If you're an automaker with some serious prestige behind your name, such as Mercedes-Benz, it makes sense to give your cars alphanumeric names. Whether or not a name like "GLS580" makes any sense or ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, muscle cars were successful with the young car-buying demographic, not just with power and style, but also with cool model names. For the first few decades after cars ...

It's one thing to build an excellent car. It's something completely different to try and sell it in big numbers in a crowded, competitive world market. That's why marketing plays such a big role. The ...

Being cool is totally subjective. It depends on the audience and personal taste. It’s the reason a ’64 Porsche 911 might draw a bigger crowd at a Cars and Coffee than the brand-new Lamborghini parked ...

American carmakers were slow to catch on to the power of a great model name to market a car and create a legacy. The Ford Model T changed the world, but it got its name from the fact that Henry Ford ...

A kei car isn't going to be the perfect car for everyone, but how can you not at least love the idea? They're tiny, practical, use their space incredibly efficiently, and perhaps most importantly of ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, American carmakers devised several clever marketing strategies to promote their high-performance vehicles. Among those were cool names that gave the potent V8s at the heart ...