How to pronounce car brand names correctly? Audi BMW Citroen Hyundai Mercedes Peugeot Porsche VW

We spend a lot of time discussing about car engines, speed, performance, how to handle a car, and how well it performs during a crash test, among other things. The automotive world is full of names and when it comes to their pronunciation, we do fumble. It's time we learn to say them right.

4. Audi: Its ‘oww-dee’ and not ‘aw-di’. Say as if you are hurt – oww-dee.

6. BMW: It’s easy in English but say it like the Germans do - ‘bey-em-vey’. The ‘w’ is pronounced as ‘v’.

8. Citroen: Citroen is French and most of the letters sound differently. This one is simple, it is pronounced as ‘seet-tro-en’.

14. Hyundai: Most of us get this car brand wrong. We usually call it – ‘Hyoon-dey’. And Americans choose to say it as ‘Hun-dey’, almost like Sunday.

16. Koenigsegg: Here is one of the toughest names to pronounce. This Swedish brand is pronounced as ‘kou-nig-zegg’.

22. Mercedes-Benz: Americans keep saying it as ‘mer-say-deez’. But put stress on the ‘r’ a bit and pronounce it like ‘mur-see-dus bents’.

28. Peugeot: Another French car brand name that bothers us. Remove ‘e’ and the ‘t’ from Peugeot and say it like ‘poo-jsho’. Yes that’s right. ‘Poo-jsho’.

29. Porsche: Do not stop at ‘porsh’; go right for the overrun ‘por-sha’. As simple as that!

30. Renault: Let’s delete the unwanted letter ‘l’ and ‘t’ and marry the letters ‘a’ and ‘u’. Put all of them together and you have ‘re-no’. Easy?

37. Volkswagen: The biggest car maker is pronounced as ‘folks-va-gun’. As per the Germans the ‘v ’is turned into ‘f’.

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