The phaeton, an English carriage designed to be faster and all-around more spry (and dangerous) than its contemporaries, has had its name usurped by a giant RV. I saw one of these errors of judgment on I-90 in Massachusetts today and noted its name compared to its morbid obesity and mediocre "RV art" on the side.
(Topic for another post: What is with the misconception that people will like to look at giant beige behemoths with little slashes of purple and teal winging their way ridiculously across the side? Is this really the aesthetic of all RV owners? And shouldn't the rest of us, who don't get to be inside and so have to look at it more often, get some kind of say in this?)
The car-equivalent to this naming snafu would be selling Hummers under the name "Smart Car" or "hang-glider."
Phaeton-carriage drivers must be spinning in their graves.
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