Puzzle #688 - Solved! Beijing Motor Vehicle V8 (AKA "East Glows")

D-type · January 25, 2008, 08:29:20 AM

The problem with Chinese (mandarin) is that transliteration into the Roman alphabet is a hit and miss process - eg Dong feng/Tung feng. Translation is also hit and miss eg East Wind/Dawn Wind. So similar names in 'English' may be the same in Chinese

Otto Puzzell · January 26, 2008, 02:30:37 AM

The correct compass direction - part of the name - was mentioned in one of the answers above...

Otto Puzzell · January 30, 2008, 05:47:37 AM

The other half of the name is an adjective...

Tifosi · January 31, 2008, 02:49:34 PM

Whoever styled it was a real master...I see echoes of a 1957 Ford, a 1958 Studebaker, a 1956 Chevrolet, and a 1958 Ford...the single headlight version even has some Rambler overtones in the grille...the guy coulda worked for George Barris...

But I'm lost for a name...

Dan

SeaLion · January 31, 2008, 06:28:34 PM

Quote from: KarnUtzThe correct compass direction - part of the name - was mentioned in one of the answers above...
The other half of the name is an adjective...

... East or East ... Something.

Allan L · February 01, 2008, 03:21:18 AM

Mystic East, Red East or similar?

Otto Puzzell · February 01, 2008, 04:44:28 AM

Very close...

Allan L · February 01, 2008, 05:19:26 AM

Go East . . (young man)

Otto Puzzell · February 01, 2008, 05:40:24 AM

Otto Puzzell · February 03, 2008, 08:47:32 AM

Think back to an earlier clue...

Paul Jaray · February 03, 2008, 09:01:11 AM

There is something of "Japanese" related to Feng-Huang\Phoenix\Shangai?

Otto Puzzell · February 03, 2008, 09:10:56 AM

Japanese connection to the name, not the car.

Paul Jaray · February 03, 2008, 09:25:21 AM

I got that, but is "Japanese" the adjective you told before or something like "east" ? And the part mentioned before was again "east" or Feng-Huang\Whattehelll\Phoenix\Shangai?

Otto Puzzell · February 03, 2008, 10:17:31 AM

There is a tie-in with what Japan is often referred to as. With that name in mind, the East takes on a specific characteristic.

Paul Jaray · February 03, 2008, 10:19:51 AM

There's the sun involved? Like Rising sun?

Otto Puzzell · February 03, 2008, 10:21:06 AM

Though the sun is not part of the name of this car, you are on the right track...

Tifosi · February 03, 2008, 11:39:01 PM

Eastern Samurai? Shogun?

Dan

Otto Puzzell · February 04, 2008, 02:03:42 AM

Paul's last guess was closer to correct.

SeaLion · February 04, 2008, 02:36:55 AM

Rising East?

Paul Jaray · February 04, 2008, 06:08:53 AM

...kamikaze...sword...

Ultra · February 04, 2008, 11:38:10 AM

East rising.

East Sun.

Dawn Sun.

Rising Dawn.

I feel like I am doing a poetry excersize. $:-\$

Otto Puzzell · February 04, 2008, 11:59:59 AM

OK, so what happens to the East when the sun rises?

Paul Jaray · February 04, 2008, 12:53:52 PM

Rising Light?
Rising Day?
Rising Deads?
Eastern Light?
Eastern Sunrise?
Eastern Dawn?

Paul Jaray · February 04, 2008, 01:00:51 PM

Eastern Day?
Eastern Rise?
Rising East?
Rising Eastern Sushi?
Eastern Banzai Rising Child?
Eastern Kamikaze Rising Sword?

@re · February 04, 2008, 02:50:46 PM

Waking East?

I must say I have a feeling that Paul really wants this one

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Puzzle #688 - Solved! Beijing Motor Vehicle V8 (AKA "East Glows")