Another Munro teardown video: Base Taycan

[WuffvonTrips]

This was my first exposure to the Porsche name-

...and this was one of the first times I heard different-

...that coincided with actually starting to see the cars on the roads during the yuppee boom- until then they were far-away and exotic.

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[or1]

... butchering 'coupé'.

That's a good one, as "coupé" can actually mean cut-off.

 

[TXSchnee]

Would your grandkids be willing to cancel all sales to people who cannot pronounce your last name? Would that be considered a good business decision by the shareholders?

The global village is shrinking fast. Languages and nationalities are mixing. Companies grow internationally and their names are pronounced differently in different regions. Such is life on an international entity.

Full disclosure, I have a very German last name. I have lived in a number countries in my life (never lived in Germany, don't speak German, only visited there twice in my whole life). People often don't pronounce it correctly, it never bothered me. But then again, I never get offended as a rule, since I believe getting offended is a losing proposition - either the other party did not intend to offend me, so I got offended for no reason, or the other party did intend to offend me, in which case getting offended is playing straight into their hand - logic says, getting offended is always a losing proposition. My wife and daughter tell me I'm too nice because I don't get offended, even though it has nothing to do with niceness, just plain pragmatic approach to life. Yes, I am an engineer.

No, I would assume money would overcome the objection to name pronunciation. My kids have my married name, which is still German, but very easy to pronounce. Honestly, the funniest thing about having a hard to pronounce name is hearing others try to say it correctly. It is fairly common for letters to be added, switched around, or someone to give up half way through trying. Not offended by it, at all, was merely pointing out that there is, objectively a correct way to pronounce Porsche, as it is a last name.

 

[whitex]

there is, objectively a correct way to pronounce Porsche, as it is a last name.

I think this is the point that not everyone (myself included) will agree. I speak more than one language, and have seen the same last names spelled the same but pronounced differently in different languages (including by the very people who have this last name). Technically, if you could somehow recreate a genealogical family tree and figure out the very first ancestor who actually had this last name, you could infer the original pronunciation for your family last name, but it would likely be in some ancient version of the language. Even your maiden name might have been pronounced differently by your far ancestors than the way you pronounce it today. I would bet the German today sounds different than Germanic tribes from 400BC, or even German language of 1000AD. Languages evolve over time, as do their pronunciations, including different dialects and/or accents.

 

[f1eng]

I speak more than one language, and have seen the same last names spelled the same but pronounced differently in different languages

Me too and accents vary anyway, even within a country. I travelled worldwide for over 30 years and experienced the variety.

I know people who put effort into correct pronunciation of foreign languages and others who are baffled that people don't understand their, for example, Anglicised pronunciation of words, or worse shouting English slowly...

 

[gkellogg]

Came across this summary and perspective on the Monroe teardown: https://www.theautopian.com/manufac...n-and-discover-yet-another-bowl-of-spaghetti/.

If VW/Audi ever finish their second generation EV platform (planned for the Macan), I would expect it to also result in some future generation of the Taycan platform. For a low-volume car, the Taycan works extremely well. The main thing I'd be looking for for a future replacement for my GTS would be a significant improvement in battery technology, with lighter and more power-dense battery technology. For my purposes, the current range is just fine.

 

[violuma]

Technically, if you could somehow recreate a genealogical family tree and figure out the very first ancestor who actually had this last name, you could infer the original pronunciation for your family last name, but it would likely be in some ancient version of the language.

There's an additional complication here, and I doubt my story is particularly rare. The way my last name is written is an artifact of how the immigration officer chose to write down how my illiterate ancestor spoke it. Then things started drifting further from that already unmoored starting point.

 

[whitex]

There's an additional complication here, and I doubt my story is particularly rare. The way my last name is written is an artifact of how the immigration officer chose to write down how my illiterate ancestor spoke it. Then things started drifting further from that already unmoored starting point.

Very true, I've seen it many times. Both my sisters changed the spelling of their first names (not family name, but addressing a similar problem) so that English speakers would pronounce it correctly.

 

[cometguy]

If VW/Audi ever finish their second generation EV platform (planned for the Macan), I would expect it to also result in some future generation of the Taycan platform. For a low-volume car, the Taycan works extremely well. The main thing I'd be looking for for a future replacement for my GTS would be a significant improvement in battery technology, with lighter and more power-dense battery technology. For my purposes, the current range is just fine.

It's been circulated that the Macan Electric will have either a 100- or 105-kWh battery pack. I assume that this pack will go into the Taycan, as well, in the next year.

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