Seriously, the Kompressor? Was someone’s German/American dictionary off by a little bit when this was brainstormed (in the German, brundsturmcht, I believe)?The car is not named the "kompressor" any more than the truck that just drove past is named the "Hemi" or Burt Reynold's '70s ride was named the "6.6 Litre".
(I would have just commented on his blog, but I didn't feel like opening a Wordpress account for the purpose. Maybe he'll notice in his Site Meter.)
A Wordpress account is cheap. It does not even require a pint of blood. Might'swell.
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People start to drinking
ReplyDeleteAnd go into a trance
Kompressor eat them up because
Kompressor does not dance!!!
Sorry.
I quickly got tired of explaining that little tidbit of information to people eyeballing the seventeen trillion little supercharged MBs around here.
ReplyDeleteI do quite like your comparison to the "Hemi" or "6.6 Litre".
tweaker
Maybe he'll notice in his Site Meter.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he didn't feel like opening a Sitemeter account. Heh.
Do you mean all of those high end cars I see driving around aren't named "turbo"?
ReplyDeleteI don't believe you, not for one second.
KOMPRESSOR DOES NOT... oh heck, someone beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in high school we refered to the Mazda (I think it's a Mazda) 3000GT as the "Booogt" because the "3" looked like a "B". We also called the Audi TT the "Toot-toot."
ReplyDeleteI've had exactly the same conversations. I guess my new car is an "AWD."
ReplyDeleteBTW - the 3000GT was a Mitsubishi.
Yeah, "Kompressor" is not the vehicle's name, but actually a German slang term for "even more complicated and expensive to fix than our normal shitboxes."
ReplyDeleteI drive a fourexfour! Fourex - eww! I'm never driving again!!! Those stickers are coming right off...eww! It doesn't get better it gets worse!
ReplyDeleteHey, I happen to *like* my Dodge Hemi! You know they come in car, truck, and wagon versions, right?
ReplyDeleteMitsubishi, Mazda ... one of those Asian brands that starts with "M". I was close.
ReplyDeleteI loved roaring around on my old goof suicide machine ( 600f Honda Hurricane ) ....
ReplyDeleteI remember the old stories from Pontiac dealers in rural East Texas who had customers coming in to see 'that new Pon'yac Goolie car'.
ReplyDelete6000 LE fail. "We Build Excitement" my left hind foot.
wv=ingne: whut yew fin' up unner da hood. Whut yew mean, it's a 'corporate' motor?
Regards,
Rabbit.
Joanna, you're not "car people," are you? (snerk)
ReplyDeleteAnd Mike Gallo, you've my sense of humor about such things, sir.
I have a white car with a nice radio. It is good. What do all of you have?
ReplyDeleteA silver car with a nice loud pedal. It leaks sometimes.
ReplyDeleteA grey car with no hubcaps and usually a lot of bird droppings.
ReplyDeleteIt's paid for.
I paid for mine before I drove it off the lot. $23k in '01. It seems like a better deal with every year that rolls by. :D
ReplyDeleteI've just "traded up" by selling a 2000 GMC Jimmy (with leather & moonroof, which I miss terribly) to my 16 year old niece. Its replacement, also sourced within the family, is a 2003 Chevy Venture mini-van with backup warning and dual power side doors... all I can say is, it holds more cargo and returns 25% more from a gallon of regular.
ReplyDeleteMy car is green and has wheels on the bottom.
ReplyDeleteirrit.arch.: Not as such, no.
ReplyDeleteI drive a red car with bumper stickers that get me grins from cops and scowls from hippies. It's a fun ride.
After visiting the brain surgeons blog, my only question for Tam is :
ReplyDeleteWhy were you wasting your time reading that drivel?
Should have put "Kommisar" on the rear end----Da Kommisar's in town--uh huh ho!
ReplyDeletewv: "smsordst" Norwegian for tubrocharger. . .
I drive a red two door domestic that was actually built domestically about 17 years ago. It's not terribly quick, but it has one of them fancy levers you move back and forth to select a gear, and three pedals...complicated it is.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he's ever wondered why so many sport compacts by so many different manufacturers are named the "R".
ReplyDeleteEscorts are hemis too. So are honda civics.
ReplyDelete"Escorts are hemis too. So are honda civics."
ReplyDeleteSo was Chrylser's 2.2L L4...
"Why were you wasting your time reading that drivel?"
Hey, I like Brian's blog.
Working Security years ago, a tenant asked me to have a car towed from her space. She said it was one of those 'Lee Cars' (?)
ReplyDeleteUpon arriving at the scene, it was a Renault Le Car...
So was Chrylser's 2.2L L4...
ReplyDeleteGood lord yes, I'd forgotten about that heifer. And they used that as the powerplant in the Grand Caravan, too. The very definition of anemia in motion.
Red. Yes, red, definitely red. With the rear seatback secured from inside the trunk. Which will (barely) hold a Garand and a bag of ammo. Just the basics.
ReplyDeleteA white car with a broken radio and the heat stuck on.
ReplyDeleteAt least it will stay cold through March. Some of the time, anyway. Where "cold" in this area is defined as "below 80".
I'm gonna rebadge a $25 Timex as the "Imperatif Kronometeur" (no, it doesn't mean anything, as far as I know, and I mean no disrespect to Timex, who make a serviceable watch for not much money) and make a mint. Worked for Tag Heuer, more or less.
ReplyDeleteWV: "supensol:" It's like Ballistol, but costs 150% more.
Jeeze, wotta wanker...
ReplyDeletewv: pureh. Growin' up in Detroit, pureh'sts would not hear of any of this furrin car crap.
If it is something unusual, two or three letters, no more. Think SS for the Bowtie crowd, SVT for the Ford guys, M-something for BMW, and for Mercedes, simply a little tiny badge reading AMG. That is all it takes.
ReplyDeleteThe Kompressor badge would be a tiny bit less sucky if the cars had more power than a MAZDASPEED3 which costs an awful lot less.
Jim
Roommate recently wrecked his m230 Kompressor. Replaced it with a 320 v6? Complained that the turbo car felt out of breath at 80+ going to NV. Says the bigger engine runs a lot better at speed. Seems like MB didn't do it right. My turbo Talon is just starting to make serious power at that speed, and goes to 140 pretty quick.
ReplyDeleteThat Cargo Cult stuff doen't work. I had read that millionaires mostly drive F-150s, so I bought one, and here I am eating ramen noodles, and some Obama voter made keyscratches on both doors.
ReplyDelete(I know it was an Obama voter because she couldn't spell F*#k You! with the Sharpie she also used, since erased.)
I've got a silver '05 Civic VP 4dr. that the wife drives, a Fiji Blue Metallic '06 Civis Si coupe that's my daily, and a flat black '72 Cutlass with a 362cid Olds that runs 11's.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the wife has her late father's green '30 Model A.
And here I feel like a car geek for knowing that the twin tailpipe tips and slightly bulged fenders denote the presence of a six-banger under the hood of a Zed Drei...
ReplyDeleteSo, Tam,
ReplyDeleteif you were going to replace your current ride, what would you get?
Hmmm... I'd probably look for a low-mileage E36/M52 BMW sedan. The IS-series Lexii are also tempting.
ReplyDeleteOne of my dream cars would be to find an early Lexus SC with low numbers on the clock...