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