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Snoozus · 2021-04-23 20:38:16+00:00

Voltswagen

grayprog | karma 861 | avg karma 12.13 · | 2021-03-30 15:25:00+00:00

Voltswagen - Resistance is futile

mssundaram | karma 759 | avg karma 2.27 · | 2021-04-02 19:01:23+00:00

Your comment made me realize that English speakers often render Volks in Volkswagen as Volts

Corrado | karma 5144 | avg karma 3.45 · | 2021-03-30 18:25:58+00:00

Their ID.4 website[0] has copy that uses Voltswagen liberally.

[0] https://www.vw.com/en/models/id-4.html

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myself248 | karma 9732 | avg karma 3.98 · | 2021-03-30 10:10:26

For decades, people have been doing DIY EV conversions based on the VW Beetle, and the colloquial term for them has been "Voltswagens".

It's surreal to see it embraced by a company that, just a few years ago, was pushing diesel to the point of a planet-scale fraud.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then... you win?

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moepstar | karma 1359 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2021-04-01 16:24:37+00:00

Tell that to Volts.. err, i mean Volkswagen... :S

samblr | karma 817 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2021-03-30 10:07:56

Volkswagen to Voltswagen

By having 'Volts' can they can grow market share ?

Can anybody think of a similar name change that worked before ?

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hanging | karma 849 | avg karma 6.79 · | 2019-02-06 03:51:06+00:00

Note: "Volkswagen", not Volkswagon

felixfbecker | karma 661 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2020-04-10 01:55:07

I can’t ignore that Volkswagen is consistently spelled Volkswagon

jlelse | karma 1190 | avg karma 4.7 · | 2021-03-30 16:37:02+00:00

I guess that's because they didn't change the name in Germany as well. "Volkswagen" is really easy to pronounce in German, but "Voltswagen" is just weird.

troelsSteegin | karma 677 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2021-03-30 19:39:43+00:00

Agreed. The Post says it's no joke: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/30/voltswage...

moklick | karma 774 | avg karma 4.78 · | 2021-03-30 15:23:43+00:00

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22357166/volkswagen-name-...

SahAssar | karma 5923 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2021-03-30 21:23:24+00:00

So https://www.vw.com/en/models/id-4.html says voltswagen and https://www.vw.com/en/models/atlas.html says volkswagen. Seems like it might stay around as a marketing name for the electrics.

threesixandnine | karma 270 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2016-03-10 08:00:41+00:00

mildchalupa | karma 123 | avg karma 2.41 · | 2023-09-01 10:14:40

devy | karma 10269 | avg karma 3.98 · | 2021-03-30 15:52:51+00:00

No, it's not a joke. https://electrek.co/2021/03/29/its-not-april-fools-yet-vw-wi...

s_dev | karma 5942 | avg karma 4.13 · | 2021-03-30 11:05:32

>really want to change the name why not just use "Volta"

Because that would be undoing the entire VW brand they've been building for decades at the cost of billions.

Voltswagen is a natural increment to Volkswagen while still maintaining that legacy branding.

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codeulike | karma 12665 | avg karma 4.84 · | 2021-06-19 19:13:07+00:00

VW are going electric pretty aggressively too

burlesona | karma 15177 | avg karma 8.16 · | 2021-03-30 18:59:19+00:00

I don't know if anyone else took like 3 paragraphs to realize this, but point is Volkswagen is is changing their name to Voltswagen -- as in VOLTS wagon - as in electricity.

I hate to admit this but I somehow couldn't see the change until I got to this quote:

“We might be changing out our K for a T, but what we aren't changing is this brand’s commitment to making best-in-class vehicles for drivers and people everywhere,” said Scott Keogh, president and CEO of Voltswagen of America.

Also, apparently not an early April Fool's joke: they confirmed the name change to Car and Driver: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35970854/vw-name-change-v...

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jrs235 | karma 5774 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2015-10-08 15:51:04+00:00

(Volkswagen)