Author J. Bryan III once wrote, “My Uncle Jonathan’s first car, circa 1910, was an E.M.F. The initials represented the manufacturers, Everitt, Metzger and Flanders of Detroit. But a long series of breakdowns led to their being translated as ‘Every Mechanical Fault'” (or “Every Morning Fixit,” as Nick Georgano states in the 2000 edition of The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile).
Fortunately, no car today could merit such nicknames, right? Wrong.