The Name Chain - CLOSED

[nicanary]

I was just about to post the V8R1 - I reckon that's a winner.

PS the photo had been deleted - I have no idea why it was posted......Please continue from Maserati Ghibli.

[nicanary]

Cegga Maserati

[Djetset]

Chrysler TC by Masearti

[nicanary]

Chrysler Saratoga

PS the reason for my error in failing to delete the Maserati V8R1 photo is possibly because I just deposited a hot cup of coffee over my lap and sofa. I'm thinking of sueing somebody - apparently it works in your favour if it happens in a retail establishment, even if it's your own fault. I shall sue the mug manufacturer, methinks. It hasn't done the silk fabric of my Louis XIV chaise longue much good. Jeez I'm p*ssed off.

[Wendax]

Saratoga Twinax 4WD

[Carnut]

Asia Rocsta 4WD

[nicanary]

Asia Motors Towner

[Carnut]

Local Motors Strati

[Paul Jaray]

Otto, the chain ended with the Porsche FLA.
I asked for your opinion at that point and now we should either end it there or continue it there, imho.
I suggest to proceed with Porsche 911T waiting for you to decide if award the points and stop or award the point and change path...unless anyone finds another link today.

[Djetset]

Otto, the chain ended with the Porsche FLA.
I asked for your opinion at that point and now we should either end it there or continue it there, imho.
I suggest to proceed with Porsche 911T waiting for you to decide if award the points and stop or award the point and change path...unless anyone finds another link today.

. ???! Am I the only one that's confused here, as Nicanary continued the Chain after the Porsche FLA with the Devin Porsche Speedster, and it has continued on from there.  Sorry if I missed something here, but...?

[Paul Jaray]

The Porsche FLA in my reply #700 was the 2nd Porsche in a row. My replies 701 and 703 were just some questions for Otto...

[Djetset]

The Porsche FLA in my reply #700 was the 2nd Porsche in a row. My replies 701 and 703 were just some questions for Otto...

OK, thanks PJ, but the rules were unbroken in this case as Nicanarys's Devin Porsche post was not a third Porsche in a row  ???

[Otto Puzzell]

Or another idea: the puzzler who finds the final car wins 1 point and can post an alternative car to keep it going...in this case, assuming that after Porsche FLA no-one can continue, I will go back to "Porsche 962 Derek Bell Signature Edition" and post, let's say, a Porsche 911T. In this case, each one of us can try to end it, but we can also keep it going.
Just an idea.

I'm sorry I didn't see you had declared the puzzle closed. If all are in agreement, I'll give the points to PJ, and hang it up for good.

[Wendax]

Otto, could you please explain to us, why Paul Jaray should get the points? Maybe I missed a hidden rule or something else?  ???

[Otto Puzzell]

Otto, the chain ended with the Porsche FLA.

Is this correct?

[Djetset]

No, this isn't correct. As I've mentioned previously, the Chain was continued when Nicanary posted the Devin Porsche in response to PJ's Porsche FLA, that car being only the second Porsche in a row, as per the rules. If anyone can declare the puzzle closed, I'm sure any of us could have done this along time ago...

So, assuming the Chain is still growing, I'll submit the W Motors Lykan, in response to the last car posted, the Local Motors Strati.

[Otto Puzzell]

I agree, Djetset. However, PJ seemed adamant in restating his assertion.

Can we get a consensus to keep the puzzle going?

[Wendax]

I'd like to see the puzzle going on, but IMHO there should be a point limit (2 or 5 or...?)

[Otto Puzzell]

I'd like to see the puzzle going on, but IMHO there should be a point limit (2 or 5 or...?)

I don't think it would be right to tell the folks who have been toiling at this for so long that the points they thought they could win are no longer there.

[Djetset]

I agree, Djetset. However, PJ seemed adamant in restating his assertion.

Can we get a consensus to keep the puzzle going?

Thanks Otto. All is would add is that PJ continued with the puzzle after his declared 'winner' #700 Porsche FLA when he posted #710 9ff TRC-85, so he must have thought the Chain was continuing at this stage, otherwise why bother continuing?!

[nicanary]

I have to feel sorry for Otto - this is a puzzle which seems to make up its own rules as it goes along!

I posted the Devin Porsche because there had been a precedent on the thread. IMO the Porsche part of the name is neither make nor model, just the motive power for that car. It's like saying Ssanyong Mercedes-Benz Rodius. The M-B part is superfluous. Since we had already accepted in previous posts that engines were part of a car's title, I used the Devin to get a continuation because we had 2 Porsche cars in succession.

I don't mind what happens next. Points allocation does not matter to me. When all is said and done, it's Otto's puzzle and he can adjudicate as he thinks suitable. I have to admit that the concept of this puzzle has resulted in an AP's version of Rumpelstiltskin's beard.

[Carnut]

i think we need PJ's re-newed opinion here.
Throughout the puzzle it was accepted that after 2 posts of the same marque it was OK to include that marque's name as part of the next post when it was not the main marque (several times after a Ford ****  was posted twice there was then a ****-Ford after which we could continue with another Ford *** twice again and so on; that's why I said there was effectively no end to this puzzle).

I don't see anything different on this occasion: 2 Porsches then a Devin-Porsche.  Hence I don't understand why the puzzle ended at Porsche FLA?

[Paul Jaray]

I am sorry...I have limited time to play and each time it's hard to catch up.
I was obviously wrong, it seems.
I thought 'Porsche' was out as a Maker but many times we accepted engines as part of a car's name...but that was not the point.
The chain was not over because I knew there were other possibilities, both in 'Porsche' than in 'FLA'.

(BTW, there are at least 2 way to keep it going...)

I was waiting for a reply for the suggestion of a limit in the points we can get (and now I know Otto's decision) and in the meantime I suggested a couple of different way to proceed Otto's puzzle.
My Porsche 911T was just an example, waiting for Otto's reply, and when I saw the Devin Porsche I thought we were all keep playing following the 911T, waiting for Otto's decision.
Truth was that the game was not suspended after my posts (as I imagined) but was continuing.
Otto's replies #714 and 715, gave me the idea he missed my posts and that's why I had to post my reply #733:

Otto, the chain ended with the Porsche FLA.
(...) ...unless anyone finds another link today.

because I was still thinking we were all playing and waiting to revert to that FLA.

[Carnut]

Thanks PJ - understood!
So we're at W Motors Lykan now...

[Carnut]

Yummy Motors XCTR