Modern myths

Let’s Get One Thing Straight About the Chevrolet Nova

The name has never meant “no go.”

Print advertisement for the 1978 Chevy Nova. Source: Nova Research Project

It happened again yesterday: A person I follow on Bluesky — a smart writer whose comments I usually trust— marveled at the sheer boneheadness of General Motors to have sold an automobile called the Chevrolet Nova in Mexico and South America. Because, don’t you see, nova…