Jalopnik: The Only Chinese Automaker At Detroit Offers ‘Tweeter And Sackbut’ In Its Cars

cwerdna · Jan 16, 2013

The Only Chinese Automaker At Detroit Offers 'Tweeter And Sackbut' In Its Cars

In feng shui, "Chi" is the universal energy field that surrounds each of us. "Trump" is a wealthy buffoon who, by all appearances, is the product of an intimate encounter between a Connecticut WASP and an errant Homo erectus. The "Trumpchi," is a car by Chinese automaker GAC. Got it? Not yet, you don't...
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Besides the "Tweeter & Sackbut" setting, there was this hilarious quote:

It was a year of strange, partly-formed cars with crooked badges and signs and speeches with ill-translated marketing messages. It was the year Changfeng Motors showed off its Black Giant SUV, proudly proclaiming in a video that, "strong power drives its mighty body!" and then Changfeng's Chairman Li took to the stage and announced — to a massive crowd of international media — "I am going to come all over you." He probably meant Changfeng would soon be everywhere in America, but he couldn't have gotten the phrasing more hilariously wrong if Adam Reed wrote his dialog for him.
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xs650 · Jan 16, 2013

Here's another good quote

The vehicles GAC showed here in Detroit were hybrids with gear from AC Propulsion of San Dimas, California. The Trumpchi Hybrid, which looks very little like a 166, can travel 62 miles on electric power. C'mon. Isn't buying a hybrid Alfa Romeo like dating a supermodel with narcolepsy?
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cwerdna · Jan 16, 2013

Tweeter & Sackbut also showed up at China's GAC Group brings E-jet Concept, and bad translation, to Cobo

we did find the specification sheets for the two production cars to be replete with good/bad mistranslations. Lost in transmission were the meanings behind options like "Lamp of Sleeve," "Grainy Gearshift Levers" and the handy "Portable Ashtray." Though it was the utterly cryptic "Tweeter & Sackbut" feature that we'll be puzzling over the longest.
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Jalopnik: The Only Chinese Automaker At Detroit Offers ‘Tweeter And Sackbut’ In Its Cars

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