Cadillac OPTIQ AWD (19 kW Charger)

Regular Car Reviews · Regular Car Reviews · 19 Sep 2026

Modern car names are complete nonsense. Once upon a time, car names actually meant something. They were intended to conjure an image in the mind’s eye. Yet names like Mustang, Corvette, Javelin, Riviera, and Stealth have been all but replaced by randomly generated password jumbles like OPTIQ, bZ, EQS, EQE, GV70, EX30, and endless strings of letters and numbers that sound more like a CAPTCHA image test than a car. But there’s actually a reason automakers started doing this, and while traditional wisdom would suggest it’s about global branding, trademarks, product hierarchies, and internal clas…