Insect names for cars: Sting is in the tail – Auto Motor Klassiek

Insect names for cars: The sting is in the tail. Being stung by an insect remains a nasty experience every time. Would it therefore perhaps be that different car manufacturers named their cars after such an insect? Or is it more about the venom of such an insect. Usually - unnoticed - super-fast. Try to kill a wasp ...

Wolseley called her newest car the Hornet in 1930. A passenger car with a spicy six-cylinder engine. The less powerful four-pits, usually with a sporty-looking, 'open' bodywork, was called Wasp…

Abarth used the scorpion in her logo. It could not have been unavoidable that a car would ever be named after it. We experienced this in 1968, but the Abarth Scorpione based on the Fiat 850, however, equipped with a heavily boosted Abarth-tuned engine with a cylinder capacity of 1.280 cm3

Lower in price than the Hudson Hornet, the Hudson Wasp also buzzed about it. In the then NASCAR race series it was a formidable competitor. The one shown (from 1951) is part of the Ypsilanti Auto Heritage Collection, in the building of the last Hudson dealer in the States. So in Ypsilanti, Michigan ...

Alec Issigonis called his new "volkswagen" that he designed for Morris Mosquito. That name was soon changed to the previously used and successful name Minor. Even before production started, the planned boxer engine was replaced by a four-in-line. This photo dates from 1944 and is - then - colored ...

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