Do Your Research First

Someone has written an article about car names to prove that (s)he doesn't know anything about cars at all.

Specifically, the part below:

"Tacking a few numbers onto a car's name not only helps it sound cool, it can tell savvy shoppers exactly what the car is packing. The Infiniti QX56 gets the "56" from its 5.6-liter engine and the Infiniti G37 has a 3.7-liter engine. However, the pattern doesn't always hold. While the BMW 3-Series has 3.0-liter engines across the line, so does the BMW 1-Series. And while we'd love to see what a giant engine could do in the BMW 7-Series, that model only has a 4.4-liter V8, not 7.0 liters."

 The part about BMWs reveals sheer lack of research. BMW has traditionally given model designations by indicating the engine displacement by the second and third digits in the name. Recently, this has broken down a bit as the 328i, 330i, and 335i all have 3-liter engines, as the author states. However, that is not to say anything of the 316i (1.6L), 318i (2.0L), and 320i (2.0L). Same story for every BMW model line, from the 1-Series to the (discontinued) 8-Series.

One must be very careful when speaking of car matters, because the people that are interested will notice errors. And the people that are interested are the only people that will bother listening in the first place. Go to any car show to find someone that thinks he knows what he is talking about, but doesn't.

"Trademarks and focus groups: they don’t provide a whole lot of driving excitement, but they've probably kept lots of horrible car names from ever hitting the road."

They couldn't keep such names as "Kia Cee'd" or, well, anything else in the previous article about the worst car names ever.