Porsche Gives Mission E A Name For Production. Can You Come Up With Something WORSE? We Say NO!

Porsche Gives Mission E A Name For Production. Can You Come Up With Something WORSE? We Say NO!
Today was a momentous day in Porsche history. That's because the company did something unprecedented.

If someone says it's because the storied marque announced that it will be producing a fully electric auto, they're wrong. That's because we're pretty confident the sports car manufacturer may have done the unthinkable.

It gave its all-new electric vehicle (EV) the worst possible name for a production automobile.

It will be called the Taycan.

No, that is not a joke.

After giving it some thought, Agent 001 and I are pretty sure that you cannot come up with something worse than the Taycan. And we thought Volkswagen using Touareg was bad.

According to Porsche, Taycan means the equivalent of a "spirited young horse." OK. Did the manufacturer come up with that because every other good name was tayken? Can YOU take a stab at what Taycan means the equivalent of?

Can YOU come up with a WORSE name for Porsche's all-new EV?

What say you, Spies?







pcar4evrpcar4evr - 6/9/2018 1:34:15 AM
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Tincan?


Agent00RAgent00R - 6/9/2018 9:34:17 AM
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:)


SanJoseDriverSanJoseDriver - 6/9/2018 2:34:23 AM
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Toycan?


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/9/2018 7:40:24 AM
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Tawquishia


carloslassitercarloslassiter - 6/9/2018 9:54:14 AM
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Well, it should play better in France than Étron.


USNA1999USNA1999 - 6/9/2018 10:05:28 AM
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Tucan? OMG who comes up with the names at the VW group?


HenryNHenryN - 6/9/2018 1:39:10 PM
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The Mission E is a great name for a car with great potential. But its look and killer performance seem too much for the company to handle. Its first victim would be the Panamara. I guess the ICE division at Porsche won the battle. The new name draws direct reference to VW, and that alone would prevent many potential buyers from even considering it.


PUGPROUDPUGPROUD - 6/9/2018 2:35:41 PM
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Taken


dumpstydumpsty - 6/10/2018 4:52:02 PM
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Porsche Taken...lol

It'll look similar to the Q8. A coupe SUV was approved to spread costs across the subsidiaries - Touareg/Q8/Cayenne coupe/Urus.


mre30mre30 - 6/9/2018 5:03:49 PM
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They should call it the Porsche Blitz. Blitz is the German word for lightning.

The could also call it the Porsche Ampere - which is the German word for amperage. The Ampere is an excellent name because it rhymes with "Ferry" as is Ferdinand "Ferry" Porsche.


CANADIANCOMMENTSCANADIANCOMMENTS - 6/9/2018 5:25:05 PM
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So very sad. The badge delete option will be taken by a high number of buyers I suspect. I'd tell people I got a Mission-E and leave it at that or a Panamera-E.
Dumb idea, but blame all those in the room who voted for it over any other option.


MrEEMrEE - 6/9/2018 7:21:36 PM
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Edison


carloslassitercarloslassiter - 6/9/2018 7:21:37 PM
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They should call it the Porsche Blitz. Blitz is the German word for lightning.

The could also call it the Porsche Ampere - which is the German word for amperage. The Ampere is an excellent name because it rhymes with "Ferry" as is Ferdinand "Ferry" Porsche.
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Honestly, those are even worse than Taycan. If you're going to call it an Ampere you may as well just call it a Volt or a Bolt.


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/9/2018 8:02:59 PM
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If you're going to call it "blitz" why not just go for "blitzkrieg"?


TomMTomM - 6/9/2018 8:38:15 PM
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THere are TWO possibilities with a Porsche EV

1 - THe car will simply be great - at which time the name will be meaningless
2 - THE car will simply not be great - at which time a better name will be meaningless.

Porsche is NOT a mass market car - they do not sell based on the names of the models - and so - it is really meaningless what they call the car.

Still it does make you wonder what nitwit is in charge over there!!!!


carloslassitercarloslassiter - 6/9/2018 8:56:04 PM
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Porsche is NOT a mass market car - they do not sell based on the names of the models - and so - it is really meaningless what they call the car.
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Nonsense. It matters. Give it a shite name and it will turn a lot of people off.


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/9/2018 9:20:54 PM
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@Carlos...a rare moment where we agree.




Agent00RAgent00R - 6/9/2018 10:05:21 PM
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Great call!

Really love the name Blitz but I am sure the PC types would associate it with the 30s and 40s...



carloslassitercarloslassiter - 6/9/2018 10:39:48 PM
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To me Blitz is cheap, unsophisticated and hardly says upscale.

Frankly I liked Mission E.


pcar4evrpcar4evr - 6/10/2018 12:41:22 AM
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An electric luxury car = Porsche Electrolux. Wait, need to differentiate from the vacuum cleaner. Tag line "Porsche Electrolux...it doesn't suck"



supermotosupermoto - 6/11/2018 8:58:09 AM
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Let's go back to models with numbers for names.


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/11/2018 11:53:23 AM
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Indeed. Porsche should be 9XX




zliveszlives - 6/11/2018 2:46:15 PM
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TY-CANT
TACY-ANT
TIE/CN (withthe strarwars wrap)
TAYTAY




carloslassitercarloslassiter - 6/11/2018 7:02:59 PM
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Let's go back to models with numbers for names.
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I predict huuuge success for the Pontiac 1000, Pontiac 2000 and Pontiac 6000


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/11/2018 7:49:05 PM
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The context was Porsche.
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