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It occurred to me the most current crossovers have an X in their name. Is it "crossover" or some indication that it is off road (4X4)... though all are not 4X4 or AWD.
It's a trend and laziness in automotive naming of models/cars.
Remember Acura used to have real names for their cars like: Legend, Integra, NSX actually was a meaningful initialism. Seems like the trend is for these naming schemes.
One thing I actually read about Acura going to these names is the easiness for SEO when people search/talk about those models.
Model X has an interesting backgruond. IIRC, Elon Musk was hoping to name the 3 main Tesla cars Model S, E, X. (Model Y is their next upcoming model. And yes it looks just like what you think he was trying to do, and he pretty much succeeded) But Model E naming was blocked by ford, and so he went with Model 3.
It's a trend and laziness in automotive naming of models/cars.
Remember Acura used to have real names for their cars like: Legend, Integra, NSX actually was a meaningful initialism. Seems like the trend is for these naming schemes.
One thing I actually read about Acura going to these names is the easiness for SEO when people search/talk about those models.
Model X has an interesting backgruond. IIRC, Elon Musk was hoping to name the 3 main Tesla cars Model S, E, X. (Model Y is their next upcoming model. And yes it looks just like what you think he was trying to do, and he pretty much succeeded) But Model E naming was blocked by ford, and so he went with Model 3.
Very interesting about Tesla! I didn't know that! Thanks!
It doesn't have one single meaning, it means different things to different brands. For example the Lincoln MKX was supposed to be read as Mark 10, whereas MDX is an acronym for Multi dimensional Luxury. Some brands use it to denote crossover and some just use it because it sounds cool and it's become synonymous with vehicle nomenclature. So in short it means everything and nothing at the same time.
It doesn't have one single meaning, it means different things to different brands. For example the Lincoln MKX was supposed to be read as Mark 10, whereas MDX is an acronym for Multi dimensional Luxury. Some brands use it to denote crossover and some just use it because it sounds cool and it's become synonymous with vehicle nomenclature. So in short it means everything and nothing at the same time.
Very interesting! MKX = Mark 10. I wonder how many people knew that! You are probably 1 in a million!
Either that or I've been caught napping for the last 10-12 years!
Giving names to vehicles has 'complications' when selling internationally. Chevrolet kind of missed the boat years back with slow sales of the Nova in Spanish speaking countries. They understood why after translating the name from Spanish to English.
Some people abbreviate Crossfit as X-Fit on the internet I've seen, denoting the way the X crosses over itself. So I just assumed X mostly implies crossover in most vehicle names because the X crosses over itself.
01-11-2019, 04:59 PM
