GM Drops Risque-Named Buick Car in Quebec

[Jon Callas]

[Editor's note: I think they should call it the Buick Beaver -- which 
does *not* have the connotation in Canada that it does in the US, and 
Canadians often bristle when Yanks snigger. -- jdcc]

From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Oct 23, 2003  8:15:04  PM US/Pacific
Subject: GM Drops Risque-Named Buick Car in Quebec
      GM Drops Risque-Named Buick Car in Quebec
      - Oct 23, 2003 04:53 PM (AP Online)
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's all in the name. General Motors Corp. has
scrapped plans to replace the Buick Regal with the Buick LaCrosse in
Canada because in the French-speaking province of Quebec "lacrosse"
means to masturbate. Among other things.
...

      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=36214782