road and Died
GM
• General Maintenance
GMC
• Garage Man's Companion
• Got A Mechanic Coming?
HONDA
• Had One Never Did Again
HYUNDAI
• Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive...
MAZDA
• Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along
MOPAR
• More Old Parts Are Rusted
• My Old Pig Ain't Runnin'
OLDSMOBILE
• Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Every day
• Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment
SAAB
• Send Another Automobile Back
• Swedish Automobiles Always Break down
TOYOTA
• Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto
VOLVO
• Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object
VW
• Virtually Worthless
 
Let's not forget Lotus: Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious
 
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there's the *other* acronym for FORD: F***ed On Race Day
 
DAEWOO: Don't Even Wonder On to the On-ramp
CHRYSLER: Cars Have Really Young Sisters Looking Excitingly Racy
HMMWV: Huh? Many Mud-tires are Way too Vocal (remembering my ringing ears after drving these in the Marines)
HUMMER: Huge Untamed Monster Making Enormous Ruins
JAGUAR: Just Another Gas Using Automotive Rustbucket
MG: Money's Gone
PONTIAC: Poor Old Nelson Thinks It's A Cadallac
SATURN: Stone And Tar Under Road Necesary
SUZUKI: Slow Unmoving Zero Unless Kicked Internally
 
OEM/Performance parts division for Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth

You know... like Toyota has TRD and Nissan has Nismo... Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth has Mopar... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Here's a couple more

FORD:Frequent Opinion,Really Disappointed
:Frequent Overhaul Rapid Deterioration

Datsun /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gifented And Totally Stuffed Under-Neath

Honda :Heap Of Nasty Dented Aluminium

Pontiac :people On Narcotics Think It's A Chev

Holden :Hold On Love darn Engine's Nackered
 
Pehaps a little tasteless under present circumstances but I couldn't resist...

ROVER - Relied On Vain Eastern Rescue

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D'OH! didn't see that one coming...
 
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