What do you call a group of Corvettes? Collective car nouns, real and imagined

[Brandan]

There are some wonderful collective nouns used to describe groups of various animals. For example, a “murder” of crows or a “tower” of giraffes. They’re not official names, true, but language is adaptable, and if enough people adopt a word, then the term can stick. Plus, new collective nouns can be fun, and I envy those that get to coin new examples.

In that vein, I thought I’d come up with some of my own nouns that describe groups of certain cars. 

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[jwiley]

A collection of Rolls-Royce Phantoms and Ghosts as a haunt

A group of Jeep Wranglers as a corral 

A grid of Porsche Caymans are a bask 

A lot of Chevrolet Bolts is a charge 

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[Brandan]

Good ones! You cold also add Wranglers to the Caballeros in the rodeo.

[RokemRonnie]

Yes, but is the plural of Lotus "Loti"?

[BimmerBrad]

It would be a Stand of Lotus.

[1970EuropaGuy]

How often do you see over 1 Lotus running? You can't have a plural.

[LesIzmeaux]

Notwithstanding the other comment, absolutely.  And more than one Ford Focus are called Foci.   This one is hard to spell but easy to say: a Prius next to a Prius are "Prii?"

[QuicVic]

For several years on various rallies, we non Ferrari drivers have referred to any more than one Ferrari on the road as a 'fiasco of Ferraris'

[Maverick]

I think it should be called a "Wave of Corvettes"....owners are always talking about "Save the Wave".

[goodrotties]

The late auto writer and race car driver, Denise McCluggage, suggested a group of Toyota Prius should be a "smugness of Priuses."

[Okey78]

Based on what I see on the highway it could be a chicane of Priuses.

[A2Maker]

Multiples of Prius automobile would be Prii.
not quite correct Latin, but that's Toyota's definition, so I guess it counts

[Granny]

I must disagree about the Highlanders - it would of course be a "clan."

[TonyT]

A group of anything from Great Britain could be referred to as a "grief." And of course, anything equipped with either Lucas or Bosch electrics could be called a "darkness." I like to observe a gathering of early two-stroke motorcycles as a "smoke." Watching videos of cars leaving car shows only to meet with disaster could qualify as a "crash" of Mustangs. But all of these things have but a single definition: sponges of money.

[jshanna]

Or a "leakage" of MGs/Triumphs...

[Jagman]

Why not a “Pace” of Jaguars? Of course, Grace and Space would also work!

[Templar333SP]

An opera of Ferraris, a junkyard of Yugos, a politburo of Ladas, a gershwader of Porsches

[Chazoo]

What's a "gershwader"?  Google wants to know...

[BigD]

geschwader = squadron; gerschwader = ???

[Jamie]

Many years ago Click and Clack of Car Talk fame held a similar contest and my fav was a “rattling of LeSabres”.

[CaptBobbyB]

I miss those guys

[Bratpane]

Car Talk plays old shows as podcasts released every Saturday.  It's so good.  In the most recent one Tom recommended that a doctor who called in get a Ford Probe after finding out he was a proctologist.  

[Fatcat32]

A group of Toyota Highlanders is a "clan". Duh!

[Mad_Goat_67]

A gathering of the goats- GTO party 

[69goatconv]

We often refer to them as a "Herd of Goats".

[knucklebusted]

A group of Buick Skylarks (and GSs by extension) is called an exultation.

A group of GSXs then would be an GSeXultation?

[Hal]

Because a lot of Corvette people go on Cruises- how about a CRUSADE of Corvettes. 

[BimmerBrad]

A Bevy of Bimmers. 

[Arcticfox44]

Since a corvette is a small warship, "convoy" seems good. You get the alliteration. 

[Ohiorick]

Seems to me it would be a “ convoy.”

[Arcticfox44]

Since a corvette is a small warship, how about "convoy"? You get the alliteration -- a convoy of Corvettes. 

[Ohiorick]

Beat me to it. Seems logical.

[cal333]

I think we should go one more step with Corvettes...a "task force" seems OK too...all of the way from ZR-1 "destroyers" to the C8 "guided missile cruisers" and topping it off with the whopping L88 "battleship"...rare...expensive...conquering and feared by all would be combatants...

[Grace]

oh, i approve of this. #doitforthealliteration

[BillyBuick]

A grouping of Alfa Romeos is "The Family".

[OncDoc]

Naturally the third-generation Buick Riviera’s (1971-1973) would be a “boat” of boat tails!

[HASCpres2019]

Or perhaps a "flotilla" ?

[CadDad]

A Flotilla of boat tails?

[BillyBuick]

A group of Alfa Romeos is "The Family".

[Dowstie]

Grenada’s, Yukons and the like....

Colony

[EmmanuelNY]

flats (6) grouped would be a high-rise.

[Copbait73]

VW Beetles would be an infestation?

[rgmaria]

A web of Spiders 

[MyAlfa]

Should a bunch of Alfa Romeos be "A

Tragedy?"

Or. perhaps "A Montague?"

How about "A Julienne?"

[Willystruck]

A group of military Jeeps is a convoy.

[Bruce_1951]

A gathering of Goats (GTO naturally) is called a tribe.

[CaptBobbyB]

another one I have my reservations about.

[MyAlfa]

Lincolns and Fords "Commanders?"

[Debx2]

Apparition of Sprites

Rumble of Rebels

Assault of Armadas

Expedition of Explorers

Court of Judges

Rattle of A’s

Nuisance of Gremlins

Circle of K cars

[GB1]

A bonfire of Pintos