Don't let the 'q' fool you — there's no fancy footwork required to pronounce the name of Skoda's smaller SUV. Skoda's incoming compact crossover ends in more of an 'ick' than an 'eek'. So widespread is the poor pronunciation of Porsche that the German carmaker released a YouTube video to help people get it right.
You can watch it here. Porsche's first electric car has also been plagued by pronunciation woes, prompting yet another YouTube video, which you can watch here. It's worth noting, though, that regional dialects will often have the 'V' in Volkswagen pronounced as an F hence, it is the origin of a word commonly used in English conversation: folks!
Although the temptation when saying the name of Maserati's luxury executive car is to soften the first syllable in a European manner — 'zhee' — it actually has a hard 'g', like the 'g' in 'give'. Not even Elon Musk is sure about this one. When asked in an interview with 60 Minutes in the US how he pronounces his electric car brand, he said: "Actually, I think I probably say it with a slight 'z' sound, I hadn't thought about it! Like you're saying the first name of former royal Meghan Markle while letting out a sigh of relief.
Or you can run the first two syllables together like Americans do and end up with something that sounds, as the old Super Bowl ad used to say, 'like Sunday'. If you don't know what we're talking about, you can watch it here.
While many of us in this office included say 'Geely' with a hard 'g' like the one in 'geese', it's actually a soft 'g' like the one in 'gin'. This one takes a fair bit of French finesse, as per this video.
Susannah Guthrie has been a journalist since she was 18, and has spent the last two years writing about cars for Drive, CarAdvice, CarSales and as a motoring columnist for several in-flight and hotel magazines.
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