Submit a name for Tsikot PhUV!

**drey** · May 17th, 2007 12:50 PM

Hey Guys,

Ano name na gusto nyo? hehehe

**architect** · May 17th, 2007 01:17 PM

For the project study, I have used the codename Laguna. Laguna being where the foreign car companies are based. We strike at the heart.

For the PhUV - Pioneer. For the 3 wheeler - Pilot

Both terms connote being the first, the leader. Pilot is also appropriate for the three wheeler as it is a commuter car (sort of like a pilot in the cockpit.)

While Pioneer and Pilot are English, at least they are readily understood by the rest of the world. Laguna, on the other hand, reminds people of Laguna Seca, implying speed.

**drey** · May 17th, 2007 01:30 PM

I dunno. Pilot would contradict to Honda's Pilot SUV. Pwede kaya Trio?... Pero masarap ang Pilot sa tenga... Hindi nakakasawa. hehehe...

I was also thinking the word I learned from our chat last night sir. Tsikot FRUITION. hehehe...

**architect** · May 17th, 2007 01:58 PM

Hi Drey,

You are right. I forgot about the Honda Pilot. Has Honda officially launched it locally? Last I heard they don't have plans but you can allegedly order it on special basis.

**drey** · May 17th, 2007 02:03 PM

* Jeff. yes sir, they have released the Pilot locally. Di ko lang alam if discontinued kasi wala ako nakikita na tumatakbo.

**architect** · May 17th, 2007 05:46 PM

I actually saw one before along Shaw Boulevard. It was rather huge and from what I heard priced at a premiium.

Well, hopefully they stopped selling it so that we might be able to use the name.

**mazdamazda** · May 17th, 2007 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by architect

For the project study, I have used the codename Laguna. Laguna being where the foreign car companies are based. We strike at the heart.

IMO - the comment "to strike at the heart" of established companies is a bit overboard already. Let's not try to brag about something that is still on paper.

BTW, the name Laguna is taken already by Renault.

Originally Posted by architect

Well, hopefully they stopped selling it so that we might be able to use the name.

The Pilot is currently being sold by Honda as their top of the line vehicle here in the Philippines.

Even if they stopped selling it, they already have a trademark for it.

Originally Posted by architect

For the PhUV - Pioneer.

The name Pioneer is mostly associated with one of the biggest suppliers of in-car entertainment & household electronics. I would refrain from using that name simply because of that association.

**///MPower** · May 17th, 2007 07:30 PM

Call it the jeepney.

**drey** · May 17th, 2007 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by ///MPower

Call it the jeepney.

pwede rin... but I dont think its close to the Jeepney since the name is derived from "jitney", or "jeep" and "knee", the latter referring to the jeepney's crowded face-to-face seating.

Besides, the Jeepney name is too old and it carried a lot of bad reputation since the pollution and traffic crisis came to exist.

**///MPower** · May 17th, 2007 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by drey

pwede rin... but I dont think its close to the Jeepney since the name is derived from "jitney", or "jeep" and "knee", the latter referring to the jeepney's crowded face-to-face seating.

Besides, the Jeepney name is too old and it carried a lot of bad reputation since the pollution and traffic crisis came to exist.

Jeepney 2.0?