Bad product naming they haven't realized yet - the Volkswagen ID.Buzz

[gunhilltrain]

See, I heard it was becoming X because he wanted to name the company after his wife. Do you have a source for that?

You're kidding us, I guess? Do you have a source for that? He's had two wives and one "partner," but all are of them are out of his daily life now.

He did start X.com in 1999, but he merged it into another company to form PayPal.

 

[MrPixel]

Musk is apparently fascinated by 'X'. I was reading an article just this morning (can't find it now!) about 'X' being a constant* ever since his PayPal days, and he continued to hold the x.com domain.

One article mentioned that 'tweets' will be renamed 'Xs'. I don't think so. I think they'll be called "spurts" by everyone else. You know, the old joke about "X-spurts"? (You heard it here first, folks.) Anyway, his branding everything 'X' is soon to be a quite a joke along the lines of Microsoft supposedly copyrighting/patenting '1s' and '0s'.

* - For the math/science denizens among us... 'X' is never a constant. 'X' represents a variable. I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your server.

 

[Cindy027]

Not a big deal to me, Americans will probably rename it anyway to suite their market.

Everybody knows, microbus, or as we call them in this country "Kombi."

I have heard them being called Kombi, we used to call them Folkabuss.