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> Chances are, you picked the alphanumeric names as the luxury cars and the name-names as mass-market cars. You did this even though there are at least two cars
by philh 10y ago
> Chances are, you picked the alphanumeric names as the luxury cars and the name-names as mass-market cars. You did this even though there are at least two cars in there you’ve never heard of, because I just made them up.
The tagline totally ruins the effect of this. "How a jumble of numbers and letters came to convey fanciness, while cute names came to mean value." Kind of gives the game away, even if I didn't recognize any of the cars.
(As it happens, I only recognize Yaris and Fiesta. I might have guessed based on those.)
- hammock 10y agoStill wouldn't matter even if they hadn't given it away in the subheadline, because the author cherry-picked the model names to support his point.