Re: Quattro Definition ?????

[Robert Myers <rmyers@wvit.wvnet.edu>]

Kinda like the marketing ploy of Chebby and their Nova in S. America?  
Nova meaning "no go" in Spanish.  :-)  I wonder why the Nova didn't sell 
very well down there.  :-)

>   Move 1 country to the right and you'll note that Quattro means four in
> Italian.  The move was probably for the same reason Pontiac used the model
> name Fiero, which ~means pride in Italian. A little marketing panache never
> hurts, besides 4 in Germwn is hard to pronounce, hard to hear and probably
> has little recognition outside of Germany. 
> Mike
> 


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