Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Tour Egg? Tijuana?

Why does Volkswagen insist on giving its SUVs unpronouncable names?

First the Touareg...


...now the Tiguan?


I doubt any Tuareg buy Volkswagens, but it turns out that the Tiguan was the winner of a public naming contest in Germany, so I guess at least one country in the world can pronounce that one correctly.

2 comments:

rachel rianne said...

tiguan...
...tiger/iguana?

are you KIDDING me?



this may be culturally incorrect,
but germans are weird.

karlie nicole cooper. said...

i actually looked at the touraeg (TUR-AG)to buy. it was cool but really boring inside. then after i bought my car the tiguan came out...i wish i would've waited because it's a sweet car.

okay i realize this has nothing to do with the main idea of your post, i just wanted to share. and offer that touraeg = tur-ag.