Car Manufacturers

Who thinks up the names of cars? I mean, whoever decided the makes of Mercedes was clearly a bit stuck for ideas....'Erm..we'll call them A...Class...B Class and C Class, how's that?'

Perhaps they were having a bit of a jolly smoke at the time and thought,
'How about we call them the Mercedes Cannabis or the Mercedis Heroin?'
'You can't do that, that's too controversial!'
'Well how about we just label them by their drug classes?'
'That's a great idea....'

A, B, C, it's such a copout though. It's like Peugeot...'we'll call it the 305, the 106, the 207...'

One day there'll be a Peugeot 8004 or something.

I wonder if cars are meant to say something about you:
'I drive a Volkswagen Polo. Yes I love polo me'
'I drive a Volkswagen Golf. Yes I love a bit of golf.'
'I drive a Volkswagen Foxhunting. Because I like to wear tweed.'

I love it when manufacturers make their car names really exotic, like the Honda Jazz, the Honda Legend. Or the Ford Espace, the Ford Galaxy. Some of them just don't work though.
'I drive a Panda'
'Come right this way to prison please sir'

'I've got an Escort'
'I beg your pardon?'

Surely the least inventive is the Ford Ka though.
'I've got a car'
'What sort?'
'It's a Ka'
'I know that. What sort?'

Hours and hours of confusion.