Yes and that's exactly why that type of marketing works.
Car terminology that makes you cringe
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Yes and that's exactly why that type of marketing works.
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Does this conversation really happen?
Caporegime
Personally, no, never heard that. I have however heard the "Yeah but this one is an M-Sport, so it's faster" As if somehow sticking M badges all over the car makes it faster than an SE or Sport.
- I'll get a lot of hate for this as it's widely used here, but for me I can't stand "place to be", usually prefixed by "nice" but people now like to mix it up a bit and use something like "not a terrible" to elongate it even further. Soon we'll be seeing "in all honesty not the worst place to be be, except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the lane departure warning".
- "First to see will buy" - from this we must infer nobody thinks it is worth seeing, otherwise someone would have bought it already.
- "Leather" when used to describe something that isn't genuine leather, usually with some extra word tacked on so they can get away with it.
- "Stage n" - as others have said
- "ICE" to mean Internal Combustion Engine instead of In Car Entertainment. I appreciate it's quicker than saying "petrol/diesel" but couldn't we have landed on a different acronym?
- "Careful owner" - that's a shame I was really looking for a car with a reckless owner. Bonus points if they are a lady owner because the gender of the previous owner is by far the most important piece of info about a prospective purchase.
Remove.
It's not cool to 'remove' your diesel particulate filter for example, you delete it.
Don
Yes, had it several times with work collegues. Usually sales reps.
Caporegime
When you delete your air con for example and remove the entire system.
On another note:
"Fully synthetic oil"
When its actually not
Caporegime
Don
OK you got me, what does that mean?
TBH the word "detailing" makes me cringe. Surely it just means cleaning thoroughly? Do people detail the dishes after dinner or detail their living-room carpet?
Beating someone in a race by such a huge margin there is a very large gap involved.
Or more commonly found on Facebook when someone in a remapped Golf R has marginally nosed in front of a Lambo that didn't even know it was in a race
Caporegime
Stage 3 detailing
Soldato
Dirt delete
Caporegime
Daily Dirt DeleteDirt delete
Personally, no, never heard that. I have however heard the "Yeah but this one is an M-Sport, so it's faster" As if somehow sticking M badges all over the car makes it faster than an SE or Sport.
Probably makes it slower because bigger wheels and more bloat inside the car. Plus all the extra badges
Soldato
Fully loaded is one I see all the time on the BMW E6x groups I'm in - they did come with a large choice of options, but literally every 'fully loaded' example will have one or two things like heated seats and HiFi speakers.
Not seen one properly 'fully loaded' for a while now.
Delete is an annoying one - you've removed it, not deleted it!
'Low mileage for this engine, barely run in' plastered all over any Diesel advert (with 200k on the clock inevitably) is getting rather annoying too
Not seen one properly 'fully loaded' for a while now.
Delete is an annoying one - you've removed it, not deleted it!
'Low mileage for this engine, barely run in' plastered all over any Diesel advert (with 200k on the clock inevitably) is getting rather annoying too
Soldato
People who obsess about car terminology make me cringe. It is what it is...