What’s In A Name?

Steve Turner
December 23, 2005

rooneyThe following is an excerpt from 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. The commentary was broadcast this past Sunday December 11, 2005.

When I was a kid, we often went on long trips in our car and I used to pass the time by counting the different kinds of cars coming in the other direction. There were always a lot of Oldsmobiles, Plymouths, Durants, Buicks, Studebakers, Fords and Packards.

One full page ad says “Milan Can Kick It Into Another Gear When The Competition Can’t.” Do you know what kind of a car a “Milan” is? I never heard of it. It’s a kind of Mercury apparently. Mercury is some kind of a Ford, of course. They also sell a Mercury Mariner, a Mercury Mountaineer and a Mercury Montego. Who would have decided “Montego” was a good name for a Ford car? Full Story