Car abbreviations, do they annoy you!?

[xen_]

I think when most people say it on here it's just a joke really, I think it may have started on Top Gear, I seem to remember May saying something like that.

 

[Scania]

Yes, it really narks me!

I'm not sure when it gets to me the most, when I'm driving my Scanny or my Beemer........ ?

 

[Dorje]

Ah fail on my part!

Also my friend calls his MX5 X. He may be the only one then!

Think your friend is on his own then, MX-5's normally get abbreviated to 5's. Never heard of X, certainly.

 

[Ricochet J]

Nothing wrong with "Merc", or "Beamer". "Scooby" on the other hand?

 

[Felix Da Housecat]

Fezza
Beemer
RX or Rex
Pug
BM


Grrrrr

 

[rypt]

Definitely. I keep a copy of my bank balance handy for just such an occasion.

Just the other day a Corsa driver sniggered as he drove past, I naturally caught him up and passed him a copy of my most recent profit and loss accounts, that soon shut him up.

Peasant.

So why didn't you buy a 911 then?

 

[eidolon]

So why didn't you buy a 911 then?

Whoooshhhh.......... guess that one passed you by then?

 

[Fireskull]

Krapasaki

None really annoy me, but dont really like gix-er prefere it pronounced jixer, but when typed not bothered gixer/gixxer means same thing.

 

[Muffin`]

/makes note of people complaining and to make use of them as much as possible in futire

 

[Gaijin]

I hate the term "Tubby" to describe a turbocharger. Guaranteed way to make yourself sound like a spaz if you ask me.

I also got into trouble at a rolling road day from referring to an S2000 as a "skip". To my knowledge its never been a derogotory term or likened to a skip of the rabbit type, moreso a play on the "S2K" acronym.

I got fed up after 30 seconds of trying to explain in to the touchy ****er in question, and ended up telling him to **** off and wind his neck back in.

 

[TaKeN]

A Skip.. lmao

 

[Morba]

I hate the term "Tubby" to describe a turbocharger.

i only hear that from MR2 owners really, like they have to distinguish themselves from the non turbo owners

 

[mr tommo]

I thought Zed = 350z? or the other Z cars?

I thought so too but the Z4 forum is full of Zed. There's a lot of americans on there though so it might just be them.

 

[BigglesPiP]

I don't mind them, can't really shorten 146, but it's powered by a twinny.

 

[Fr0dders]

vauxhall is shortenned to vixer

doesnt bother me i have to say.

 

[ironman]

vauxhall is shortenned to vixer

doesnt bother me i have to say.

Really? I've never heard vixer before...

Heres a couple more,

f-cars
p-cars
'rari

 

[ScoobyDoo69]

Scooby isn't an abbreviation, it's a nickname ?

And what's wrong with Pug? I say it in real life more than Peugeot. "the pug" "the scooby" works for me..

 

[PardonTheWait]

My favourite is Valver.

Hang on... so it's got valves.
So what you're saying is its not two-stroke... and that's it. That's all you're giving me.

 

[deko]

I truly hate people using 'vag'.

 

[kaiowas]

It's all very well complaining abut how most of these aren't much shorter to type and only save a few keystrokes but what you're forgetting is that some people occasionally leave the internet and venture out into the real world where we use this thing called "speech"

Almost all of of these shortened names take a word of 3-4 syllables and shorten it to 1 or 2 thus making it a much quicker word to say in day to day conversation. Once the shortened name is in regular use people end up typing it without really thinking or realising that they're doing it.