A Fresh Automotive Anagram - HybridAuto UltraCommuter

Otto Puzzell · March 16, 2008, 06:12:38 AM

"Our Tom hurled a yttrium cab"

Otto Puzzell · July 08, 2008, 03:50:24 AM

Otto Puzzell · August 07, 2008, 02:45:02 PM

Pros?

autominded · August 10, 2008, 02:32:37 PM

Well it would be easier knowing how many words we're looking for.

I found some solutions...which still need to be produced....
Toyota Bacterium Drum Hurl.
Mercury A Bad Mirth Lout Out

Otto Puzzell · August 11, 2008, 03:51:12 AM

I don't know - you're getting tantalizingly close without any clues...

Otto Puzzell · March 01, 2009, 09:34:22 AM

Bumpitty

Arunas · July 15, 2009, 01:08:12 PM

How many words should be there?

Octavia · August 27, 2009, 04:12:20 PM

Any clues

??

pnegyesi · August 28, 2009, 01:46:35 AM

Hutu Tummy Road Cabriolet.

Otto Puzzell · August 28, 2009, 02:26:58 AM

guido66 · August 28, 2009, 04:33:57 AM

Something with the word battery in it?

neilshouse · August 28, 2009, 12:31:32 PM

A Hemi Cuda Turbo Lorry Mutt.

Toyota Brutal Humdrum Rice.

Detroit Curly Rum Hamabout.

Surely one of these must be correct!

Otto Puzzell · August 28, 2009, 12:39:01 PM

Again, tantalizingly close. But no cigar.

Octavia · August 28, 2009, 04:28:27 PM

Is this a current vehicle

Otto Puzzell · August 29, 2009, 03:13:22 AM

The Detroit Curly Rum Hamabout? According to my sources, it never made it into production.

Ultra · August 29, 2009, 03:32:03 AM

toyota?

Otto Puzzell · August 29, 2009, 07:10:18 AM

That's not enough letters.

Octavia · August 29, 2009, 07:14:01 AM

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 29, 2009, 07:10:18 AM
That's not enough letters.

??

GTO48 · April 04, 2010, 04:47:04 AM

Bringing this back from the dead... Can you use letters more than once? Or are these one use only?

Otto Puzzell · April 04, 2010, 05:02:14 AM

Each letter appears as many times in the correct answer as it does in the anagram.

GTO48 · April 05, 2010, 04:57:30 AM

Any of these in the solution?

Turbo
Hydramatic
Carburetor

Tom_I · April 05, 2010, 06:35:47 AM

Good grief! I think I've got it (so don't stand too close).

I hope it's OK for a rookie to answer this, but it's been driving me mad ever since it was bumped recently.

It's such an odd selection of letters, three Us, but only one E. Common letters like S and N missing altogether. There are remarkably few mainstream (or otherwise) car manufacturers' names that you can make from it.

So today I tried a different approach, on the basis that it might be the answer to an earlier AutoPuzzle. The first ever, perhaps? No. So then I started to browse the Solved AutoPuzzles section, working backwards from March 16, 2008, when this thread was started, and it didn't take long to find this:

And sure enough, "Our Tom hurled a yttrium cab" rearranges to:

HybridAuto UltraCommuter

Phew, what a relief! Now I can get back to all those other things I was supposed to be doing.

Otto Puzzell · April 07, 2010, 03:37:32 AM

Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!

Paul Jaray · April 07, 2010, 08:15:52 AM

This one was driving me mad!

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A Fresh Automotive Anagram - HybridAuto UltraCommuter