Lord_Excalibur

Excuse my ignorace, but the other day my young daughter asked why my car was called a SCOOBY and I could not tell her so please help me out so I can tell her.

Thanks Anthony

j888ymc

a few years back when subaru first wowed the ralling sence not many people can pronance s-u-b-a-r-u so instead they called it scooby as its ment to sound similer,
well somethink like that

Scooby555 2

Could it be that "Scooby Doo" rhymes with Subaru ????

Knight Rider

Subaru pronounce rymes with Scooby Doo.

Which has been shortened to Scooby.........

skiddus_markus

Because it's a dog to drive.

ShAnNo_RB5

This is a wind up right? Where's Jeremy Beadle and the rest of the You've Been Framed crew???

CrisPDuk

AFAIK the original reference to 'Scooby Doo Farmers Cars' was made by John Goodman to Richard Dreyfus in Always, a monumentally sentimental girlie flick from the mid-late eighties

MGJohn

Thanks for that Jason .... that site shows:

>> So finally in Japan SUBARU is pronounced : " S'BAL " <<

So .... It's not a Subaru after all. What you are actually driving is a S'Bal ...... so there ! ...

I used to correspond with a Japanese Language professor with whom I shared a common interest. IIRC, before he retired, he used to broadcast (in english) on the Japanese equivalent of our World Service. Again, if IRCC, he told me that the name Honda ... "HonDA" means something like "No 1 Rice Paddy" ..... also; Toyo..TA!

And what about Ferrari ??? Isn't that Italian for Smith. Ferrous ... figures? So, who wants to drive a common or garden Smith ...

So, why does something called a "PeoplesCar" over there (VW), sell like hot cakes over here?

Anyone with more accurate interpretations of any of the above please advise ....

Funny old game people and cars ....

I think the name Subaru they way we say it has a much nicer ring to it .... the other sounds like a load of Sbals .....