Giancarlo Livraghi [16 April 2012 15:17]: > The Ford Figo story is quite intriguing. Apparently the name was chosen > because "Figo means 'cool' in Italian". Nobody in Detroit or Chennai appears > to be aware of the anatomical-sexual implications (though maybe someone is in > Brazil, where this model is conservatively called Fiesta).
This thread seems to say figo - the masculine - is cool while the feminine, figa is vagina, and by extension, hot, sexy etc? http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=13790