Inappropriate brand/model names

Note a bike - but the Toyota MR2 in France didn’t really sell as it sounded exactly the same as the Toyota Merde.

never liked the teenage boy humour of some of the bike names of the early 80s either. Wouldn’t stop me owning a Roberts DB though!
 
So interestingly there are multiple pathways to inappropriateness:

Deceitful marketing (the Townsend)
Lost in translation (titanal)
Deliberately unpleasant (gt aggressor)
Deliberately rude (dogs bolx)
Yes I wasn’t sure if it was just bikes / brands they were named wrongly but looks like many interpretations are acceptable so I’ll add the ‘Professional - Black Russian’ Not Professional, not Russian but it was black at least. It would give that Townsend a good run for its money.
 
Picon, the range of parts from Corratec

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in France we immediately think of

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