Nevera means "storm" or alternatively "squall" in Croatian, which is where the car got its name.
Source: My Dalmatian father
Fun fact: Jugo (another frequent wind on Adriatic coast) is even stronger wind, but what makes bora/bura special are strong sudden gusts.
I saw it jack-knife a semi truck on my way back from Dalamatia to Istria, all my Life I ave seen the aftermath of the Santa Ana winds in SoCal but I've never seen it happen in person, but I was stalking that truck for at least 15 mins keeping my distance as the the carriage swayed hard left an right as the Bura got stronger as we got higher in elevation.
Eventually the hitch thing that attaches to the front part of the truck snapped and sent it flying into the air and then sliding down the road, it blocked the entire 3 lane road. I checked to make sure the guy was fine and then left when the police showed up.
Ironically, I had a Bura beer [0] with my food at a cafe as I was waiting for the rain to stop. I got hme to Istria pretty late, and all my patio furniture was tossed up, The Bura is no joke, but it has a cleansing effect; everything felt lighter after that storm.
I can guess that was under Velebit, where bura is often very strong and at those times the road is closed for motorcycles, campers, double-deckers and vehicles with trailers.
But people regularly ignore those restrictions because they are not aware of the danger.
Possibly, I couldn't tell you where exactly it was to be honest.
I'm not stranger to driving in 100MPH winds (Santa Ana), and I even did my Motorcycle endorsement in 70mph winds (I dropped their bike coming to a stop due to a freak side gust) but my little under-powered Golf was being tossed around by the Bura so bad that I was just waiting for the thing to jack knife as there were no exits for like +30km.
I took the toll road the rest of the way back to Istria as it wasn't worth it in the end.
There already exists Volkswagen Bora, which was a sedan version of Golf 4. (Basically, a renamed Jetta; just like Vento in the generation before)
oh well
That would be neverin.
Nevera is a storm/thunderstorm in the Adriatic in general, not necessarily a short lasting one.
Yep, it's of Romance origin, etymological dictionaries list it as originating in Venetian nevèra, with an understandable semantic shift.
I was commenting on the "short lasting" part (and the nuances between neverin vs nevera, first one being for "short lasting" storms/thunderstorms, the latter being more generic).
>The root of the word seems to be disbelief ne + vjera
The word is completely unrelated to disbelief, it's of Venetian origin (< nevèra, meaning snow blizzard).
And confirmed by Miro Zrncevic when he and Nevera appeared on Jay Leno's Garage.
He spent about a minute explaining the term in detail and you nailed it.
I'm always frustrated (and I'm not even a native Croatian speaker) that automotive journalists often pronounce the company name "Reemack".
(*) dialects on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialects_of_Serbo-Croatian#Div...
One of the provided examples has variations of the word "vjera" meaning faith in each dialect, ne-vjera is basically non-faith.
> faith věra vera vira vjera