AUTO NAME GAMES

 Nameplates on automobiles are interesting.  Many are named after the designer or things easily recognizable.  I've dug up a few that are different.

The most straight forward is Volkswagen.  That word is German for "Peoples' car".  

Kia is Korean translated roughly to "Rising from Asia."

Volvo, the Swedish automaker, is derived from the Latin word meaning "I roll."

Subaru is Japanese for "Pleiades Star Cluster".  See their logo.  

Fiat is, of course, Italian.  They used the first letters of Fabbrica Italiano de Automobili Torino.  That translates to "Italian Car Factory in Torin (Italy)".

This all reminds me of a tongue-in-cheek epitaph I heard years ago.  A digruntled friend said that one of the US automakers' name stands for Fix Or Repair Daily.