WA
12889 posts
This is weird, when I started reading the write up in the local rag, I thought the guy had made a mistake, electric cars don't have turbos. He's also talking about "over boost" making it sound like an internal combustion engine.
Germans have a reputation for being "precise" but this is really mangling the language.
Is another case of marketing gone made?
WA
15111 posts
Golfs already have that feature where the audio system makes it sound like different types of cars. It makes sense in a way. Why have a noisy car all the time when you can have one only when you feel like it.
No doubt the use of Turbo and Over Boost is needed to differentiate cars. If everyone was the same, who would buy the expensive ones versus the pedestrian models?
Marketing does make a difference. A lot of people think that 'twin cam' is better. They don't know what a cam is though, or why it might be better to have two.
QLD
1458 posts
And Elon Musk is giving Porche heaps of shyte over it
QLD
3691 posts
Yet my Vacuum Cleaner, hair dryer, Turbo Diesel Kite, shaver, Nutribullet and so on have Turbo references or modes.
Are you telling me they don't have Turbo tech????
1393 posts
Just buy a V12 Ferrari they don't have turbos eh bro hehe
NSW
466 posts
I picked up on this when I saw the article a few months ago. It seems turbo is no longer a mechanical component but a marketing term. applied to shavers and all manner of other things that have nothing to do with a turbo. Surely using a turbo name on a car without a turbo is misleading enough to be an issue though.... and from Porsche who make a great turbo engine. I might have expected it from a lesser brand trying to bling things up.
NSW
9207 posts
I have a Pro model toothbrush, and I'm not even a dentist.
