So what does your vehicle say about you?

**Grange** · 10-23-2003, 02:24 PM

Yahoo News

MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - General Motors Corp will rename its Buick LaCrosse in Canada because the name for the car is slang for masturbation in Quebec, embarrassed officials with the U.S. automaker said on Thursday.

GM officials, who declined to be named, said it had been unaware that LaCrosse was a term for self-gratification among teenagers in French-speaking Quebec.

GM officials in Canada are working on a new name for the car, a sedan that will go on sale next year to replace the Buick Regal.

The mix-up is reminiscent of another GM vehicle with an unfortunate name. In the 1970s, GM exported its Chevrolet Nova to Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries, only to be told that Nova translated into "doesn't go". Despite the name, and contrary to popular folklore, the car sold well.

My old home hill is called Mt. La Crosse.

**Lumpy** · 10-23-2003, 02:27 PM

Currently mine says I'm a chronic cell phone babbler who doesn't pay close enough attention to the traffic flow around me...as is evident by the smashed front end. In layman's terms...it screams typical dumbshit Utah driver.

**Beaver** · 10-23-2003, 02:30 PM

They sell the "Vibe." Why not la crosse?

**trainnvain** · 10-23-2003, 02:35 PM

The probe was a big seller too.Hmmm.

**East Coast** · 10-23-2003, 04:17 PM

Hey... I play lacrosse, and it's a popular sport in Canada...

**The AD** · 10-23-2003, 04:20 PM

Originally posted by Grange
GM officials, who declined to be named, said it had been unaware that LaCrosse was a term for self-gratification among teenagers in French-speaking Quebec.

This is a major concern because so many teenagers buy Buicks

**crstlextrm** · 10-23-2003, 04:23 PM

i havent washed my truck in months, there are unfixed dents everywhere, windshields cracked, has 180,000 miles on it. Id say my vehicle says that im a ski bum, but im not....yet.

**basom** · 10-23-2003, 04:29 PM

Originally posted by trainnvain
The probe was a big seller too.Hmmm.

my probe says i'm an assman. right there on the vanity plate.

**Steven S. Dallas** · 10-23-2003, 04:40 PM

I don't care what it says about me, I'm keeping my 1977 Buick LeDouchebag. Only two more payments and it's mine.

**Tavi** · 10-23-2003, 04:44 PM

Originally posted by The AD
This is a major concern because so many teenagers buy Buicks

That's exactly what I was thinking. Fairly popular with the kids now days, right along with Frank Sinatra and leather ski boots.

**Buster Highmen** · 10-23-2003, 05:01 PM

My car says that I'm an unmitigated differential of the Grand Zucchini. Wads of protruding greeness obscure the sparkly dark nodules of prescient monoxides while fattening the alreading bulging wallets of the ruling class. It's leather interior smells of dead dreams, washed down the sewers of infantile struttings and imagined well being. The days have gone by, there's the beautiful house, the beautiful wife and the beautiful car but the void of an empty Dorito bag. Really, it smells more like an empty Dorito bag with a nuance of Mickey's 40 oz'ers and a nage of ralph.
My car longs to assert that it's part of a stable of stability, a fleet of divine landyachts, a passle of Pontiacs, but really it's not. It's just another mediocre, run of the mill clot of mangled metal, vinyl and rubber trying to look like more.
My car says I don't feed it enough. It says I don't use enough lube. It says I don't keep the oil topped up and that I run it too hard before it's warmed up.
My car is looking for a new owner. It doesn't like me.

**Pinner** · 10-23-2003, 05:14 PM

My car says, "scofflaw."

**Beaver** · 10-23-2003, 05:24 PM

My truck says "GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY WAY OR I'LL MASH IN YOUR GRILL WITH THIS BIG ASS BUMPER"

**funkendrenchman** · 10-23-2003, 05:34 PM

"Just because you put some cheap E-bay stickers on the side of me, does not mean I am a Subaru World Rally Car."

**watersnowdirt** · 10-23-2003, 05:36 PM

My car, the Subaru Forester, pretty much screams suburban mom who likes outdoor stuff. Even though I'm not a mom.

**Telenater** · 10-23-2003, 06:10 PM

Right now, my car says "Wash Me"

KQ · 10-23-2003, 06:13 PM

Originally posted by Buster Highmen
My car says that I'm an unmitigated differential of the Grand Zucchini. Wads of protruding greeness obscure the sparkly dark nodules of prescient monoxides while fattening the alreading bulging wallets of the ruling class. It's leather interior smells of dead dreams, washed down the sewers of infantile struttings and imagined well being. The days have gone by, there's the beautiful house, the beautiful wife and the beautiful car but the void of an empty Dorito bag. Really, it smells more like an empty Dorito bag with a nuance of Mickey's 40 oz'ers and a nage of ralph.
My car longs to assert that it's part of a stable of stability, a fleet of divine landyachts, a passle of Pontiacs, but really it's not. It's just another mediocre, run of the mill clot of mangled metal, vinyl and rubber trying to look like more.
My car says I don't feed it enough. It says I don't use enough lube. It says I don't keep the oil topped up and that I run it too hard before it's warmed up.
My car is looking for a new owner. It doesn't like me.

You drive an Audi Quattro Wagon fer cryin' out loud!!! It says you're a yuppie.

**Clack** · 10-23-2003, 06:18 PM

"I eat audis, shit subarus, and pick my teeth with telephone poles"

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic12056.jpg

**char** · 10-23-2003, 06:21 PM

"Drive me to Tahoe for the summit."

**Ferniefreeheels** · 10-23-2003, 07:27 PM

All mine says is that I'm fackin' poor...not really true though I just prefer spending my money on toys...my mt bike is probably worth more than my pickup!!