New Times, New Language?

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There were electric cars as early as 1838, but we've become so used to internal combustion cars that they've affected our language. We're all familiar with phrases like "I'm outta gas", "hit the gas", "running on fumes". Is it time for us to coin new and more appropriate sayings? Food for thought.

http://1revorg.org/mini.html
 
revorg said:
There were electric cars as early as 1838, but we've become so used to internal combustion cars that they've affected our language. We're all familiar with phrases like "I'm outta gas", "hit the gas", "running on fumes". Is it time for us to coin new and more appropriate sayings? Food for thought.

http://1revorg.org/mini.html
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I wish your website had been around in 2019 when I was googling every day for news of the electric MINI. Because MINI decided to call both their hybrid and fully-electric cars "SE," I was often frustrated.

I, too, have a website, however, it's nothing but a 10-second slide show objecting to the MINI Cooper SE having a hood scoop (I deleted the hood scoop from my SE).
 
"Full tank" doesn't make sense for battery-based cars.

Which brings to mind the famous Blues Brothers scene:

 
insightman said:
I wish your website had been around in 2019 when I was googling every day for news of the electric MINI. Because MINI decided to call both their hybrid and fully-electric cars "SE," I was often frustrated.

I, too, have a website, however, it's nothing but a 10-second slide show objecting to the MINI Cooper SE having a hood scoop (I deleted the hood scoop from my SE).
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@insightman, I am shocked, SHOCKED! to learn that your website is devoted to protesting the MINI Cooper SE’s spurious hood scoop! :D
 
wessy said:
@insightman, I am shocked, SHOCKED! to learn that your website is devoted to protesting the MINI Cooper SE’s spurious hood scoop! :D
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As my slide-show demonstrates, when the designers were in charge, the MINI-E, the MINI Electric concept car drawings, the MINI Electric concept car, and the pre-production prototype for the MINI Cooper SE all have non-skeuomorphic hoods. When I asked the head designer about the scoop, he inferred it was marketing who decided to retain the fake hood scoop from the MINI Cooper S.

I don't begrudge SE owners who like the looks of their cars, I just wanted the option to delete the only ICE-specific, non-functional ornament from my SE. The factory allows customers to delete the sunroof for no rebate but wouldn't accept my offer of $2,500 to get the less-expensive, scoopless base MINI Cooper hood. I've never modified any of my new cars until I got my SE. A week after it was delivered it went to the body shop and now it's perfect IMO. It's not difficult to get me ranting (with a smile, knowing how I'm almost alone in my rejection of a hood scoop on an electric car).
 
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