The RD 350 used to be called the Yamdoot because it had the highest acceleration of any indian bike. Caused a lot of deaths. ------Original Message------ From: Srini RamaKrishnan Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] Fwd: Re: Ford Figo (was sociolinguistic query) Sent: Apr 16, 2012 6:18 PM
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > In India, we don't seem to have this kind of "brand resistance". We have > a Japanese brand called "Yamaha" that sells pretty well, thank you, > when Yama is the God of Death. The joke in the 80s was - what would a merger of Yamaha and Rajdoot be called? Yamraj or Yamdoot of course. Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
