Anyone else groaned at this billboard advert for the Citroen C5 Tourer?
The "precisely" is the icing on the cake.
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Obviously, it's playing on the current marketing theme for this model ('as precisely built as a German car...'), but someone has made the same mistake as Saab did - 'cubic' litre is a tautology!
S6 1SW
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'cubic' litre is a tautology!
Why don't they say cubic decimetre?
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>'cubic' litre is a tautology! <
Not necessarily - spherical litres look different, and don't pack as tidily in the luggage compartment ...
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I haven't seen the advert., but I would be interested to know how they measure this, and at what temperature the measurement is taken.
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I haven't seen the advert. but I would be interested to know how they measure this and at what temperature the measurement is taken.
Me too. And since they quoted it to 2 places of decimals ( i.e. to the nearest 10 millilitres) they should have gone the whole hog and put a tolerance on it.
Sacre bleu et zut alors!
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"cubic' litre is a tautology!"
If you cube a litre you are into the fourth, fifth and sixth dimensions, really, as a litre is a measurment of space in the usual three dimensions that most mere mortals inhabit.
Trust the French to come up with that. The nation that brought us some magnificent philosophers, and the Citroen DS, so not surprising really.
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"cubic' litre is a tautology!"
Does adding the word precisely "504.98 cubic litres of boot space, precisely " make it an oxymoron, or is there some other precise word to describe this EdBallsUp?
reported here:
www.wikio.co.uk/webinfo?id=69619538
Edited by jbif on 02/09/2008 at 14:55
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It's a bit of a come down then, from its perdecessor the Xantia, that had 618 cubic wotsits.
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Yes, I too am surprised they draw attention to what is probably the C5 Tourers least attractive attributes - it's small boot. Whatever happened to the spacious Citroen estates of yore? Crumbs, some C5 Tourers don't even have proper oil suspension!
Edited by boxsterboy on 02/09/2008 at 16:07
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mm, i'm struggling with this concept too. are we to believe, then, that there are in fact _nine_ spatial dimensions? precisely?!?
they don't have the preferred spelling of "unmistakably", either.
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They obviously measured in cubic feet and then let an idiot do the conversion :-) Imperial rules ok!
JH
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What' the fuss about? 504.98 cubic litres is 889.05 cubic pints, which makes sense to me, here on planet half-wit.
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My Golf V estate has 500 litres - rear seats up - and it's about a foot shorter than the C5. Gives a whole new meaning to 'waste of space'.
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