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