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Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources

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Re: Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources

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It is quite interesting from a branding perspective how hard it may be for traditional car companies to convince you to buy their electric car. Is a company like VW really investing, in the long run, in electric cars in the way Tesla is? Should I _really_ trust their one-off electric car they build to dip their toe in? You wonder what it WOULD take for VW, Chevy, Ford, Toyota etc to convince you their product and com…

Ford putting the Mustang brand on an EV is a pretty big indicator to me.

Re: Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources

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How ever could anyone believed in VOLTSWAGEN?

I thought it plausible since a lot of people pronounce the k as a t (I used to when I was a kid) and this would just formalize it.

Even more notable is the change in the v. Volt and volk are pronounced differently in German (not just in the t/k part).
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