All outdoors-y
After all, it’s not just a truck:
As you are driving around the snoburbs, have you ever noticed that SUVs the size of small farms in Ohio always have names like Yukon Denali, Mountaineer and Tahoe, which evoke spring-fed mountain streams and nymphs frolicking through waterfalls?
Nymphs frolicking through waterfalls? Put me down for a Mercedes-Benz G-class with the Rhinegold package.
Actually, I’ve always wondered if maybe GMC’s clone of the Chevy Silverado truck, the Sierra, was so named specifically to annoy the Sierra Club. And it seems to be de rigueur to give SUVs Western-sounding names; they don’t name these beasties after Eastern towns. (Exception: Hyundai’s Veracruz, though it’s the east of Mexico.) So far, only the Germans are bucking the trend on a regular basis, though I’ll admit to being mystified by Volkswagen’s Tiguan, which we’re supposed to believe is half tiger, half iguana.
fillyjonk »
30 August 2008 · 11:19 am
“Put me down for a Mercedes-Benz G-class with the Rhinegold package.”
Just be careful they don’t install the Valkyrie option by mistake.
CGHill »
30 August 2008 · 11:21 am
That’s the package with the front skid plate, right?
Scott »
30 August 2008 · 11:38 am
Uh-uh. No way, no how. Half-tiger, half-iguana? Seriously? That’s world-class Idiocracy-level marketing there. Good to know we’re not in this alone.
Steve McDonald »
30 August 2008 · 12:18 pm
I want a Canyonero.
Jeffro »
30 August 2008 · 12:45 pm
Oh Lord, won’tcha buy me a Mercedes Benz
Brian J. »
30 August 2008 · 8:02 pm
I dunno. Maybe I’d put myself on the list for the Dodge Hoboken. I mean, the name pretty much describes a basic tenet of my philosophy.