The Rolls-Royce Silver Mist and Mitsubishi Pajero had to change names in certain countries

The Rolls-Royce Silver Mist and Mitsubishi Pajero had to change names in certain countries

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Okay, this week's theme, that fact today is things that
had to change their names. Okay, it's a new theme.
It's a new theme, and today we're dealing with cars
that had to change their names.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh okay, I'm going to.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Start with the Rolls Royce Silver missed the Rolls Royce,
of course, the finest and British engineering.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't think I've ever been in a Rolls I've
never been. Was it was it that a Rolls Royce
downstairs at big ugly purple? Oh my god? It was
hideous because.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Have those big nose or the big grill across the fire.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
If it's like silver or black, you like, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
But this one was like the garish grimace purple and
the Libi.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Look if it was grimmers driving it. Apologies, because that
would make so much.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
That would make so much if you and Barney the
Dinosaur were commuting to work in a big purple Rolls Royce.
You've both been around for ages, you've earnt your money.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
And Tinky Winky he's allowed to be in the back.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
One more purple character, the Purple Wiggle Purple of course, the.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Original People four.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
He better not be in the front because you'll be asleep.
And if you're a sleeping passenger, you go in the back. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
If you're a passenger at the front, you've got to
stay awake talk to the driver. Oh you have to,
that's your role. Otherwise get in the back. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
So I'm imagining Grimace is driving. He's kind of the
alpha of the situation.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah. Then Tinky Winky is in the back with Jeff
and Barney's up front in charge of the tunes that
Barney would have I reckon.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'll say it, Barnie would have a fire playlist.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
It would be a mixture of like middle Springsteen, hip hop.
It would be a good mix.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
And then he plays Erica Bardo's Tyrone, the live version.
That's it sets the road trip off er carry Anyway,
The Rolls Royce Silver Myst was not the big purple
garish months that we saw park downstairs at work, but
it also wasn't called the Rolls Royce Silver Myst for long.
It became the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow as the main

(02:16):
export market for Rolls Royce outside of the UK was Germany,
and Myst translates to ship in Germany.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
So it was the Rolls Royce Silver Shist. Yeah, that's
it's a fancy looking car. So they had to change
that to silver Shadow. That wasn't ye Now this one
the next one that had to change its name. This
was a classic growing up in the nineteen nineties. Every
family that total horse flowed or had a boat or
just had too many children.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Not too many.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
It was the Mitsubishi pal Wanker Spanish, so thet marketed
the Pahero as the Montero in North America, Spain, and
Latin Emera except for Brazil because they speak Portuguese, yes
they do, and Jamaica. It was also known as the

(03:06):
Phero in uh in Jamaica and in the UK it
was called the Showgun okay, but they just kept it
in New Zealand. No Spanish speakers. Yeah, they were like
Flitch does. Yeah, I've done jeweling the jewel lingo.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Flich speaks. Not up to car models yet, right, but there,
I'll get there.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
That's next month. Could you call it someone a pah?
Is that the critic Greek pronunciation? Don't then when you
say lovely delicious Gilipino, but the mis paherro ah the
Montero North America. Then it never really took off after
the name changed, so they canned it and there hasn't

(03:47):
been one in North America since, so they just is.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Not doing it anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Also a tossa in Spanish tosa. Yeah, you're tossing your salad.
It's the same W word, isn't it. So tomorrow we're
looking at places that had to change their name. No
Bombay No, I was thinking that just Saigon Sigon thy

(04:15):
No Bohemia Siam became Thailand. No. But it's not like
they changed it because of a change that they changed.
They wanted to change it. There's a small Canadian town
named after a hate symbol. I'll say that much, and
or they changed their name. Will find out tomorrow on
Fact of the day. But today's fact of the day
is the Rolls Royce, silver Mist and the mits of

(04:35):
Bishop Piherl had to change their names in certain countries
because of how it translated.