04-03-2007, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by aren040
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Hi,
Interesting, I didn't even know about the ' No Go' angle, but in Mexico, Nova is a slang term for a particular part of the Female Anatomy, and it was this reference which reputedly caused issues with Sales...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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04-03-2007, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by MNBoxster
Hi,
Interesting, I didn't even know about the 'No Go' angle, but in Mexico, Nova is a slang term for a particular part of the Female Anatomy, and it was this reference which reputedly caused issues with Sales...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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Wow, thats pretty amazing, because not only had I heard this same story and thought it WAS true, but the Speed Chanel even had the same silly story in a documentary about this car. Guess they did not do enough research??? 
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04-03-2007, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by MNBoxster
Hi,
Interesting, I didn't even know about the 'No Go' angle, but in Mexico, Nova is a slang term for a particular part of the Female Anatomy, and it was this reference which reputedly caused issues with Sales...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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In that case, I do apologize because I thought that you were referring to the "No Go" angle which everyone makes. I was not aware of the slang would of which you speak.
-aren
Last edited by aren040; 04-03-2007 at 12:26 PM.
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04-03-2007, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by MNBoxster
Hi,
Interesting, I didn't even know about the 'No Go' angle, but in Mexico, Nova is a slang term for a particular part of the Female Anatomy, and it was this reference which reputedly caused issues with Sales...
Jim'99
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That is interesting. If you do a google search on this, there are hundreds of hits on the well-known "No Go" reference that everyone except you seems to know about, but zero hits on this slang meaning. I also ran it through a Spanish Slang lookup web page, and got zero hits with "nova".
Can you tell us more about this slang word, tied to the Chevy Nova not doing well in Latin American countries, that no one seems to know about?
Curious...
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04-03-2007, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by JackG
That is interesting. If you do a google search on this, there are hundreds of hits on the well-known "No Go" reference that everyone except you seems to know about, but zero hits on this slang meaning. I also ran it through a Spanish Slang lookup web page, and got zero hits with "nova".
Can you tell us more about this slang word, tied to the Chevy Nova not doing well in Latin American countries, that no one seems to know about?
Curious...
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Hi,
I'm just relating what a friend of mine in Mexico told me - about the slang and the car. He said there's too much Machismo for guys to buy a Car named P*ssy. While my Spanish is passing, I'm not well versed in the use of it's local slang, but he's born and raised, longtime friend and I don't think he was BSing me...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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04-04-2007, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by MNBoxster
Hi,
I'm just relating what a friend of mine in Mexico told me - about the slang and the car. He said there's too much Machismo for guys to buy a Car named P*ssy. While my Spanish is passing, I'm not well versed in the use of it's local slang, but he's born and raised, longtime friend and I don't think he was BSing me...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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A Mexico-born coworker, fluent in Spanish, says he's never heard of it. Maybe it's a regional thing? Curious. You'd think that, with the nature of the internet, there'd be at least one web page about this, but they're all about "no go", and how the sales actually did quite well. Hmmm... oh well. 
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