You've Probably Been Pronouncing All These Car Brands Wrong
Have you been pronouncing these car brands correctly? This video compares how Brits pronounce these major car brands to how people from the country of origin say the same names. You'd be surprised by the difference...
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Apparently Hyundai pronouces themselves wrong in their commercials
Škoda???
What if I told you that … NOBODY pronounces car brands name like in their country of origin? And that it doesn’t matter AT ALL…
And who talks about Ssangyong anyway ^^
I believe “Vauxhall” should be pronounced “Opel”. Where I’m from, everyone says “Crap” instead.
Haha that was good
In my home country we have a saying: “why don’t you sell the Opel and buy a car”
I’m knew most of these anyway but because I’m British I still don’t care how they pronounce it ;). Until an American comes along and says Jagwar! ;)
However it’s unacceptable for Porsche to be pronounced porsh or Volkswagen to be pronounced volswagen.. jk
So I only mispronounce the Hyundai? I’m amazed by my pronunciation skills.
I prononced Mazda wrong all of my life, and Mercedes, and Volkswagen, and Porsche…. For God sake!
Tbh here in germany they’re all pronounced pretty much correcty (Porsche, VW and Mercedes being german and that I never heard someone say Ssangyong certainly helps there though), but people more seem to struggle with things like Škoda (the “Š” being pronounced as a sharp “s” instead of “sch”/“sh”) or Lancia (the “ci” being pronounced as “schi”/“shi” instead of “(t)sch”/“(t)ch”).
Yeah, absolutely. But many Germans also say Skoda instead of Schkoda because it sounds better and more german (VW owns Skoda, they have VW tech etc), and the older models (~2000) didn’t even have the ^ on the S
So I live in Germany for quite a while now, I have a hard time believing BMW is really pronounced part english, part german. Ich habe immer gedacht, dass es Be Em We ist :D
BMW is only pronounced wrong if you say it as “bee emm double-you” in german. “W” in german is pronounced “vee”. in english, it’s pronounced “double-you”. so no technical mispronunciation there
What is funny is that i Spain we all say BMV
From Hungary, we pronounce all of them correctly :)