A Hummer is a man's car. It is supposed to be ugly. Essentially it is testosterone with 4 wheel drive, or 2 wheel drive pretending to be 4WD.
If a lawyer drives a BMW, it suggests that Mrs lawyer's opinions are sort of respected, at least.
A divorced divorce lawyer probably could enhance his image with a Hummer.
Hummer: the name says it all. Is a type of sex, but isn't really sex, and is easily purchased with minimal obligations to society.
Other fave car names of this sort: Cutlass Cut L Ass. If you try to sell it to a woman, she can see the words 'cute ass'.
Toronado, Torino, Taurus seem to suggest Adult male bovines.
Why would Jeep have a model called the 'Limited'? Are not Jeeps supposed to be unlimited in their travel?
Chrysler took the Neon, the chick';s car par excellence and redid it as the Caliber, which is clearly NOT a chick car style or name. The name suggests LARGE caliber, which sounds good for the guys, who value size but a large caliber woman is not an appealing concept to either sex, I suggest.
What was Chrysler thinking when they named a Dodge the Dynasty (Die Nasty)? Or Cadillac when they stuck the letters ETC on the back of their former Eldorado? (Eldorado Touring Coupe=ETC, supposedly). But etc just does not have any distinguished cache. Perhaps more than Ibid, or OpCit.
Finally Cadillac has realized that the age of their best customers was deceased, and they have been trolling for the BMW crowd with luxury performance. It seems most hearses, formerly Cadillacs, are now Lincolns. I imagine that this has something to do with the change of image.
I would say that KIA has done quite well with a name that is the abbreviation for Killed in Action.
Hyundai means "modern" in Korean, but suggests Hound Dawg, (faithful, perhaps uncostly) in English.
Take the favorite American car's name CHEVY and substiture the middle three letters for something that suggests America (AMR and what do you get? CAMRY. A bit of genius, I think.