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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=antp,3751]"DS" means "Godess" in French, we already told you that :p It is not a bad name at all [:kiki] About "Partner", I guess it is more for "co-worker" than "husband"/"wife" :lol: I find that "Entourage" is quite a lame name, it just looks stupid like lots of US/asian name taken from French. Some were listed there: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=13244 Mitsubishi Pajero (= masturbation, in Spanish) Toyota MR2 (pronounced nearly like "merde" in French, which means shit) Buick LaCrosse Mazda Protegé... spelling mistake of a French word, and as said on the forum it was not very "protégé" (=protected) as it was easy to steal [/quote]
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antp

But what about rest of Europe then, where it is also sold as Yaris? :grin:

Lateef

I'd like to point out that the reason Toyota Vitz is sold in Norway as Yaris, is because everyone'd pronounce Vitz as Vits, which means joke.

Road Wars Fanatic

How about the Daihatsu Naked? Has that been mentioned?

crazyforcars12

Has the Proton Savvy been mentioned yet?
What about Morris Minor?

lastinpurple

For me, the most stupid name is the Rover Cityrover. I don't see the point at repeating the Rover brand at the model name. But probably they did it because Rover City sounds 3 times worst.

antp

Indeed, "say-at" seems to match how the name is said in French, not sure about original Spanish pronunciation.
But my message was rather about model names actually.

G-MANN

The problem with the name Seat is it reads "seet" (as in chair) in English, I think the correct pronunciation is "Say-At". They should have put an accent over the "a" or something.

antp

In French these names are fine, but maybe in non-latin languages it is more a problem (I do not know what is in these video, right now I cannot watch them).

lastinpurple

Quote From: G-MANN

I always thought Seat was a stupid name for a car. I know it's pronounced "Say-At" but it's still spelt the way as the other word for chair. And then there's the Seat Arosa, which is a real dodgy name. Seat Arouser, sounds like something you'd buy in a sex shop.

Seat means "Sociedad Española de Automóviles y Turismos" (Spanish Society of Cars and Automobiles). I think that Seat has very nice names (The Seat Ibiza, says that is a funny and nippy car, as Ibiza is) But the problem was when Seat exported it's cars, making names easy to pronunce in Spanish as Marbella or Cordoba unpronunceable in other languages, as those videos prove: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVFyjNd2Vxw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54C38TWC1Qs&mode=related&search=

For me, this is completly funny!

MBSL65fan

If I'm right, There is a car company called "Yes" and another called a "Diet" :grin:

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