Motoring abreviations, the more obscure the better

Motoring abreviations, the more obscure the better

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Stick Legs

4,952 posts

166 months

Saturday 6th April 2013
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Very old now from Autotrader in the early 90's:
RSB
FFS
EHRW

Reclining Seat Backs
Factory Fitted Sunroof (from the days of pop outs!) not For Fu** Sake!
Electric Heated Rear Window

All that jazz

7,632 posts

147 months

Saturday 6th April 2013
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Stick Legs said:
Very old now from Autotrader in the early 90's:
RSB
FFS
EHRW

Reclining Seat Backs
Factory Fitted Sunroof (from the days of pop outs!) not For Fu** Sake!
Electric Heated Rear Window
RSB is rear selt belts, not reclining seat backs! hehe You missed off another 90s one - RWW = rear wash wipe.

real4star

7,032 posts

138 months

Saturday 6th April 2013
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Another Land Rover one

FWH = Free Wheeling Hubs

Miglia 888

1,002 posts

148 months

Saturday 6th April 2013
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FIRE - Fully Integrated Robotised Engine (Fiat)

VTEC - Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (Honda)
VVT-i - Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (Toyota)
VANOS - VAriable NOckenwellenSteuerung (BMW)
MIVEC - Mitsubishi Innovative Valve timing Electronic Control system

VDC - Vehicle Dynamic Control (Alfa, Fiat, Nissan, Infiniti, Subaru)
VDIM - Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management - (Toyota, Lexus)
IVD - Interactive Vehicle Dynamics (Ford)
CST - Controllo Stabilità (Ferrari)
MSP - Maserati Stability Program

Riff Raff

5,128 posts

196 months

Saturday 6th April 2013
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My Mazda has i-eloop. They've just done a factory recall on it to prevent it potentially setting the passenger seat on fire eek

Visionist

120 posts

151 months

Saturday 6th April 2013
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DCIB - Dual Cam In Block (seen on a GM concept 24v V8 pushrod in 2001)

FORD - Found On Roadside Dead

CHEVROLET - Cheap Hardly Effective Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time

mdm1uk

1,344 posts

149 months

Sunday 7th April 2013
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Toyota BEAMS engine
Breakthrough
Engine
Advanced
Mechanism
System
Only in Japan. Actually maybe not i think many posters above have proved that manufactures from all countries are just as bad.