The name Imperial, and...Onions??
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The name Imperial, and...Onions??



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
>
>


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