Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Voltswagen of America

media.vw.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

161–170 of 632 posts

Re: Voltswagen of America

#161

Post by earthboundkid »

sillyquiet wrote: post #72
minxomat wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they grew tired of Americans pronouncing it wrong (most V are still pronounced as F, Vettel, Volkswagen etc.) ;-) Edit: This German apologizes for an attempt at a humorous / sarcastic comment and will revert to work-machine state at once. Beep boop.

Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.

The worst part of English orthography is adopting the writing conventions of literally every other language in the world and then expecting people to pronounce the words "correctly." If you want English speakers to pronounce something a certain way, it should be written use our spelling system. There's no point in shaming people for not knowing literally every language. But that's basically the system we have now.

Re: Voltswagen of America

#163

Post by webmaven »

devoutsalsa wrote: post #74
philk10 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shocking, but they have to stay current and have no capacity to resist

Maybe they'll start making trains. Then they can have a conductor between two points.

That seems like it would generate publicity, all right.

Re: Voltswagen of America

#164

Post by formerly_proven »

Laarlf wrote: post #149
jandrese wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To do that all they have to do is advertise the Euro WLT ratings.

NEFZ was unrealistic so we better introduce WLTP, which is even more unrealistic. Cool.

According to Wikipedia ratings under WLTP are much lower than under NEDC so your comment doesn't seem to make a ton of sense to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Harmonised_Light_Veh...

Re: Voltswagen of America

#166

Post by webmaven »

dev_tty01 wrote: post #160
interestica wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder how much internal resistance there was to this shocking name change. "Ohm-y!" And who was charged with leading this change?

The current marketing team has a great capacity for inductive thinking.

Don't sell them short.

Re: Voltswagen of America

#167

Post by Jailbird »

formerly_proven wrote: post #126
minxomat wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they grew tired of Americans pronouncing it wrong (most V are still pronounced as F, Vettel, Volkswagen etc.) ;-) Edit: This German apologizes for an attempt at a humorous / sarcastic comment and will revert to work-machine state at once. Beep boop.

Folxvagen

Folxvahggen?

Re: Voltswagen of America

#168

Post by dpkonofa »

beckingz wrote: post #144
zwieback wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"V" can be randomly soft or hard, "Volk" is pronounced like "Folk" but "Volt" like "Wolt". THere's no real equivalent sound in English, I think. But, yeah, I've owned several VWs and electrical wiring is usually faulty so I'll go with Faultswagen as well.

woltswagon? Is that the correction pronunciation now?

No. Since this is for the US division, the pronunciation would be "Voltswagen".

Re: Voltswagen of America

#170

Post by airstrike »

treis wrote: post #75
TLightful wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Entirely appropriate for the new direction. I dig it ... (speaking as someone who still sees their average cars as steam engine, emission test defeaters)

>I dig it At least there's two of us amongst the sea of ridiculue.

Make that 3. I'm not going to go out and buy their car, but I don't see how this is ridiculous in any way. 50 years from now, people may look back and think "yes, that was the moment that really marked their switch to EVs"
Post reply on HN