In Australia Hyundai have just started marketing a car called the “ActiveX”. I don’t know what the marketing people at Hyundai were thinking when they decided to name a vehicle after something that has the reputation of being unreliable, requiring frequent updates, and constantly causing crashes. Obviously none of them are Windows OS programmers.
Perhaps they decided to be honest about their new car
Maybe that will be pre-installed?
Since every country in the world has a different way of pronouncing the name “Hyundai” it would be interesting to hear how the Germans say it… as long as it is not pronounced ‘Hun-Die’.
Google (if right) says something like “hund”
https://translate.google.se/#ko/en/Hyundai
Jun-del - but then I like to play with words. Their European technical development center is in Rüsselsheim-Königstädten. Try to pronounce that one A friend of mine lives a couple of minutes away from it so I’ve driven past it a few times.
The ActiveX is hilarious.
And apparently, nobody at General Motors speaks Spanish. First, they had the Chevy Nova (No Va), which didn’t inspire confidence in Spanish speakers. Now, after having named their plug-in hybrid the Chevy Volt, they are apparently serious about naming their forthcoming battery electric car the Chevy Bolt. (While we English speakers make a clear distinction in pronunciation between the B and V sounds, they are pretty much identical in Spanish.)
They shoulda let the engineers name the cars, rather than the marketing department…
Why couldn’t they go back to good old honest names like the GM Skid Master and the Ford Crumple.
Don’t attribute that quote to me. I was just debunking it.
[quote=199559:@Albin Kiland]Google (if right) says something like “hundä”
https://translate.google.se/#ko/en/Hyundai [/quote]
Lets hear it from the mouth of a Korean [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0UovyM8Ni0[/url]
Hyundai still has to make one good car. They are horrible unreliable. Especially the iX35 is plain rubbish, noisy, bad engine (even the most powerful one lacks any torque).
Its cheap. though.