The Anatomy of a Car’s Name

Read it online on Autonet.ca.

Favourite line:

“Trim” is another word for features, finishings and options. To say a vehicle is “fully loaded” is to say the car has the highest trim level.

Piece together a vehicle’s name like this: 

All-new > Year > Root Name > Size > Engine > Trim > Drivetrain 

All-new 2013 Santa Fe XL 3.3L GDI V6 Limited AWD

I used morphology, ha!

Morphology – the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a language’s linguistics units.

Linguistics class paid off.  For the first time. Ever.

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Off to California with Hyundai

I’m flying out early Monday morning to San Diego, to test Hyundai’s all-new 7-seater Santa Fe.

Remember I had a Santa Fe a couple weeks ago? It was to give myself a benchmark.

That’s their 2 rows-of-seats SUV, which AJAC awarded the best of the year (one of the higest honours in Canada).

No screen, nice.

They’ve extended the length, and added in another row of seats to make it a 7-passenger people mover, and with Hyundai’s only V6 SUV engine.

I’ll be staying beneath that red roof, and will hopefully get to drive across that awesome bridge.

I land mid-afternoon, and then will be 3 hours behind you.

Hope your week gets off to a strong start, TTYS!

xo Keri

 

UPDATE: Got to drive over the bridge.