Kia Motors America

[Charles Doyle]

Dodge.  Ford.


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:49:46 -0400
>From: Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Kia Motors America
>
>On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Are there other cars with verbs as names?

>
>For starters, there's Volvo (Lat. 'I roll') and Audi (Lat. 'Listen!').
>
>http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/classiccars.htm
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer

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