"Cute as a Bug..."

Well, since I need a new job.... As I was sitting behind a car today, I was thinking that I would like to be a car namer. I've thought about this before... They definitely save the good names, like they do the good colors, for the more expensive cars... like Tahoe, Aspen, and Malibu. It's the crappy car names that crack me up --- Like "Aspire" -- Really?! That really is the name of a crappy car. Ha! So we ASPIRE to get a better car?! There used to be the "Tracer." What's up with THAT? What in the world is a Tracer? With a little research (thank God for Google) I found that the very first official subcompact car was the Gremlin. Hahahaha!! This just strikes me as funny. Then there was the Pinto and the Escort. Again, ugh. Who wants to say, "I drive a Pinto." Isn't that a BEAN? Then there was the Ford Fiesta. Now that's looking ahead. It's sort of like, "well, I have a crappy car, so I guess I'll go party?" They even changed it to the Festiva later. Then there was the Geo. I guess they were trying to give it a forward- thinking sound, like geometrical? Kind of futuristic sounding?

Now today the car I was behind was a Yaris. What the heck does THAT mean? We also have the Rio (which I have affectionately called the Dia-Rio.) And then there's the Honda Fit. This is probably my favorite name for a subcompact. At first you think, yes, I am physically fit, but then I realized that they probably meant that the car would easily FIT into a tiny parking space, that most other cars won't. And then there's my favorite of all... the Beetle. the Bug. They are just "cute as a bug." They're sort of the UN-car.
Hmmm... I want THAT job....