Car buffs - strange questions on automobile history

[59sled]

So once again my mind was just wondering at work today and got me thinking about auto manufactures. I searched the internet with no luck so I thought I would throw it out here for a little debate.

1. What year did car manufactures start giving cars fictional names instead of calling them just what they really were?

2. Who was the first manufacture to give it a fictional name?

 

[LR3]

The true fictional names started with the original model T from Ford. It was commonly called "Tin Lizzy" and that was what they were known as. Automotive manafactures didn't start until the 30s and 40s. The earliest that I know of is the Pobtiac Bonaville. It wasn't until the 1950s that they really got into more then one name for a car i.e corvette, bel air, imperial, thunderbird, skylark, etc.

 

[slobin3d]

when was the phantom first made?

 

[JasonInAugusta]

http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm

 

[59sled]

The true fictional names started with the original model T from Ford. It was commonly called "Tin Lizzy" and that was what they were known as. Automotive manafactures didn't start until the 30s and 40s. The earliest that I know of is the Pobtiac Bonaville. It wasn't until the 1950s that they really got into more then one name for a car i.e corvette, bel air, imperial, thunderbird, skylark, etc.

I thought Tin Lizzy was a nick name what the car owners called it, not Ford it's self.

 

[EeePee]

I'll guess Honda Civic.

 

[microgoat]

1907, Rolls-Royce introduced the Silver Ghost.

 

[tcrawlerace]

Francis and Freelan Stanley produced their first automobile in 1897.

1898-99 they produced and sold over 200 cars.

In 1902 they formed the Stanley Motor Carriage Company.

In 1906 a Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile.

The Stanley Steamer was sometimes nicknamed "The Flying Teapot".

This nickname was not the manufacturer's tag, but clearly, early on in automotive history, consumers got the notion to hang fictional names on cars.

(Courtesy of Wikipedia. Where any twelve year old can submit their research to become the gospel of everyone else.)

 

[LR3]

I thought Tin Lizzy was a nick name what the car owners called it, not Ford it's self.

That's what I said. I said "commonly referred to as tin lizzy"

 

[towjockeyrc10]

ok well daimler benz started daimler motor company and named the first automobile the mercedes after his daughter hence the mercedes benz was born. but the name of the car was not the name of the company."thumbsup"