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Originally Posted by SCUD
Highly doubt it.
FordUS killed off the Taurus name plate only to bring it back due to how much of a silly idea that was.
Nissan are going to relaunch the Pulsar after it's Tiida replacement has been a failure.
However, Toyota replaced the successful Echo badge with the Yaris badge and has not looked back.. so it's an interesting point. Echo probably wasn't as important car clearly as some of these are, nor was it as long standing. Explains why when TMC asked TMCA to change the Corolla badge to the 'Auris' which is what it is known in many other countries TMCA told them to jam it.
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I think people get too overly concerned with names.. Hyundai has changed all its models to “ixxxx”, Ford changed Laser to foucs & neither have never looked back. Tinda has not worked for Nissan because it is a crap car compared to the old Pulsar.. Bottom line, if the car itself is good & what the people want it will sell, the name is meaningless.. Do people honestly think any new large car Ford releases will sell any differently because it has or does not have a badge that says Falcon??