Car names - Sorry for wasted BW - NAC

[Efraim Gavrilovich]

Where did you get this infomation?? Quick trip to Google produced the
following info:
Doninvest is a financial industrial group which lists, among other
enterprises, a car assembling facility called "Aksay".
By the way, "accent" in Russian has the same meaning as in English and is
pronounced almost identically. Russian happens to be my Mother tongue.
Aksay is assembling Hyundai ACCENT, Daewoo models ESPERO and NEXIA modified
to meet Russian market requirements and Sitroen ORION. They also manufacture
models CONDOR and ASSOL'.
Now, the name you referring to as Assholb doesn't have letters "b" or "h" in
it. What you saw as "b" is a Russian character which doesn't have an
equivalent in English. It makes preceding "L" sounding very soft, almost as
L in Blue. This name sounds in Russian very much different from "asshole".
The name is actually a girl's name from one very famous Russian book.

Doninvest link is http://www.doninvest.ru/aksay/cars_list.htm

Search for Volumex Bimbo on Google produced just one link to a porn site.
Sorry for a wasted bandwidth, I couldn't resist.

Efraim Gavrilovich
1988 5KTQ 335,000km (208K mi), 1.8 Bar
1990 90 111,000km (68K mi)
Vancouver, Canada


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Haseltine" <Jim at ur-q.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "audifans" <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 3:39 AM
Subject: Car names


> Would you admit to owning either of these?
>
> Both are Russian.....
>
> Volumex Bimbo
>
> but better than that,
>
> Doninvest build what is basically a re-badged Hyundai Accent. But 'Accent'
> is obscene in Russian so they are badged 'Assholb' and yes, you've guessed
> it - pronounced 'Asshole'.
>
> Its almost worth buying one just for the name.......
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Haseltine
>
>
>