You're perfectly right, except that for me it wasn't in a book but in an old copy of Popular Mechanics.
I am not sure if the name is the true one or if it's been translated by the magazine. An English name on a french car of this period feels odd... Even with the allies still around in the Nato bases, even flooded by Coca-Cola bottles, Hershey's chocolade and Lucky Strikes packages, the french people weren't that good at foreign languages.
