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UNKNOWN_370 04-15-2012 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by GNS (Post 1662934)
I don't see anything wrong with 'Quicksilver' for a car name. It means mercury, yes, but Murcielago means bat, a flying rodent that likes to create giant poop mountains filled with flesh-eating beetles.

Anyway it's all Faux News, so it doesn't mean shiz.


Hahahaaa... like the Lamborghini Reventón. Reventón means blowout. So if you buy one will your tires spontaneously combust every trip? :icon18:

alcheng 04-17-2012 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by UNKNOWN_370 (Post 1664182)
Hahahaaa... like the Lamborghini Reventón. Reventón means blowout. So if you buy one will your tires spontaneously combust every trip? :icon18:


Lamborghini names their car after fighting-bulls. It is their tradition, and that's why their company logo is a fighting-bull.

Here is the history of Reventón I copied from Wikipedia:

"The Reventón is named for a fighting bull, in line with Lamborghini tradition. The bull, raised by the Don Heriberto Rodríguez family, was best known for killing famed Mexican bullfighter Félix Guzmán in 1943.[9][10] Reventón means "explosion" or "burst" in Spanish, when used as a noun.[11][12] In the vernacular, it is also used to define a very large party or a night in town. In automotive terms, it means "blowout, flat tire" when used as a noun.[13] When it was used as the name of a bull, however, it was intended to be interpreted as an adjective, a quality or property of that bull in particular. In this last sense, Reventón means "he who seems to be about to burst" "


:tiphat: :tiphat:


Since Reventón means "flat tire" in automotive terms, we can call it Lamborghini Flat-Tire.


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