Auto Eroticism

Oops.

According to a Reuters article, General Motors will be renaming its Buick LaCrosse in Canada "because the name for the car is slang for masturbation in Quebec, embarrassed officials with the US automaker said Thursday." I guess that would be like calling it the Buick Jerkoff in the US. Given the reputation of some General Motors products, that might at least be more honest than slapping a pretentious Francophile name on an American clunker.

Let's see . . . "LaCrosse" is French for "the stick" . . . oh. Now I get it.

I wish GM would just bring back the late, lamented Corvair (in a safer incarnation). That name had a sporty ring to it, had flair.