On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:40:48 -0800, Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> wrote:
>Timohy Sipples wrote, re IBM using its own trademark differently in different >contexts: >> >>One famous example among many is >>Honda's CVCC™ (Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion) engine technology. >>The 1972 Honda Civic was the first Civic model to include CVCC technology, >>although Honda also put a CVCC engine in their 1970 N600 model. I assume >>"Honda Civic" is trademarked, at least in certain countries, although I >>can't confirm that immediately. It was never "CiViCC," although >>hypothetically it could have been. > >“Civic” was clearly derived from CVCC... I don't think that it is clear at all. I owned a 1973 Civic and it did not have the CVCC engine. I was a rather serious gearhead in those days and when the CVCC engine was first introduced for the Civic, I took notice. I remember it being about 1975, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic agrees with my recollection. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVCC, the CVCC was first introduced on the 1975 ED1 engine in the Civic. There is mention in that article that "The first engine to be installed with the CVCC approach for testing was the single-cylinder, 300 cc Honda EA engine used in the Honda N600 hatchback in January 1970." but no mention that it was ever put into production. The claim that the name "Civic" derived from "CVCC" strikes me as revisionist history. And the notion that it could have been called CiViCC is just plain silly. companies don't pre-announce new technology in that way. If either of you have evidence that the name Civic" was derived from the name of the engine technology that was then under development, I'd like to see it. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
