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The Detroit Fish and other ridiculous car names

detroit_fish.jpg As a tribute to the ongoing Shanghai Auto Show, car blog Jalopnik has posted their list of the ten worst Chinese car names. Our favorite: the Tang Hua Detroit Fish, which takes the cake for not just sounding like possibly the most unappetizing seafood dish in the Midwest, but is also an amphibious car with giant holes.

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  • shangpudi

    Did anyone else conjure images of Bart Simpson? Or Marge Simpson's hair? Must be today's rain affecting brain synapse.

  • EL JEFE

    The exhaust comes out in streams of bubbles.

  • taihanasie

    Buck, I don't know why you took the bait either. Joshie's response is much more offensive than anything you said, and should be reported. Joshie, you need to cool it. As for Detroit, the fact that the local American car industry has been trailing other carmakers in the design department is not news. Even the central government's demands for restructuring take into account the need for better, more relevant designs. As for the dioxins, my suggestion is to hold your ire for the time when questionable product quality is not as endemic to Chinese manufacturing. The shoe, in both cases, certainly does fit.



    The car itself looks cool. I can imagine a fleet of them as shuttles in a resort or casino somewhere.

  • Buck Rogerz

    Ok, I don't know why, but I'll take the bait.



    I know it's from China and just was referring to the name. Badly named as the article points out, but a respectable aesthetic.



    I've got no beef with Detroit whatsoever. Who could begrudge the city that gave us Smokey Robinson, Eminem, and the Buick LeSabre?



    It's important to remember that there are actual cities on the receiving end of our flippant, stupid remarks. Didn't mean to tear, shit, or kick on anything in Detroit or Shanghai. So if you reside in either location, my apologies to both cities, their citizens and officials who are doing a fantastic job.

  • kristhedabendan

    You just got stuck in eh Joishie?



    Yeh... amphibious car with holes. Detroit is so dumb.

  • joishie

    This car isn't from Detroit, asshole, it's from China. It was first showcased at the Detroit Auto Show in 2008, maybe you've heard of it?



    What the hell is your beef with Detroit now anyway? Aren't you too busy trying to take a shit on a Shanghaiist? Or are you failing at that so miserably that you have to try to kick a downtrodden city when it's already at its lowest point in years?



    Way to go, you win the douchebag of the day prize, you prick.

  • Buck Rogerz

    That is way classy, like everything from Detroit. It must come fully loaded with dioxins.



    The car's design isn't all-bad. It looks a cross between a golf-cart and a big, yellow bean.

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