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Posted by: GeorgeRud Dec 2 2011, 02:37 PM

I just changed my background on the site to the yellow one. It's marked as Canary Yellow, but the translation is Zitrongelb (which is lemon yellow if I remember my German correctly). Anyone else noticed this? Gustl?

Posted by: Dave_Darling Dec 2 2011, 06:42 PM

Several colors were called different names in the English and German versions.

Our "Tangerine" was "Blutorange" (blood orange), for instance.

IIRC, there were also at least a couple of colors that were re-named at some point in production; I want to say that Saturn Yellow was one of those?

--DD

Posted by: SirAndy Dec 2 2011, 07:34 PM

QUOTE(GeorgeRud @ Dec 2 2011, 12:37 PM)

I just changed my background on the site to the yellow one. It's marked as Canary Yellow, but the translation is Zitrongelb (which is lemon yellow if I remember my German correctly). Anyone else noticed this? Gustl?

My guess is the Americans didn't like the words lemon and Porsche used in the same sentence?

Posted by: biosurfer1 Dec 2 2011, 11:03 PM

It happens to our cars going to other countries too...any guess why the Chevy Nova had terrible sales in Spanish speaking countries?

Posted by: KELTY360 Dec 3 2011, 01:33 AM

QUOTE(biosurfer1 @ Dec 2 2011, 10:03 PM)

It happens to our cars going to other countries too...any guess why the Chevy Nova had terrible sales in Spanish speaking countries?

Doesn't No va translate to No Go?

Posted by: SirAndy Dec 3 2011, 01:21 PM

QUOTE(biosurfer1 @ Dec 2 2011, 09:03 PM)

any guess why the Chevy Nova had terrible sales in Spanish speaking countries?

Because it's not true?

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

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