Category Archives: Terroir

The Glorious Adventure – Richard Halliburton 

Following the Path of Ulysses searching for adventure and romance through the Mediterranean.

The Last Migration – Vincent Cronin

Nomadic people being “settled” against their will.  Most haunting history lesson.

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.