Spelling of Road Runner?

[SportWagon]

Originally Posted by Musclecarclub

I consider the Road Runner one of the purest muscle cars ever. Of course, the option laden later year Road Runners were nothing liked the stripped down '68s. But any car with minimal luxury features and an all performance engine (383) is a true muscle car to me.

Does the above excerpt from the roadrunner thread indicate that the correct spelling is, indeed, Road Runner? That goes for both car and cartoon character?

Was the Chrysler sales literature and other documentation in fact consistent, or did they slip up occasionally, too? Of course, for some reason, in the Sony video game Gran Turismo 2, they spelled it M u s c l e c a r.

Sorry, the question was really bothering me, and web searches pointed towards Road Runner, but I never found anything definitive (such as a closeup of the car badges), and found inconsistency, even on the pages that led me here. Web searches which find screenshots from the cartoon suggest that it was, indeed, "The Road Runner Show".

To wit...
http://www.melaman2.com/cartoons/toons-looney.html

You'll probably never hear from me again after this...

[SportWagon]

So I did a little more searching...

at http://usame.chooseyouritem.com/clas...oad.Runner.jpg suggests two words, but is almost ambiguous. And lacks capital letters.

[Wolf]

Two words.

[BleedDodge]

There it is! That's how it looks on the cars!

[SportWagon]

Sorry, I guess the similar picture I found wasn't intended to be linked to and so has disappeared...

There's also the question of the actual bird, scientifically known as Geococcyx californianus, apparently. Examining citations in the OED suggest that its popular name is in the midst of the common English transformation:

road runner -> road-runner -> roadrunner

With the hyphenated form apparently being preferred. (Note that is for the bird, not the car or the cartoon character).

P.P.S. I want to make it clear I wasn't intending to spelling flame anyone, I was just trying to track down the answer and help myself remember it.

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.ed...fornianus.html
uses the single word form. (For the bird...)

In any case it's officially two words for the model-name of the car...
But not anything anyone should beat anyone else over the head about.

Thanks, good-bye, and...

Meep! Meep!

[BleedDodge]

Who cares how it's spelled?

You know what the car does. It runs roads, therefore......

[aerodynamic1]

Hi all, first time poster...I've got a roadrunner /road runner sales brochure at work, I'll see how it's spelled on that.

[PeteRR]

Road Runner looks correct and that's the way I spell it.