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Posted on March 25, 2021 by Roger Harmston Posted in Terroir

Ghibli and Scirocco are desert winds in Libya.


Zephyr is a light wind.


Zonda  is named after a foehn wind, while the Huayra is named after the so-called Incan “god of the winds”


Maserati Bora is a katabatic (downhill) wind most strongly felt on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea. And the manufacturer also had the Mistral – named aftr a French giant Venturi tunnel.

The VW Golf is badged in honour of the Gulf stream, and one of many VWs named after the wind – like Jetta (Jet stream), Scirocco (after a strong Saharan desert wind) and the Passat, which is a contraction of ‘passatwinde’, the German word for tradewind, that powered merchant sailing ships across the high seas.


The Holden Hurricane is a stormy, gale-force wind.


Tornado Typhoon and the Renaul Wind are self evident.


Chinook – the warm dry westerly in the Rockies – no cars have yet been named for it.


Lambourghini had the Diablo – a hot dry offshore wind from the Northeast in the San Francisco Bay.


A short lived Maserati model was called the Karif – A wind that blows south westerly across the Gulf of Aden near Somalia.


Austin Morris built the Maestro – a cool summertime wind in the Adriatic.


The Maserati Shamal got it’s name from a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states.


A Spanish car company got its name – Tramontana – from  a cold northwesterly from the Pyrenees or northeasterly from the Alps to the Mediterranean and similar to a Mistral.

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