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
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>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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