In a message dated 11/30/01 1:51:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,
andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz writes:

<< Nope. Nissan makes a vehicle by that name! >>

Knew that. Designed at the same time as the first Figaro. Probably the start
of the Nostalgia Movement in car design. This ultimately lead to the New
Beetle, Audi TT, Porsche Boxter and soon the New Bus (etc. etc.)

<< Maybe I could call it Pteropod (a group of pelagic swimming snails)
 or Heteropod (a faster group of swimming snails that eat fish)?  >>

Pteropod?       Is that what Hawaiian "Ptero Root" comes from ?
Heteropod?      Straight snails?

Well, if you find a new species, you can call it an Andrupod. It's main
source of locomotion will be conceived in Japan. The shell calcified in
Germany. And the will be so fast that needs "Big Red" brake dust to slow down.

BenTropod