What Nameplate Has Been Used On The Craziest Variety Of Vehicles? Autopian Asks

Automotive homophones are a fascinating thing. These are vehicles that share a name, even when they might not have anything to do with one another. Sometimes, different vehicles from different brands share the same name, but sometimes, you even get one nameplate from one brand being applied to a crazy variety of different vehicles. What nameplate has been used on the largest variety of vehicles?

Just in case this question sounds a bit convoluted, I’ll expand on what we’re talking about here. Two years ago, Jason wrote about the wildly different vehicles to have been called a Clipper. The list is rather hilarious:

Volkswagen Clipper (Type 2)
Volkswagen Golf Cabrio Clipper
Packard Clipper
Allard Clipper
Nissan Prince Clipper
Trident Clipper
Clipper Steam Automobile

That list is wonderful because each of those vehicles is different. The Volkswagen Clipper is a Type 2 van while the Trident Clipper is nominally a GT car and the Nissan Prince Clipper is a truck. Jason also left out one big Clipper and that’s the Flxible Clipper bus!

Here’s a Nissan Prince Clipper:

Take a gander at the Packard Clipper:

We’re sure that other Clippers are out there, but this means that the name Clipper has been applied to everything from compact convertibles to sizeable buses.

Personally Victimized by [MILK] brought up another example of this on the Autopian Discord. Today, the Ford Maverick is a pickup truck. However, in the 1970s the Maverick nameplate was slapped on a two-door and four-door compact.

But wait, there’s more! The Maverick nameplate is also applied to Chinese and European versions of the Ford Escape as well as two different Ford-badged Nissan SUVs sold in Australia and Europe.

So, the name “Ford Maverick” could have wildly different meanings depending on where you live in the world. Here’s where I turn it to you. What nameplate do you think has been used on the largest variety of vehicles?