I vaguely recall having seen this a while back. If so, I clearly blotted it from my memory.
I know that car companies feel compelled to come up with names-that-are-not-names. In other words, we can’t call something a Thunderbird any more, or a Mustang, or a Cougar, or some other evocative image. Don’t ask me why. I guess the good animals and forces of nature are all taken up.
We certainly can’t name vehicles after people or tribes. Heavens.
So unless a car company wants to go the European route and call their latest sedan the M23i/lcd or something like that, they have to make up names.
Mazda, if you’re going to make up a name, make up a name. Don’t use a word that’s almost a real word, just close enough to confuse the hell out of everyone.
I had hoped that most folks learned how to spell “Millennium” a year or two back when we had one. Perhaps I cheated, since it follows the same pattern as my home town, “Centennial,” in terms of having two N’s, which is the tricky part.
Mazda, of course, drops an N.
They also end it with an A, which makes it sound cool, foreign, classy. It also turns the word “Millennium” into “Millennia,” which is plural.
But it’s just a made-up word, right?
Imagine if they named a car the “Texen.” Or the “Ameraca.” Or the “Expleror.”
Dumb.