This car sits at an odd place. For very little more money (and no wait list shenanigans), you can get a Golf R with AWD, optional DCT, more comfort, nicer interior. For almost $10k less, you can get an Elantra N that fills the “FWD with lots of power and drives awesome with a decent interior” role pretty well, and…

There’s also the very clickbait title: You’re Pronouncing All the German Car Brand Names Wrong.

No way.

Maybe let’s agree to say “I’ll have an ass-engined Nazi slot car and a cheese didlydoo please.”

I’ll have a Porscha and a cheese kwessadiller please.

I guess that would be true if the "Germans" in the US spoke German.

I agree with you on some level, but if you pronounce quesadilla like “kwas-uh-dill-uh” and not because you are trying to be funny/ironic, you’re gonna look like a dumbass.

American exceptionalism seems to be alive and well, at least when it comes to wildly mispronouncing German names.

I’ll take “shit no one else on earth gives a shit about except for pretentious Americans” for $500 Alex.

“... and she is an actual German from Munich who now inexplicably lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Why Cinci? I couldn’t say, but I also can’t recommend it.”

I hear this a lot, especially from Porsche clowns. Until you pronounce other non-English words (looking at you, Mexican food fans) correctly, fuck off with this pretentiousness.

Years ago, I was at a new grocery store that had a pretentious Cheese area with some snobby bastard.

When I’m talking to someone whom English is not their native language, I don’t have a shit fit whenever they “mispronounce” words.

I’ve literally never heard anyone pronounce it Poor-She.

News flash: unless you are fluent in a bunch of languages, you’re probably pronouncing a lot of shit wrong. Take Hyundai for example.

Counterpoint:

Had fiST, bought ford approved short shift kit, installed by dealer. Kit failed, had to coast home in 4th, dealer initially said no coverage... hoo boy was that a fun chat. Finally covered.

To a point, sure, but no dealer in the country will do a significant repair under warranty that the manufacturer refuses to pay them for. And no dealer wants to get a chargeback during a warranty audit or after a manufacturer failed part pullback for an owner abuse/competition/operator error repair they submitted on…

This seems more of a British faux-pa, of NOT providing world leaders with secure and more dignified manner of transportation befitting their status. I’m sure the royal family didn’t arrive in a shuttle. It’s not like the Brits don’t have limousines at least.   It might have taken a few more than a shuttle but more…

A shuttle crammed with world leaders--with or without the U.S. President--seems like a pretty bad idea in terms of security in general.  Sure, maybe nobody has real beef with the PM of Belgium, but a terrorist attack on (what I presume) a vehicle with a whole gaggle of world leaders would be a big ugly deal.