Bill: completely agree. The name Imperial is, well, imperious. Kind of non-democratic. Shades of stuffy European royalty, circa 19th Century. Czar Nickolaus. My face name for a car: Alldays and Onions. You can look it up. Currell >From: Imperial59crown@xxxxxxx >Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: IML: The name Imperial >Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 04:47:53 EDT > >Although I love the name Imperial, I think it is a word which has been >overused, and is not exclusive to the car. We have Champagne named after >it, >records, and the worst thing, the margarine. Now if that doesn't cheapen >the >name, along with those terrible commercials where they used to get crowns >on >their heads when they ate the stuff, I don't know what could be a worse >scenario for an elegant car name. Problem is Imperial is used as a >descriptor >for many products, and not as a proper name like Cadillac, and Lincoln. >Maybe >Chrysler would have been better off calling the car the LeBaron, but then >people might think it was French or German. I could see Chrysler doing TV >ads >back in the fifties of a housewife getting into a convertible Imperial, >when >suddenly a crown would appear on her head, and she would turn to the camera >and say, "I must be driving an Imperial Crown!" >Bill '59 Crown > >