Posted On May 17, 2006

I’d really like to know where they got this one

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So I’m heading to the game tonight, and pull up behind a Mercedes (sp?) at the light. It’s a nice looking car, but it’s name surprised me. Imagine driving around in a Benz “Kompressor”!   For some reason, this car doesn’t strike me as very safe. I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be compressed by any vehicle, much less the one I own! “This car is the Kompressor”. The marketing campaign seems like it would be tough also. What were the Car-name thinkers….ah…..thinking when they came up with this one?!  If anyone has a good explanation for this, I’d love to hear it.  


Side note: How cool would it be to get paid to name cars! There has got to be someone that has that job. There are paid ice cream taste-testers, I saw it on TV. (Rock solid dependable information right there.) So you know there has to be a car-naming guy.

3 thoughts on “I’d really like to know where they got this one”

  • ooh ooh, you could like invent a “car naming system” like… the name of a mythological creature, you’re favorite number, a call sign and something that sounds like it could represent speed, you’d come up with something like

    Centaur7FoxtrotSwoosh
    or
    Naiad12CharlieZoom

    maybe these are too long how about just a call sign and a number

    Echo3, Bravo6, …cant remember any other call signs. You get the picture, do I get the job?

  • Actually, kompressor means supercharged in German (as you know Mercedes Benz is a German company) and it also means that the car has a 4 cylinder engine. So they didnt name it kompressor for no reason at all….

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