[masklinn]

Meh. The I is the segment, the is the generation, then the actual part with the generation.

Nobody is surprised that a 3-series can refer to different cars, and the exact model (E46, G20) is not mentioned in marketing.

> It doesn't help that there's also a random mix of river codenames and I can never keep straight which number they belong to.

I’ve never known codenames to do that. Plus they don’t necessarily match generations.