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Not a good name for a car

September 20th, 2009

Wasn’t sure whether to post this on Twitter or Facebook, but thought perhaps the blog was just the place and so that way it wouldn’t disappear below a whole load of other posts that quickly!

Renault’s marketing people have - as the title suggests - given a very poor name to their new eco car.

It’s called the Fluence.

Unfortunately if you put an e at the start of that, it sounds like e(f)fluence.

To be fair, an effluence is a flowing out, something being let loose.  In my mind it has connotations of a bit of a pong.

He used to say ‘what an obnoxious effluvium’.  Quite a vocabulary building lesson for a seven year old.

So, a car called Fluence might be okay if the electricity it uses will eventually come from rotting veg or human poop, but I don’t think their marketing department covered themselves in glory on this occasion.

What is impressive is that it will charge to 80% capacity from a 230v source in 20 minutes.  That’s quicker than my phone…

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