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What humorous expansions have been made of the names of automobile makes, read as acronyms?

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Problem

What humorous expansions have been made of the names of automobile
makes, read as acronyms?

[ Editor: problem statement reconstructed from the postings; the list
  was forwarded to rec.humor.funny (November 1996) as unattributed,
  "making the rounds". ]
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AUDI
    Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
    Always Unsafe Designs Implemented

BMW
    Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
    Big Money Works
    Bought My Wife
    Break My Window
    Brutal Money Waster

BUICK
    Big Ugly Indestructable Car Killer

CHEVROLET
    Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
    Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time

DODGE
    Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater
    Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere

FIAT
    Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
    Fix It All the Time
    Fix it again, Tony!

FORD
    Flip over read directions
    F***** over rebuilt dodge
    First on Race Day!!!
    backwards -- Driver Returns On Foot
    First On Recall Day
    First On Rust and Deterioration
    Fix Or Repair Daily
    Found On Road, Dead
    Fault Of R&D
    Fast Only Rolling Downhill
    Features O.J. and Ron's DNA

GM
    General Maintenance

GMC
    Garage Man's Companion
    Gotta Mechanic Coming?

HONDA
    Had One Never Did Again

HYUNDAI
    Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive...

MAZDA
    Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along

OLDSMOBILE
    Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late
    Everyday

    Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular
    Leftover Equipment

SAAB
    Send Another Automobile Back
    Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown

TOYOTA
    Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto

VOLVO
    Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object

VW
    Virtually Worthless

-- forwarded by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@fore.com> to rec.humor.funny
   (selected by Jim Griffith)