GM renames car ... lol for self-love

dammit! i just deleted my post about this because i posted it 1 frickin minute after yours!

anyways - did anyone look at the picture provided in the link? i think it looks very similar to the Chrysler Crossfire.

I can't believe that it took them this long to figure that out.
This car as been at the Detroit Auto Show as a concept for like two years now.

GM officials, who declined to be named, said it had been unaware that LaCrosse was a term for self-gratification among teenagers in French-speaking Quebec.

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"Where's Billy?"
"Oh he must be busy doing the Buick LaCrosse."

You would think a global company like GM would know what certain words mean in different languages.

http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=la%20crosse&langpair=fr|en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=/language_tools

Chevy Nova. No va. It does not go.

I never thought of that!

I'm sure the fine citizens of LaCrosse, Wisconsin are quite happy that the name of their community constitutes a masturbatory act among the youth of french speaking Quebec.

BTW: LAX is a great community, incidentally. Great pork restaurant at Piggy's on Front.

There's got to be a joke about auto-eroticism in here somewhere.

I think it's pretty stupid to change the name because of a slang meaning. Slang often takes innocuous words and gives them dirty meanings -- if you avoid real words that might get twisted around, all you are left with are meaningless names like 'Integra' and 'Impreza'. I prefer names with some history/meaning behind them. So what if teenagers decided that "the cross" means masturbation? Who's buying these cars, adults or teenage kids?

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some errands to run...I'm off to go look for a 'Hummer'