What automotive words do you hate?

"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
08/11/2014 at 11:52 • Filed to: None

For me

jugs

pumpkin

tranny

use any of these and I think you're a moron who uses baby names for things as well, like calling a bottle a bahbah or when you have to piss you tinkle and when you eat too many microwaved nachos your tummy hurts.

DISCUSSION (32)

For Sweden > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 11:53

Fox

Crocket Bernet > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 11:53

What the hell are jugs and pumpkins?

Brian Silvestro > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 11:54

dynamic

Frank Grimes > For Sweden
08/11/2014 at 11:55

like this? "man that car is a fox!"

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Crocket Bernet
08/11/2014 at 11:55

I don't know about jugs, but a pumpkin can refer to a differential.

Imirrelephant > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 11:57

I have been quite tired of journos using "proper" for some time.

ncasolowork2 > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 11:57

dealership

The word dealership implies getting a deal.

For Sweden > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 11:58

Like this

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Crocket Bernet
08/11/2014 at 11:59

Jugs for a two-stroke at least refers to a cylinder. Most two-strokes have a cylinder that comes off the block, thus having a somewhat jug-like shape. Expanding that colloquialism to all cylinders may be done by some people, I don't know.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 11:59

tranny is pretty terrible.

I will admit I do say Foggies when referring to awesome fog lights.

I think the British names for car parts are funny - bonnet, boot, backbox.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Brian Silvestro
08/11/2014 at 12:00

Unless the car is actually a "Dynamic" as its model name, and is pronounced all French-like.

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KirkyV > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 12:00

'Shitbox', mainly. It's not really used where I live, and as 'shitboxes' - that is, small hatchbacks - are one of my favourite varieties of cars, I've always found it a little off-putting when I see it on this site, even as a term of endearment.

I'm not the greatest fan of 'econobox', either.

 V8 Rustler > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 12:03

Flappy-paddle gearbox.

KirkyV > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
08/11/2014 at 12:05

What's a backbox in American?

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 12:05

I can't say which words I hate, because I'd get run out of here with pitchforks and torches.

Frank Grimes > For Sweden
08/11/2014 at 12:06

hate the mustang eh? or you just hate that its called a fox instead of mustang.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 12:07

What I think of when I hear Tranny:

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BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Frank Grimes
08/11/2014 at 12:07

It's a tagline, but 'puts the fun back into driving'.

It's usually attached to cars in advertising campaigns. Cars that have a mechanism for getting better fuel economy by sucking the soul from their drivers and running on that in some kind of tediousness-based hybrid system.

Frank Grimes > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/11/2014 at 12:08

Kinja'd!!!