Austin
- Maestro (mild sea-to-coast wind in the Adriatic)
Chevy
- Tornado (Mexican pick-up)
- Syclone
- Typhoon
- Bora (ancient Greek name for north wind)
- Ghibli (Libyan wind)
- Karif (Somalian wind)
- Khamsin (hot dusty wind in North Africa and Arabian Peninsula)
- Mistral (wind from the north that blows over the northwest coast of the Mediterranean)
- Shamal (summer wind over Iraq and Persian Gulf)
Pagani:
- Zonda (Andean wind in Argentina)
Yugo (it is not derived from the word Yugoslavia; rather, yugo is a southeasterly wind on the Adriatic)
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What about the Ford Zephyr and the Zonda and the Austin Maestro or if you want a helicopter try the Chinook for size, wind would seem popular for names
Me again , i nearly forgot the Lambourghini 'Diablo'a northern Calafornian version of the Santa Ana wind
Thanks for playing! I'll add the Zephyr. The Diablo is a stretch. There is a wind called that but were the Lambo people thinking-- let's name our next supercar after an obscure Northern California wind? I'm also debating the Maestro thing. Check back soon for an update!
Ford's performance arm in Oz also had a Typhoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPV_F6
PS - seems there was also a Holden Hurricane, but only as a concept - Google knows about it.
Looks like you may have forgotten the Mercury Cyclone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Cyclone
I don't see the most popular of them all... Golf! I had read it has got its name from the Gulfstream (Golfstrom in German). Wikipedia is unsure about it, though (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Golf#Nameplate_etymology)
Nissan Mistral;
Pagani Huayra;
Tramontana - Spanish sportcar;
Gaz Barguzin - Russian car, version of Gaz Gazelle.
And kinda meta, the Talbot Wind:
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/cars/matra/rancho/the-cars-talbot-wind/
There's a specialist manufacturer in Catalunya, Spain that builds a car called the Tramontana, named after the wind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramontana_(sports_car) & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramontane)
chinook helicopter is named after Native American Chinook people of modern-day Washington state, as have many other USA military copters been named in the past.
Lister Storm GT racer from the early 2000s.
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