Has your spouse or significant other told you that you can make a connection between cars and anything, no matter how random or obscure it is? My wife has told me that more than once. I can’t help it because my head is so full of car trivia that sometimes it just flies out of my mouth when I have even the slightest opportunity to share it.
That’s why I’ve started a new weekly series called Car Connections here on The ClassicCars.com Journal. Every Saturday, I’ll have the Random Word Generator spit out 3-5 words, then I’ll link them to cars in some way—without using Google. I’ll just rely on the minutiae rattling around inside my brain. If the word is overtly car-related, I’ll take it out of the running and use a different one. Some of the connections will be simple and quick; others will be more labored and convoluted (but probably more fun to make and—I hope—follow).
For this first installment in the series, I’m going with three words: brown, revolution, and number. Let’s see what I can do with them.
Brown: UPS delivery truck. Done. (Or Aston Martin‘s former owner Sir David Brown, whose name led to the “DB” model name prefix still used today.)
Revolution: At first glance, I interpreted this in the sense of a cultural movement, not revs. A tachometer is too easy, so let’s try a different route: styling. The Porsche 911 has always had an evolutionary design because each generation has the same basic layout and an overall family resemblance. The Hyundai Santa Fe, however, went through a design revolution. Launched in the 2024 model year, the fifth-generation SUV tossed out its predecessor’s curves for a blockish design that brings the Land Rover Defender to mind.
Number: Several years ago, I read something about the McLaren F1 in which the writer said that everything associated with the BMW 12-powered ’90s icon was “telephone numbers.” That means if any repair needs to be done, the price for it will have a lot of numbers in it.
How would you associate these words with cars? Tell us in the Comments section below. And be sure to share your ideas for random words to use in a future installment of Car Connections.
