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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: GTI vs. GTi
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 06:07:55 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov20.204426.26460@ee.rochester.edu>
- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, msirota@ee.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) says:
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- >I have a simple, innocent question. Why do so many Americans insist on
- >calling it a GTi rather than a GTI? I know that in Great Britain, it's a
- >GTi. As far as I know, that's true *only* in Great Britain -- or is it also
- >true in the rest of Europe?
- >
- >I've never seen anyone in the US calling the Rabbit a "Golf", or referring to
- >the Jetta as a "Vento", nobody used "Passat" when talking about the Quantum.
- >Why is there this odd loyalty to the British name of the GTI?
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- gee..immediate reaction to this...when you are in a conversation, what is
- the difference between GTI and GTi? nothing. and when you are typing, you
- type "G" and "T" with the same shift key held down, but have to switch
- whenever you go to the "I"..makes it slightly easier to type "i". also, some
- of us read some European car magazines, in which, i'm sure, they refer to the
- GTI as GTi..myself, i was not aware that GTi was only in the UK, others may
- be the same, i just assumed the two to be interchangable, since, in a
- conversation, it makes no difference which you use. also, GTI=GTi,
- but Rabbit<>Golf, and Jetta <> Vento, etc in a conversation..u c? this
- would be my guess...
- DREW
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