Vehicles named after Geography

[Drew Dowdell]

How many vehicles named after geography can you think of?

I'll start.

Sierra

[Robert Hall]

Laredo.

And ones named after places in my favorite state---Colorado, Durango, Aspen

[GMTruckGuy74]

Yukon

Monte Carlo

Cheyenne (ok, I know it's just a trim level!)

Bel Air

Savana (though it's not spelled correctly as Savannah)

Kodiak

Tahoe

Sonoma

Bonneville

[the_yellow_dart]

Lots of examples just from GM: (not an exhaustive list)

Acadia

Malibu

Monte Carlo

Bonneville

Montana

LeMans

Yukon

Rainier

[Drew Dowdell]

Well, I don't think Sonoma, Monte Carlo and Bel Air count. Those are cities. Looking for physical geography.

[§carlet §wordfish]

Canyon

Terrain

Outback

[z28luvr01]

Rio

[Camino LS6]

Laguna

Daytona

Place-names are geography, Drew.

Continental

Versailles

Edited January 31, 2012 by Camino LS6

[crunksoulbrotha!!`]

Seville

[Justin Bimmer]

Catalina

[Camino LS6]

Riviera

[Camino LS6]

Montego

Monterey

Torino

Newport

Monaco

Cordoba

[balthazar]

New Yorker

Nassau

Savoy

Southhampton

St Regis

Edited January 31, 2012 by balthazar

[SAmadei]

Just off the top of my head...

Sebring

Daytona

Eldorado (though it is technically mythical and should be El Dorado)

Pontiac is a place... but its not what Pontiac is named after.

[Lamar]

Santa Fe

Tucson

Veracruz

Bavaria (for that matter, BMW)

Pacifica

Park Avenue

Fifth Avenue

Monaco

Montana

Aspen

That's about all I got right now...

[Turbojett]

Tundra?

Savana (though it's not spelled correctly as Savannah)

That name was already taken by Mazda: the RX3 was a trim level of the first generation Mazda Savanna (less the H; there were piston-engined versions of the Savanna), and later, it reappeared as the home market fore-name of the first two generations of RX7. (in case you were wondering, the third generation RX7 was called Efini, which is a Japanization of the word infinity; which had previously been a trim level on the FC Savanna RX7.)

Edited January 31, 2012 by Turbojett

[thedriver]

Dakota

[Robert Hall]

LaCrosse

Silverado

Scottsdale

Palm Beach (GMC motor home trim level)

Edited January 31, 2012 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[vonVeezelsnider]

Biscayne

Meteor Niagara and Meteor Rideau

Corisca

[Blake Noble]

How about the Buick Somerset? Because when I think of cars, I know the first thing I think of is a large lake community in southern Kentucky.*

*although, to be fair, they are the car cruise capitol of KY

[Hudson]

Palm Beach (GMC motor home trim level)

Also a Buick LeSabre trim level.

[vonVeezelsnider]

I also seem to recall either a Palm Beach or South Beach trim level on the Grand Marquis as well.

[Drew Dowdell]

Cordoba

Alpina

[FAPTurbo]

How about the 'Wave' in Pontiac G3 Wave?

[Drew Dowdell]

a Wave is geography?

[Blake Noble]

A few more I thought of ...

• Tacoma (Why Toyota named that truck after a town in Washington state is curious.)
  
• Olympia (More Washington state goodness from Opel. Yes, I am choosing to ignore Greece.)
  
• Monaco (Don't know if it's already been listed.)
  

Edited January 31, 2012 by black-knight

[vonVeezelsnider]

One more from Washington State: Rainier

Edited February 1, 2012 by vonVeezelsnider

[Turbojett]

(Renault) Alpine

Nearly every Ferrari--Maranello, Modena, Fiorano, Italia, (Super)America...

Chevy Monza

[balthazar]

Palm Beach (GMC motor home trim level)

Also a Buick LeSabre trim level.

Also a Rambler concept car.