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View Poll Results: How do you say the name of this car?
"One-Thirty-Five-i" 102 66.23%
"One-Three-Five-i" 47 30.52%
I don't - the car holds such power over me that, like Lord Voldemort, I dare not speak its name 5 3.25%
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      10-18-2011, 07:08 AM   #1
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"One-Three-Five" or "One-Thirty-Five"?

I've always called my car a "one-thirty-five-i". I'd never heard it called a "one-three-five-i" until I saw people referring to it that way in another thread here (T-shirt thread). And some of them say they've never heard it pronounced my way. So I'm curious - what do you call it?

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      10-18-2011, 07:25 AM   #2
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I've always called my car a "one-thirty-five-i". I'd never heard it called a "one-three-five-i" until I saw people referring to it that way in another thread here (T-shirt thread). And some of them say they've never heard it pronounced my way. So I'm curious - what do you call it?

And, BTW - your vote will be public, so we can ridicule you if we don't like your answer.
I've always called it one-thirty-five-I. It just sounds more natural to me. Maybe I watch too much YouTube and hang out at my local dealership more than I should. Just like I couldn't call it a "three-three-five-I" lol. It just sounds like a train wreck falling out of the mouth when I say it like that. To each their own.
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      10-18-2011, 08:17 AM   #3
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      10-18-2011, 08:23 AM   #4
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I may be wrong but I think the Brits tend to spell it out number by number.

Case in point:

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Ditto on the one thirty five. Actually never heard anyone say one three five until reading a T-shirt post recently.

To each their own..
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      10-18-2011, 08:35 AM   #6
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Yeah it seems the Brits call out each number and here in the US we call out series number followed by a double digit number.
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you are all wrong. its "one-hundred-and-thirtyfive-i" lol
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I reckon "One Thirty Five" is an American thing. In both the UK and Oz I've only every heard "One Three Five", "Three Three Five" etc...
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you are all wrong. its "one-hundred-and-thirtyfive-i" lol
didnt you pass gradeschool.

Thats a complex number. the 1er is simple, fast and the rest of it. Therefore you need to drop the "i"

#mathhumor
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      10-18-2011, 10:06 AM   #13
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didnt you pass gradeschool.

Thats a complex number. the 1er is simple, fast and the rest of it. Therefore you need to drop the "i"

#mathhumor
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didnt you pass gradeschool.

Thats a complex number. the 1er is simple, fast and the rest of it. Therefore you need to drop the "i"

#mathhumor
We Engineers use i to represent electrical current as a function of time and therefore use j to denote an imaginary/complex number

#nerdhumor

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We Engineers use i to represent electrical current as a function of time and therefore use j to denote an imaginary/complex number

#nerdhumor

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We Engineers use i to represent electrical current as a function of time and therefore use j to denote an imaginary/complex number

#nerdhumor

Speak for yourself. But in using the Navia Stokes equations to resolve aerodynamic effects we, better than electrical engineering types here, use "i" as a complex, imaginary, number that occasionally pops out of those, only you weird people with your i is current thinggy are different

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I call her Felony.

The e46 is Miss Demeanor.

Failing that, I call it the 1-series, the 1, or the 1 thirty-five.
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Eine, drei, funf. Then again, I just got back from Germany so it's tough reverting to speaking in English :P
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