Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos

Beucars said:
Nice! Chevrolet comes from the words Chèvre = Goat and Lait = Milk, interesting fellow, he was born and grew up in Switzerland...
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I knew about the origin of Chevrolet's birth place and how he came to be named as the car brand but did not know it meant Goat's Milk
That is unreal as Maserati stands for Holy Cow so they are related, in a sort of way, cool as
 
Beucars said:
Nice! Chevrolet comes from the words Chèvre = Goat and Lait = Milk, interesting fellow, he was born and grew up in Switzerland...
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redax5 said:
I knew about the origin of Chevrolet's birth place and how he came to be named as the car brand but did not know it meant Goat's Milk
That is unreal as Maserati stands for Holy Cow so they are related, in a sort of way, cool as
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Yeah, I heard that story before, but I am a bit skeptical. Sometimes I think some foreigners mixed up "Maserati" and "Countach".
 
Italian to English
ma = but
serati = evenings

... so Maserati translates into English as "but evenings". But that doesn't make much sense and probably has nothing to do with the actual derivation on the name, unless the Maserati family were not morning people. Maybe they traditionally got up at lunchtime and worked late into the evening.

Countach is supposedly a mild swear word used as an expression of surprise in some Italian dialect, but doesn't have a direct translation into English. It possibly equates to the American expression "holy cow". I call it an Americanism because you'd never hear holy cow as an expression of surprise in Australia. You might hear "holy shit", but more likely something else starting with F.
 
Dellortoman said:
Italian to English
ma = but
serati = evenings

... so Maserati translates into English as "but evenings". But that doesn't make much sense and probably has nothing to do with the actual derivation on the name, unless the Maserati family were not morning people. Maybe they traditionally got up at lunchtime and worked late into the evening.

Countach is supposedly a mild swear word used as an expression of surprise in some Italian dialect, but doesn't have a direct translation into English. It possibly equates to the American expression "holy cow". I call it an Americanism because you'd never hear holy cow as an expression of surprise in Australia. You might hear "holy shit", but more likely something else starting with F.
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My wife regularly calls me a Cuntach :confused:
 
Well-known fact that Ferrucio Lamborghini was a bull-fight fan. Many of his models carry names of bulls, breeds or something else bull-fighting related. No wonder, with a raging bull as company logo.

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