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Audi names its new car 'turd': German firm's e-tron tag is very close to French word for 'excrement'
Daily Mail Online ^
| 2/5/2019
| Sara Malm
Posted on 02/07/2019 5:39:23 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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Did a search but didn't find this posted yet.
Funny stuff.
A similar incident happened many years ago when the company I work for entered into discussions with Sony for a partnership in producing a cutting edge tape library data storage appliance.
After development and design were done, manufacturing was set to ramp up and start producing. Sony announced at a meeting that because this appliance would hold a huge number of tapes for data storage and petabytes of data, they were planning on naming this new tape library the Sony PetaFile.
The representatives from our company tried not to laugh and did well not to offend...but they did inform the Sony people that there is NO way they could use that name and explained exactly why.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Reminds me of Chevy Nova sales in Mexico.
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posted on
02/07/2019 5:41:48 AM PST
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Sorry, but Toyota beat them to the punch a couple of decades ago. The “Toyota Racing Division” has proudly emphasized the Toyota TRD ever since.
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posted on
02/07/2019 5:43:45 AM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Years ago we had an employee come into HR to add a newborn on his health insurance coverage. The child’s name was LaTrine
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Meh. Toyota did it first over 20 years ago with the TRD designation. How else are you gonna read that?
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posted on
02/07/2019 5:44:59 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
You’d think after Toyota’s TRD, companies would learn....
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posted on
02/07/2019 5:45:01 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
What gets me is that the E-Tron is basically the Audi Q7 design...just in electric battery design. They should have just called it the E7.
To: wastoute
I just told my Daughter this story yesterday.
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posted on
02/07/2019 5:50:10 AM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: pepsionice
They should have just called it the E7.Now that would be a grand name. Simple, but it says it.
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posted on
02/07/2019 5:51:52 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The media tend to speak in coordination, as if there were a single source behind their "journalism".)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
02/07/2019 5:53:08 AM PST
by
dangus
("The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops" -- St. Athanasius)
To: dangus
Naming a car after McConnell, McTurd. Love it.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
$80,000 for the E-Tron
$5,000 for the charger
$50,000 for the car to drive while the E-Tron is charging
That’s a lot to pay for transportation
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posted on
02/07/2019 5:56:57 AM PST
by
Haiku Guy
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Way back on FR. After 9-11 a new security agency was wanted/needed. It is know today Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Original named announced at Presser:
Federal Aviation Transportation Administration Security Service (FATASS).
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posted on
02/07/2019 6:04:00 AM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I you buy one of these Audi’s make sure you get the extended warranty..
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posted on
02/07/2019 6:04:30 AM PST
by
mowowie
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Reminds me of Dilbert when the company named its product by taking words from Astronomy and Engineering: Uranus Hertz.
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posted on
02/07/2019 6:06:31 AM PST
by
cdcdawg
To: NativeSon; wastoute
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posted on
02/07/2019 6:08:36 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
They should rename the brand “turd” for what their cars become once off warranty. German cars suck now, nice to look at but over engineered pieces of crap. I own three.
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posted on
02/07/2019 6:10:26 AM PST
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: wastoute
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posted on
02/07/2019 6:22:10 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
To: cdcdawg
Director Of Product Enhancements -DOPE.
Another Dilbert gem.
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posted on
02/07/2019 6:23:46 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
To: wastoute
Then there was the Chevy Citation, which can either be an award or that expensive piece of paper the cop gives you after pulling you over.
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posted on
02/07/2019 6:27:42 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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