Car manufacturers usually make up a stupid name for their newest products...and that usually works better than using existing words that are poorly researched.
Kia's new concept car, the Provo, is rankling British lawmakers, who are asking the South Korean car makers to change the name. "Provo" was the street name for the dominant branch of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Y'know, the Provisional IRA that killed nearly 1,800 people during a 27 year campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the UK that ended in 1997.
Kia insist their experimental prototype was named to suggest "provocative," and would not market any future car as a Provo in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Cars also not getting released in certain parts of the world are Ford's Slavemaster mini-van in the US, the Peugeot Colonist SUV in Africa and southeast Asia and the Mercedes Kristallnacht coupe, well, everywhere.
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