07-23-2019, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Will BRZ
It makes sense. I believe that's why the BMW X5M is called that rather than MX5 like the Miata. Of course their normal cars have the M first (M2,M3,M4,M5), but they switched that up for the SUVs to avoid confusion. I could be way off though lol interesting to see cars have different names around the world.
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Cars have always had different names around the world. It can happen for many reasons with much of them being the names just don't translate well from one language to another for cultural reasons.
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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar, because Racecar.
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