How To Pronounce The Hardest Automotive Words
The automotive world is full of foreign words. Italians, Germans, French and all the rest came up with stuff that had to be translated to English. Now, it only takes a little effort to learn the proper pronunciation, and since Top Gear won't help you with that, we will!
Here are the ten most difficult cases:
10.) Peugeot/Renault/Citroën
Oh, the bloody French! They always make it difficult, don't they? Anyway, it's not as bad as it seems. For example, I could tell you that Peugeot is Pözsó, but English speakers may find this more helpful:
The recipe is the same with Renault. I mean Rönó!
And Citroën has nothing to do with lemons:
Suggested By: DasWauto
How do English speakers pronounce Citroën?
9.) Huayra/Touareg/Tuatara
Ok, so you want your product to sound exotic. I guess that's understandable when you actually sell an exotic like the 'WHY-ra' or the SCC 'too-UH-tara', but what's up with that 'TWA-reg' bloated SUV from the Germans?
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8.) Škoda
Eastern European car names don't exactly translate in the West. The most confusing is the Czech Škoda. The French-owned Romanian car Dacia isn't easy and neither is Zaporozhets. They called it Запоро́жець in Soviet Ukraine.
Suggested By: Speedmonkey
Everybody calls it Poor-sh except for James May (and you, Matt) who call it Por-sher.
7.) Hyundai
They say it's like 'Sunday' and that might be it, but than again, it might not. Nobody knows for sure.
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Hyundai (Like Sunday)
6.) Doppelkupplungsgetriebe
You can try and say 'Dough-pell-COOP-LOONGS-gehTREEB-eh,' but then you can just say you've got a DSG.
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5.) Lancia
Dear BBC,
Please tell Jeremy Clarkson and the rest of the English speaking world that there isn't a car brand called Laan-cia. It's pronounced 'Lan-cha'. That's how you call the guys who made the Stratos.
4.) Touge
It's Japanese for the mountain roads where you race uphill and downhill very fast. 'Toe-geh' is the way to go, always above 8000 rpm.
Suggested By: Reborn Pyrrhic
How about Touge, or Tōge, the Japanese word for pass, as in mountain pass. I have heard all kinds…
3.) Magnetorheological
It's the liquid that makes your dampers adapt faster in the corners. Great for ride and handling, but still a mouthful.
Suggested By: ReverendDexter
magnetorheological (I think that&apos;s right).
2.) Murciélago
It's Spanish and not Italian, for starters. Listen to this man, he will guide you through 'mur-SEEYE-la-GO.' And don't go around saying Guhlardo, either. It's 'Guy-yar-doh.'
Suggested By: moarpowerr
A lot of people mispronounce Murcielago.
1.) Koenigsegg
It shouldn't be too difficult, right? You've got the first part, Koenig, which is the same as König in German. It means king. Than, you've got the segg part, which would be "zeg". Königzeg. But what happens when you ask for assistance? Disaster:
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