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The five coolest car names

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Maybe the whole industry has just run out of ideas, but most modern car names are either made-up amorphous words or letters and numbers. Boring. Back in the day, cars used to be named after actual things - often, things that told you a lot about the character of the vehicle they were attached to. Didn’t that make them seem so much cooler? Luckily, there are some models that still have monickers with meaning. Here are five of our favourites.

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