How do you say Porsche?

Do you guys say it the european way "PorschA" Or the American way "Porsh" I usually pronounce Porsche the American way but sometimes the European way. How about you guys?

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85.5 Porsche 944

The correct pronunciation is por-sha.

When i talk to someone that calls a porsche a "por-sha" I make sure to thank them for calling the car its actual name.

911

I try to say "Por-sha", too...

...but what about these:
Ferrari "Testa-raw-sa" vs. "Testa-row-sa"
Fiat "Ber-toe-nay" vs. "Ber-tone"
Lambo "Coon-tash" vs. "Coon-tach"

And what's the right way to say "Panoz"?



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'71 911E with Webers
Golden Gate Region PCA

I believe it's "PorschA" to be correct. In the UK people say a mixture of both "Porsh" and "PorschA". We need a German person to be definative! Also, a German friend of mine laughed when I said BMW, she said it's pronounced "BMV", which would figure, but you don't hear people saying that....She also pronounced Mercedes very different too!

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'75 911S Targa
'81 BMW Alpina C1 2.3
http://member.aol.com/asaffery/my911s.html

Another good one is, how do you say RUF?

I experienced meeting Peter Por-sha and his wife at the 1971 Parade. Far as I'm concerned? How they pronounced their name is proper. It's Por-sha in our accent. 'Nuff said? Or, is it smith or smyth, or schmidt? Not everybody has their name the same as a car. But we all say Ford correctly, don't we? To me, it's a respect for the family thing.

Originally posted by RaF944:
. . . Or the American way "Porsh. . .

the American way ? I though "Porsh" was the Mr.T way of saying Porsche.
Possers say porsh. Any one who has any respect for the Porsche clan who brought us this superior engineering will say Porsche.
. . .911 works well too.

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'81 Platinum Metalic SC Coupe

I pronounce "RUF" like "roof" but with sort of a cheesy Hollywood German accent...

Hmmmmm I guess i am a Poser then.......

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85.5 Porsche 944

Porch.

(Panoz is pronounced "pay-nose").

porsche with an A.

OK, RUF is 'roof', Porsche is 'por-sha', but I thought BMW was pronounced 'Be-eM-dublu-ve', anybody wanna clear it up?
Ahmet

Fuchs...is it FOOKS or FU_CKS? (Sorry-I had to ask.)

[This message has been edited by ClayMcguill (edited 05-17-2001).]

I've also heard "fewkes"...

I think its fooks... I am confused... I call RUF "Ruff" like that sandpaper is ruff..... I call Porsche both PorschA and Porsh....I used to call Fuchs Few-Shas....Kind of like the Color fusha.... So whatever ...from now on I will get in the habit of saying PorschA

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85.5 Porsche 944

Or..I once knew a lumber mill owner who bought a Maserati (sp?) Ghilbi. Being a young whippersnapper, a friend of this man's son, I thought I "corrected" him when he did what I thought was a mispronunciation of the name. His response, may God bless his soul; "Paul, I paid cash for that car, I'll call it whatever I feel like." Who can argue with that? I didn't.

BMW is really pronounced bE-M-VU or at least thats how they say it in Poland...which is basically the same as most neighboring countries

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85.5 Porsche 944

Someone with a German friend, get them to say this sentence: "A RUF PORSCHE with polished FUCHS beats a BMW anyday". Let us know...

I say Pors-scha when I'm talking with people who give a damn. Porsch when talking to people who don't know any better (should I really be talking to them?) BMW is pronounced BMV because the letter W is prounounced like a "V" in German. When my parents bought a used Mercedes the German seller (sly bugger) pronounced it Mer-see-das. I'm not sure about that. I know it's not how we usually say it..I think I'll ask my German professor. As for RUF? I believe the correct pronounciation is ROOF. Like the stuff on top of your house.

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Jeff
1976 911S