T Mac
11-05-2006, 09:14 PM
What’s in a name? The GTB in Ferrari 599 GTB stands for Gran Turismo Berlinetta. The SLR in Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren stands for Sport, Light, Racing.
So what, then, was Honda trying to say when it christened its soft-roader the CR-V? It wasn’t Cool Racing Van or even (as I and others have believed for some years) Compact Recreational Vehicle. In fact it stands for Comfortable Runabout Vehicle, which may just be the blandest description any manufacturer has ever coined to describe one of its cars.
By Andrew Frankel
Click here (http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12929-2435789,00.html) to read the entire review from Times Online (UK)
So what, then, was Honda trying to say when it christened its soft-roader the CR-V? It wasn’t Cool Racing Van or even (as I and others have believed for some years) Compact Recreational Vehicle. In fact it stands for Comfortable Runabout Vehicle, which may just be the blandest description any manufacturer has ever coined to describe one of its cars.
By Andrew Frankel
Click here (http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12929-2435789,00.html) to read the entire review from Times Online (UK)