Yep, when you think about it these are some really strange car names. The author - Rowan Horncastle, over at the BBC (click here) - missed one, however. If you are a car person, and you remember this, then it will so your age. Anyway, remember when Chevy tried to sell a compact car down in South and Central America called the Nova, after the long running US Chevy of the same name? Well, in Spanish the phrase "No va" means "Does not go" So, as you can see there was some reluctance of Latin America drivers to be a car called a Nova.