This is cool. I had no idea.

The name Falcon was originally intended to be the name of the Plymouth Valiant, but Ford Motor Company released a production car with the name first, after Henry Ford II requested use of the name.[1] Chrysler agreed, scrambling to change it at the last minute with a contest among their employees.


Copy and pasted off of wikepedia. If its a lie, they told it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Falcon#cite_note-1