So we have car companies who can trace their names to Alessandro Volta and Nikola Tesla. Up for grabs: André-Marie Ampère? Faraday? Edison?
Faraday and Edison is already taken. See: Faraday Futures, Edison Motors
Voltswagen of America
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#102So we have car companies who can trace their names to Alessandro Volta and Nikola Tesla. Up for grabs: André-Marie Ampère? Faraday? Edison?
Maxwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_automobile
Interesting:
> Maxwell was one of the first car companies to market specifically to women.
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#103This is funny, yet ridiculous :-)) Their brand is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it. I imagine it's going to be the only place they'll do it.
Their brand isn’t tainted in the US at all. You’ll see the Atlas everywhere - 160,000 sold in the last 2 years. That’s about half of Ford Explorer sales and about the same as Chevy Tahoe.
It's not tainted in Europe either. Sales are healthy and you see cars from the full range (Skoda, Seat, VW, Audi) aplenty. The overlap between car buyers and outrage bubble subscribers might be limited.
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#104For decades, people have been doing DIY EV conversions based on the VW Beetle, and the colloquial term for them has been "Voltswagens". It's surreal to see it embraced by a company that, just a few years ago, was pushing diesel to the point of a planet-scale fraud. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then... you win?
I'm no fan of the fraud but I'm happy to see the agility / change.
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#105I first thought that it was a pretty poor decision considering the brand value of Volkswagen, but then I remembered that I've used the phrase "Volkswagen engineering" at work to refer to a suggestion that we optimise our application to work better in customer benchmarks.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
How isn't their brand tarnished around the world? Besides the emissions scandal, their vehicles are just expensive and difficult to maintain. I've got a diesel VW Jetta. It has been nothing but a money pit. I'm in the US for reference.
Here in the UKs, VWs are considered reliable and among the easiest to find parts for
A running joke in the Balkans is that you can find parts for older Golfs in the nearest ditch.
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#107This is funny, yet ridiculous :-)) Their brand is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it. I imagine it's going to be the only place they'll do it.
It's also going to look really silly in 20 years when every auto manufacturer is doing electric vehicles. It'll be like Ford boasting that they run on unleaded gasoline.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
How isn't their brand tarnished around the world? Besides the emissions scandal, their vehicles are just expensive and difficult to maintain. I've got a diesel VW Jetta. It has been nothing but a money pit. I'm in the US for reference.
Name a German brand that isn't expensive and difficult to maintain. German car manufacturers have the strongest marketing departments in the world and people will swear blind that their vehicle is reliable and costs nothing to maintain. It's incredibly difficult to get car owners to be honest about how much it really costs them and how reliable their vehicle really is. Another problem is people don't know any better.…
you also have to ask "reliable compared to what?". my first car was a golf tdi. the only maintenance cost was the annual service. it never got close to 100k miles though because vw had to buy it back from me in the dieselgate settlement. statistically, I'm sure a toyota corolla is a much more reliable car, and I would have replaced it with one if that's all I cared about. but I've driven a few of those, and golfs are much more pleasant to spend time in, both behind the wheel and in the passenger seat.
there's an inherent tradeoff between performance, reliability, comfort, and price. once people find their preferred set of tradeoffs, they inevitably start making comments on the internet about how they don't understand why everyone doesn't buy their favorite brand.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.
Pronunciation doesn't go like that but that is a big discussion for its own thread Funny remark though while watching the F1 Netflix show, Schumacher said his name like SchumaKer , hence the Engish Pronunciation which goes to show that he adapted to the audience.
This is an issue I face from time to time when I'm (native German) in international calls and am talking about a German colleague ... I could pronounce properly German (while it's not too easy always for my mind to switch) or adapt to the way most others do (which often is English with an attempt to Germanize)
Luckily due to video conferencing software printing my name on my image, I don't have to do that for my name, as I had to do in phone conference times.
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#110Hmm did they release their April 1 joke too early by mistake?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22357166/volkswagen-name-... > The proximity of the name change to April Fool’s Day initially raised suspicions that it was just a joke. But VW insists that it’s a real thing, so here we are.
Until companies insistence that this the real thing becomes itself part of the joke.