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Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by toast0 »

yunohn wrote: post #61
captainmuon wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend in Germany said he trusts VW even more after the scandal, because it showed their engineering cleverness. And also because they cared for their customers and gave them even better performance than the government allowed. In general, VW has a good, somewhat inflated reputation in Germany + parts of EU. In my experience, the cars are quite solid and reliable, albeit considered a bit boring. But you can also bu…

>> better performance than the government allowed My understanding was that this performance came at the expense of more pollution, which is what the gov is regulating?

Different pollution, not necessarily more. Tuning the engine for more fuel efficiency generates more nitrogen oxides (above the legal limit in this case) and less carbon dioxide.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by selimthegrim »

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

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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

Watch out Subaru.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by kevinherron »

clajiness wrote: post #219
kbos87 wrote: post #179

I previously owned a VW, but swore on my life that I'd never buy another one after the emissions cheating scandal. There are plenty of reasons why a VW likely wont be my next choice, but I'm softening my stance a bit. What they did was absolutely reprehensible, but I later learned that the more accurate story is that they bore the brunt of media attention for something that nearly every auto manufacturer was later fo…

Exactly. Most other manufacturers were/are cheating as well. I've owned a few recent VWs and have found they're fine vehicles. The current gen Tiguan was underpowered, but my MK7 GTI and MK7.5 Golf R are amazing cars. I have a feeling I'll be driving the R for a long time.

I had a MK6 GTI and I loved it. Once VW has worked the kinks out of their electric platform I'll definitely take a look at them again.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by theodric »

Aldipower wrote: post #87
sillyquiet wrote: post #72

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

Ei sink ju wud bi surpreist if Ei wud tok to ju leik sis. (I think you would be surprised, if I would talk to you like this.) German pronounced English. :)

That's an excellent representation of a Dutch accent

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by bloak »

nmstoker wrote: post #157
virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #96

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Volkswagen is not an English word though

It has been adopted to a degree. Just like you don't need to say Paris as "Pari" in an imitation of the French pronunciation (which would probably sound rather affected and twee in English if you did) Anyway, let's hope they make reliable electric vehicles (as their combustion engine cars have traditionally been) otherwise people may render it as Faultswagen

Typically the capital city has an English name, which is often not just pronounced differently but also spelt differently from the local name. But for almost every other town English speakers use the same spelling, or a transcription of it, and aim for something like the local pronunciation. So for France, there's "Paris" and "Strasbourg" and that's about it. For Germany, there's "Berlin" and "Munich" and that's about it. But for some reason loads of Italian towns have their own English name: Venice, Milan, Naples, Florence, Turin, ...

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by tertius »

arbitrage wrote: post #225
kbos87 wrote: post #179

I previously owned a VW, but swore on my life that I'd never buy another one after the emissions cheating scandal. There are plenty of reasons why a VW likely wont be my next choice, but I'm softening my stance a bit. What they did was absolutely reprehensible, but I later learned that the more accurate story is that they bore the brunt of media attention for something that nearly every auto manufacturer was later fo…

> they bore the brunt of media attention for something that nearly every auto manufacturer was later found to be doing Maybe a better answer would be holding ALL of the automakers to task like we felt needed to be done with VW, instead of giving all of the parasitic capitalists a free pass to do it all over again.

How has that not been done?

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by reid »

swills wrote: post #242
aidenn0 wrote: post #218

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My dad used to joke that if you wanted sneakers that were not made by child labor, your best bet was whichever manufacturer last got into trouble for it because of all the extra scrutiny. That this level of fatalism about immoral acts exists is a failure of society as a whole. I suspect that all of those who got rich either knowingly or being willfully ignorant about emissions cheating walked away completely unpunish…

Fair and I mostly agree, but there are exceptions. New Balance for example makes a lot of it's shoes in the US.

Yes. My last 5 sneakers were New Balance Made in USA. I believe New Balance is the last brand of USA made sneakers, so I support them whenever I can.

Not all of what New Balance makes is domestic but they do have the Made in USA line available. Would love to have more options but thankfully these are quite good.

Re: Voltswagen of America

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Post by otterley »

adolph wrote: post #262

Nothing for "Voltswagen" in the United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) yet. https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli... Don't see anything in Germany either: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/basis.kopf.form

This is the best evidence yet that this is indeed an April Fool's prank.
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