Talk:Mitsubishi Carisma

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This is a european car, so I'm changing the liftback to hatchback I also added the missed out DI-D diesel engine

Name origin[edit]

OK, I know it's cited right from the manufacturer, so it'd be a hard sell to actually change the article, but...

The model name was derived from a combination of the English "car" and the Greek "kharisma", meaning "divine gift".

Oh, come onnnnn. It's a combination of the English "car", and the English "charisma", meaning "charisma", aka charm, personality, vivaciousness, etc. It was widely criticised in the motoring press as a poor joke of a name, because the car was sorely lacking in any of its namesake qualities. I think even the "car" bit is simply convenient. The whole thing smacks of a PR division being presented with the model and its name as a fait accompli and having to scrabble to produce some kind of explanation other than "the model naming think-tank originally wanted to call it 'Charisma', implying that it was possessed of innate charm and energy, but then found you're not allowed to trademark random words from the dictionary* so dropped the 'h' and made it into a terrible pun"... and some poor bugger amongst them happened to be flipping through a greek phrasebook at the time and came across that little translingual nugget...

(* henceforth and therefore Vauxhall no longer make the Victor (later Cavalier), but the Vectra (now Insignia); nor the Nova, instead the Corsa; nor the Manta, instead the Astra VXR; nor the Carlton, instead the Signum; nor the Bedford Rascal, instead the Agila and Meriva ... and so on and so forth for other companies. Ford, I guess, simply don't care, hence the Fiesta and Focus (nee Escort), Mustang and Cobra, plus the occasional reminder that the Mondeo is called "Contour" when it goes back to visit its parents, Sierra and Granada. That or it's OK when you're using foreign words - especially Spanish towns, what with Nissan getting in on the act with Almera, panicking slightly after renaming the March to the Micra and not quite knowing what to do with their "Almond" prototype** - and Focus, like Gullible, isn't actually in the dictionary and we've all imagined it. Apparently the same thing is the case with numbers, which is why Renault dropped them in favour of using French girls' names, and Intel gave up on number-only designations for its CPUs after the 486 ... quite what that means for the BMW and Mercedes lines is anyone's guess...)

((** It's entirely possible that bit is a deliberate piece of fiction, but the rest of it's true)) 193.63.174.211 (talk) 12:59, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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