Ant Anstead just loves the Lambo "Con-Torsch" !

[AMG Merc]

Did anyone watch this week's edition of World's Most Expensive Cars on C4 (https://youtu.be/4KNKbxI8WsA) hosted by self professed "passionate car fanatic" Ant Anstead?

The man could not pronounce Countach (https://youtu.be/SUxB8PfE-l4). At least 8 times he coughed up "CON-TORSCH" - It was utterly cringe worthy to listen to him Throughout the show other experts pronounced the name correctly which made Ant Man's faux pas even worse. Accepted, people do pronounce it a little differently to each other but not Con-Torsch!

Hope he wasn't paid too much for his efforts!

...or have we all been saying it wrong since the 70s and Lamborghini "Con-Torsch" is correct

[MitchT]

Ha ha - he actually did that ... and there was me thinking my ears were full of water!

[generationx]

So what is the general consensus on here? I say "Count-ack"

[carl_w]

I always though Coont-ash

[227bhp]

Reminds me of when they got James Martin to do a program on F1, no matter what he does he can't pronounce Formula One, which made for interesting listening.

[dudleybloke]

tash.

[V8covin]

I really can't take to Ant,he's going to be dreadful on Wheeler Dealers,I just know it.
Silly me,it's Whailer Dailers

[Jonesy23]

There are a few ideas of how to pronouncing it depending on whether you're Piedmontese, Italian or something else.

What's certain is that whatever Ant was saying, he's the only person who thinks it was right.

[Phil Dicky]

carl_w said:

I always though Coont-ash

How I always understood it to be pronounced .

[FourWheelDrift]

dudleybloke said:

tash.

[98elise]

Phil Dicky said:

carl_w said:

I always though Coont-ash

How I always understood it to be pronounced .

That sounds right, however I tend to say it more like Count-ash.

[AMG Merc]

That's why I posted the video link above. It may not have linked correctly...

https://youtu.be/SUxB8PfE-l4

[lucido grigio]

I can't even read what Wikipedia has as the correct pronunciation but I always go with

Count ash.

Piedmontese ......kun tats or summat ?

[Jonesy23]

Piedmontese has it as contacc... The 'regular' spelling is an attempt to force the pronunciation in Italian. More like Coon-tack from what I remember.

The regional dialects can be a bit 'interesting' at times and there are a few of them, often nowhere near to being like Italian. Like what they speak around Udine. I knew a lot of people who spoke the local language first and Italian second.

[mybrainhurts]

Phil Dicky said:

carl_w said:

I always though Coont-ash

How I always understood it to be pronounced .

Having heard a Lamborghini bod when the car was current, this is correct.

Here endeth the thread....