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List of Automobile Acronyms

AMC

  • All Makes of Cars
  • A Mini Can

AUDI

  • Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
  • Always Unsafe Designs Implemented

BMW

  • Babbling Mechanical Wench
  • BART / Muni / Walking (transportation in San Francisco)
  • Basic Marin Wheels
  • Beastly Monstrous Wonder
  • Beautiful Masterpieces on Wheels
  • Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
  • Big Money Waste
  • Big Money. Why?
  • Big Money Works
  • Blasphemous Motorized Wreck
  • Born Moderately Wealthy
  • Bought My Wife
  • Break My Windows
  • Break My Windshield
  • Bring Many Wrenches
  • Broken Money Waster
  • Broken Monstrous Wonder
  • Brutal Money Waster
  • Bumbling Mechanical Wretch

BUICK

  • Big Ugly Immitation Chrome King
  • Big Ugly Import Car Killer
  • Big Ugly Indestructable Car Killer
  • Big Ugly Indestructable Compact Killer

CHEVROLET

  • Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
  • Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips
  • Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
  • Cracked Heads, Every Valve's Rotten, Oil Leaks Every Time

CHEVY

  • CHarged HEaVilY
  • Cheapest Heap Ever Visioned Yet
  • Cruddy Hick Engine, Very Yucky

DODGE

  • Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater
  • Dead Old Dog Going East
  • Dead On Day Guarantee Expires
  • Dead On Delivery - Go Easy
  • Dead On Delivery, Guarantee Expired
  • Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter
  • Drips Oil, Drops Grease, Everywhere

EDSEL

Every Day Something Else Leaks

FIAT

  • Failed In A Tunnel
  • Failure In Automotive Technology
  • Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
  • Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation
  • Fix It Again, Tony!
  • Fix It All the Time
  • Flats In All Tires
  • Found In A Trench
  • Futile Italians Attempt Transportation

FORD

  • backwards --> Driver Returns On Foot
  • backwards --> Driver Returned On Foot
  • Fails On Rainy Days
  • Fastest On Road, Dip!
  • First On Race Day
  • First On Recall Day
  • First On Road to Dump
  • First On Rust and Deterioration
  • Fix Or Repair Daily
  • Flip Over, Read Directions
  • Found On Road, Dead
  • Found On a Rubbish Dump
  • Found Outside Refuse Dump (Ref'use)
  • Found Outside Rotting Dump
  • Funny Old Rattling Dump
  • Fraternal Order of Restored DeSotos
  • ****ed On Race Day
  • Frequent Overhaul, Rapid Deterioration
  • Forwarded Once; Return Denied (Forward Only; Reverse Defective)
  • Flying Over Rio DeJaneiro
  • Found On Red Dumpster
  • Formed Of Rejected/Random/Recessive/Remaindered DNA
  • Friggin' Ol' Rebuilt Dodge
  • Fix Or Recycle Dilemma
  • Fault Of R&D
  • ****ed Over Rebuilt Dodge
  • ****! Our Ride Died!
  • Final Organ of Reproductive Discipline
  • Follow Our Ruddy Dogsled
  • Fond Of Resonating Decibels
  • Finally Obsolete Racing Device
  • Fabricated Of Refried Dung
  • Forgot Our Recommended Defaults
  • Foot On Road Decelerates
  • First Order of Reproductive Discipline
  • For Old, Rotten Deadbeat
  • Flintstone Or Rubble Driven
  • Fireball On Rear Denting
  • Frequently On Ritalin Designers
  • Fantastically Orgasmic Realistic Dream
  • Found On Russian Dump
  • Failed On Research & Development
  • Fatal Oral/Rectal Delivery
  • Famous Odor Resistant Dog
  • Forlorn, Old, Ratridden Dustbin
  • Fatally Obese Redneck Driver (onboard)
  • Falling Off: Rusty Door
  • Free Or Reduced Drastically
  • Forced On Reluctant Drivers
  • Frequent Opinion: Really Disappointed
  • Found On Redneck's Driveway
  • Fumes and Odors Readily Detectable
  • Fast Only Rolling Downhill
  • Features O.J. and Ron's DNA
  • Flipping Over Results in Death
  • Flipped Over Roadside Disaster

Ford Acronyms *Incomplete*

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  • F O R DNA
  • F O Return Denied
  • Found Outside R D
  • Fly Over R D
  • Failing Out R D
  • F O Rattling D
  • F O Run Down

GM

  • General Maintenance
  • Goddarned Mess

GMC

  • Garage Man's Companion
  • Generally Mediocre Cars
  • German Milk Cow
  • Get More Chicks
  • Got More Cr*p
  • Got Maintenance Coming
  • Got a Mechanic Coming / Gotta Mechanic Coming

HONDA

Had One Never Did Again

HYUNDAI

  • How Your Usual Nerd Drives An Import
  • Hope You Understand Nothing's Drivable And Inexpensive...

IROC

  • I Race Other Cars
  • I Run Over Children
  • I'd Rather Own a Corvette
  • I'm Really Out of Cash
  • It's Really Only a Camaro
  • Italian Retard Out Cruising

JEEP

Just Eats Every Part

LTD

  • Long Term Debt
  • Lousy Transportation, Dammit!
  • Little Tin Dream
  • Last Try from Detroit
  • Long, Thin Dumpster
  • Long Time Driving

MAZDA

Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along

MG

Money Guzzler

MITSUBISHI

Mostly In The Shop Undergoing Big Investments, Sometimes Halfway Incomplete

MOPAR

  • Miscellaneous Oddball Parts Assembled Ridiculously
  • Most Often Passed At Races
  • Mostly Old Paint And Rust
  • Mostly Old Parts And Rust
  • My Old Pig Ain't Running
  • My Only Problems Are Repairs

OLDS

One Leak, Dead Starter

OLDSMOBILE

  • Oh, Look, Dammit! Some Massive Oil Burning Idiot's Leaking Everything.
  • Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Every day.
  • Old Loose Dented Sheet Metal Out-dated By Infamies Like Edsel.
  • Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment

PINTO

Put In Nickel To Operate

PLYMOUTH

Please Let Your Mother Out from Under The Hood

PONTIAC

  • Poor Old Ninny Thinks It's A Cadillac
  • Puts Out Noxious Toxins In All Cities

PORSCHE

  • Piece Of Retired Scrap, Continually High Expense
  • Probably Obtained Recently Since Car-owner Hocked Everything

PROBE

Plainly Runs Only By Exception

SAAB

  • Still Ain't A Beamer
  • Send Another Automobile Back
  • Stupid, Arrogant Arsehole Babies
  • Such An Arrogant B**tard
  • Swedish Automobile - Always Broken
  • Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown.
  • Swedish Automobiles Are Best

SUBARU

(backwards) U-R-A-Bus

TOYOTA

Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto

VW

  • Virtually Worthless
  • (BEETLE) Battered Everywhere, Expect To Lose Engine

Related to Driving

  • STOP = Stop Tires On Pedestrians
  • STOP = Squeal Tires On Pavement
  • STOP = State Trooper Out Passing

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