it's made up like many other car names:
corolla
integra
etc.

still trying to figure out what a snetra is though...

 

It means "my car"!!

 

lol i love my car

 

Now that I think about it, is it just me or do all god damn Japanese cars end with "a".

Just going off my head and from Nissan Alone
Sentra
Altima
Maxima
Stanza

Corolla, Celica, Acura, Integra, Honda, Elantra, Sonata, Kia (All of their cars end with A), Mazda, Millenia, Miata, Impreza, Cressida, Supra...ITS A GOD DAMN CONSPIRACY I SWEAR!

 

those names are designed so they can be widely marketable, since they don't have any regionality or other specifics associated with them

 

Now that I think about it, is it just me or do all god damn Japanese cars end with "a".

Just going off my head and from Nissan Alone
Sentra
Altima
Maxima
Stanza

Corolla, Celica, Acura, Integra, Honda, Elantra, Sonata, Kia (All of their cars end with A), Mazda, Millenia, Miata, Impreza, Cressida, Supra...ITS A GOD DAMN CONSPIRACY I SWEAR!

Holy ****, never thought of that before.

 

Sidekick, Swift, Esteem, Arieo, Pathfinder, RAV4, Civic, Accord, etc...it'll go on and on.

 

True, true... In some languages words that end with "a" are considered to be of female gender... Marketing trick?

lol, whenever I hear Sentra and Altima all I can think of are a bunch of beer commercial chicks just because of the 'a'.

 

This thread reminds me of something I heard about the Chevy Nova...it had really bad sales in Spanish speaking countries because Nova = No Va = It doesn't go

 

Now that I think about it, is it just me or do all god damn Japanese cars end with "a".

Just going off my head and from Nissan Alone
Sentra
Altima
Maxima
Stanza

Corolla, Celica, Acura, Integra, Honda, Elantra, Sonata, Kia (All of their cars end with A), Mazda, Millenia, Miata, Impreza, Cressida, Supra...ITS A GOD DAMN CONSPIRACY I SWEAR!

From what/if I can remember, Names in Japanese always end in a vowel in spelling and sound. Like my name in Japanese would sound like Patrickoo

 

lol, ...all I can think of are a bunch a beer commercial chicks...

Wha...? You too?

 

Sentra is english name.. hell if they name the cars like their citys.. you guys will be choking while saying it. haha

 

aaaa this topic again if remember correctly there is a thread on this somewhere.......I might be wrong on this, but i dont remember that the sentra was another name for sunny. if i read correctly on that thread a while back, nissan just named the sentra whithout any meaning behind it, just plain "SENTRA" and that the sunny had no correleation except for the engine because its a totally different car., but i might be wrong..........

 

well

most toyota cars are named after a Latin word

ex: Supra
In latin supra means to surpass, stand above, greater

you can find that it is the same in celica, corolla, and a few others

I have no idea about nissan, but i would be hard pressed to not imagine the name has it's roots in latin or another romantic language. Closest i can imagine for sentra would be sentry, which is someone who stood gaurd or kept watch. I doubt it though, it is just a guess, thats what i get for taking latin throughout highschool...
heh

 

Remember when nissan came out with those cool comericals in the late 90's. Ken pickin up barbie in a 300Z and the song was van halen's Girl you really got me now


Well the sentra's song was " I'M A LOSER BABY, SO WHY DONT YOU KILL ME.

That is what sentra means

 

Sentra
Altima
Maxima
Integra

Altima, Aliment
Maxima, Maximum
Integra, Integrity
sentra, CENTURY?

C'Mon guys... its easy

 

oh yeah.... i cant spell

 

Perhaps from the word sentry with some reference to guardian or foot soldier which would fit in with its position in the lineup

 

<----- the smartest one in the world

 

No matter what SENTRA means, and I don't want to get too deep here or go off on a tangent with speculation, it makes me smile...!!!!

see

 

Okay so what about other letters? Okay, lets try E. Corvette, Chevette, Grand Marquis (okay but it sounds like an E), Cherokee and Grand Cherokoee, Eclipse, Ferrari (sounds like E) Tahoe, Protoge. Okay O, hmm....Silverado. Okay about about other car types that don't end in vowles? Suburban, S-10, Escursion, Exporer, Ranger, RSX, NSX, TSX, Pathfinder. Okay so yea most of the Japanese cars that are imported end with A. What about the ones imported from Europe?

 

It means "my car"!!

That would be Toyota Camry=My Car

Sentra=Staren, as in Staren at that ugly *** rear end

Now you guys know what Nissan was thinking

 

Most European cars have sexy names. Ferrari 360 Modena, Lamborghini Murcielago, Bugatti, Skoda...(ok that ones not sexy).

 

Now that I think about it, is it just me or do all god damn Japanese cars end with "a".

...Elantra, Sonata, Kia...

those are korean cars and a korean manufacturer. but yea, they still end in 'a.'

*have you ever heard the best motoring announcers say murcielago? it's pretty amusing.

 

How do you say Mucielago? Mercy-lego?