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Voltswagen of America
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Re: Voltswagen of America
#82I wonder how much internal resistance there was to this shocking name change.
> I wonder how much internal resistance there was to this shocking name change.
"Ohm-y!" And who was charged with leading this change?
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#83Earlier 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.
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.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#84this is the "IHOB" of cars
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#85What is the relative difference in emissions between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car that is recharged by power from a coal-burning plant?
Assuming this is a good faith question, the pollution generated by ICE cars driving 1+ metre away from me pollutes the air I breathe in a much more concentrated way than the pollution generated by a power plant 10+ miles away.
Air pollution in cities is a real problem that nobody really talks about because there's no easy solutions.
I don't drive an EV, because it's not practical / affordable for me yet. I hope this changes soon.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#86403 ERROR The request could not be satisfied. The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent t…
I can see it from Europe.
Re: Voltswagen of America
#87Earlier 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.
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. :)
Re: Voltswagen of America
#88This 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 is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it.
If they changed the name because of how people perceive them, they would have pick a name which is different than the current name, not the same name changing only one letter :)
They do it, because they want to get the valuation of a electric car company
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#89403 ERROR The request could not be satisfied. The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent t…
Seems to work fine from Germany, but here's the archive.org link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210330121521/https://media.vw....
Re: Voltswagen of America
#90403 ERROR The request could not be satisfied. The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent t…
Can confirm it is still up and working for me. I am located in the continental US with an IP that nominally appears to be US based. Maybe they have configured CloudFront in an "interesting" way.