How do you say 348?

Zed or zero? petrol or gas? bonnet or hood?

It must be a western hemisphere thing, I suspect. Three-Forty-Eight is what I called mine.

 

Yes.

 

So, I assume you say tri styri osem (sorry, I just know it in Slovak)?

 

I say "three-four-eight".*

* Always said with face lightening up expectantly, love-sick eyes gazing off into middle distance, and goofy grin stretching my mouth to my ears.​

All the best,
Andrew.

 

As do I.... but I don't get the goofy grin until I start my Three Five Five.



Mike

 

Yeah, I say three-four-eight just like I say three-five-five.

Sometimes I do say three-fourty-eight and three-fifty-five, however...

 

In Italy, at the factory, according to Joe at Cauley Ferrari, they say "Three Four And Eight".

 

I heard that LDM banned the use of the word in Italy.....sorry I could not resist.

 

LOL!

 

Same here

 

I've only ever heard it called the three forty eight, three fifty five. There is also the three oh eight and the three twenty eight. Interesting. I'm in the south but grew up in California. Three sixty, four thirty, four fifty eight. Personally I drive a Mondial three point two so I'm safe.

 

I use both.

Is a Porsche 911 a Nine Eleven or a Nine One One?

 

I used to always say three-fourty-eight and three-fifty-five, but I've found that after watching Top Gear UK more and more...that's starting to change to three-four-eight and three-five-five.

To answer your question, yes, it's just one more of those little cross-pond idiosyncrasies.

 

+1

It must only apply to the 3 forty-eight, the 3 fifty-five, 2 eighty-eight, 6 twelve, 2 fifty, 3 sixty, 5 seventy-five and 5 fifty, 4 fifty-eight (although I do catch myself saying 4 five eight).... Do you see a pattern? "Westerners" pronounce most cars (particularly Ferraris) with the first digit as a single designation and the last two as a double digit. In the case of the 308, I find most people pronounce it as "three-oh-eight."

No matter. Enjoy the ride!

 

Translation from french...three-fourty-eight !
Everybody calls the 348 like this.....

 

Three forty-eight

 

I call mine a piece of junk.

But to answer your question directly, it's an American thing, I call it a three forty eight.

 

I at 3 forty eight but I noticed the people from Europe tend to say three four eight

 

Ha ha ha, un piece de merd, avec beaucoup de problems. Although a 100 mile drive up and down Pacific Highway would make you forget any of that problem. Plus if you stop tinkering around with it, and remove that non-original red paint airbox, maybe it will cooperate.

 

Just make sure you don't put a darn "F" in front of it like all the 360 guys like to do (F360? Sounds like a special 3/4 ton Ford truck).

308
328
348
F355
360 Modena
F430
458 Italia

 

Once I was in Germany and they referred to the Porsche as the Ninety-One One.

 

Me too.. exactly... far less the latter.