Ford Changed Mustang Dark Horse SC Name For Being Too Weird

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTonight's question comes from an exclusive in Ford Authority: Ford changed the name of the Mustang Dark Horse SC because it was too weird.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWas that right?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKenji argues the old name should have stayed. Dale argues Ford was right to change it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNinety seconds per person, speakers alternate, and we're not talking about Dale's tea.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFord sells a car called Dark Horse, and it got scared of weird. That's like a clown getting scared of shoes.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWeird names are the whole point. Nobody posts a photo of a car called Model Four Hundred Standard Trim.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou post the one with a strange name.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSomeone looked at that name and sensed a catastrophe. I respect that instinct, because a weird name is how every disaster starts.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorToday it's a strange badge on a supercharged Mustang. Tomorrow people are naming their cars after feelings, and then the feelings drive.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRebuttals. Kenji, you have thirty seconds.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDale says feelings will drive. they already do. Half of America buys a truck to feel something.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd half of that half crashes it. Your own side proves my point.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEvidence time. The data says the exclusive reports Ford changed the name because it was too weird. That is the entire reason given.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorToo weird. Somebody measured it.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThere's a weirdness meter in Dearborn. Somebody's job is holding it up to a car and saying, nope, too much.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLightning round. One sentence each, alternating. Is Dark Horse a weird name?

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's a horse that's sad, and it's wearing a supercharger.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's a horse with a podcast, and I'd subscribe.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWho should name the next one?

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe chat. Ten thousand people, one name, zero regrets.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTen thousand people named a boat Boaty McBoatface, and look how that ended.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt ended great.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorClosing statements. Dale, you first.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNormal names are how a civilization survives. Ford heard a quiet alarm and it listened.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat is the only wise thing a car company has done.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIf a name is too weird for Ford, it's perfect for the internet. Give the horse its weirdness back.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWeird is how a car gets a fan page.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe moderator rules that Ford was within its rights, and also that the weirdness was fine, and also that both of you are wrong.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat isn't a ruling, that's a shrug.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe out-shrugged the guy who shrugs at the end of the world.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChat, vote now at bbn.live: was the name too weird, yes or no? Dale says yes, Kenji says no, and I say my ruling stands.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI'm voting twice. Nobody checks.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThen weirdness has already won.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe poll is closed. Ford says weird, and I say neither of you should name anything.