These Are Your Favorite Alliterative Car Names

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Thanks to a few "well actuallys" that popped into my QOTD comments this week, I thought we'd begin with a quick lesson on alliteration. Alliteration is, according to the Poetry Foundation: "the repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Alliteration need not reuse all initial consonants; 'pizza' and 'place' alliterate." And if anyone knows how to use alliteration, it's poetry writers who really love to play with words, sounds, rhythms and dictation to a beautiful (and sometimes almost insufferable) degree.

Now that that I've absolutely bored you and we have that all established, we can move onto the alliterative automobile aliases. See what I did there?

Anyway, we've talked about car names a lot on Jalopnik, but never have we posited a question regarding your favorite alliterative car names. I was aptly reminded that obviously Chevrolet and Ford were not the only purveyors utilizing this approach to naming cars. Other brands rightfully outed for such practices included Mercury, Dodge, Chrysler and even sometimes Bentley. It doesn't mean that these brands used alliteration in their naming conventions exclusively, but there were more than one or two car names that fit the criteria.

With that in mind, here's a fun selection of your favorite alliterative car names. 

Saab Sonett

Definitely on my bucket list to see a Saab Sonett in person one day.

AND

Saab Sonett!

From Mondestine and Leo

Dodge Dart

Dodge Dart rolls off the tongue pretty well.

From NEB376

Bentley Blower

How about the Morris Mini, Alpine a110 and my favorite, the Bentley Blower.

From RR

ZAZ Zaporozhets

ZAZ Zaporozhets

From Giantsgiants

Volkswagen Vanagon

Volkswagen Vanagon!

From HakosukaDreaming

Chrysler Cordoba

The Chrysler Cordoba, for its rrrrrrrich Corrrrrrinthian leatherrrrrrr...

From Michael Smith

Oldsmobile Omega (and others)

Saturn Sky

Ford Falcon

Oldsmobile Omega

Cadillac Calais

Bentley Brooklands

From Evildad

Skoda Superb

Skoda Superb.

Look on it and weep! Damn this a good car, only twice in my life have I bought a presser, I just ordered one. My first new car ever!

From Nic P

Pontiac Parisienne

Pontiac Parisienne

From NEB376

Honorable mentions

Even though, I believe, it wasn't the official name, I'm going to go with Tucker Torpedo.

AND 

I'm abusing the purity of the alliteration, but the Ferrari LaFerrari.

From DiRF and Funkatron

I'm gonna allow the Tucker, because the Tucker is a true, weird Jalop car and deserves it. As for the Ferrari La Ferrari, it certainly crossed my mind too. 

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