AMC once made a car called the Matador. To Americans, that conjures up the image of a bullfighter—a rather colorful, swashbuckling, romantic figure—but in Spanish, "matador" simply means "killer." The proper term for a bullfighter is "matador de toros" = "killer of bulls."

You might think it would be disastrous to call a car a "killer" but I understand that didn't bother Mexicans, who found it rather appealed to their macho sensibilities.