Octavia or Octarvia?

[jbviajero]

In our house we just call it the Skoda and leave it at that.

[Gti Dave]

LOL. at our house we either call it the Skoda or "the yellow one"

[VRS-Vic]

I refer to my RS as "The Boss"

Coming from a Czech background myself, I would say it's pronounced "Ok-tah-veeya"

[dArK5HaD0w]

LOL. at our house we either call it the Skoda or "the yellow one"

lol, same here.
sometimes we use "bumble bee"
glad it doesn't sting....but i wish it did "transform"

[MarksVRS]

I think it is acceptable to have different accents. I prefer Oc-tay-via myself.

What about Nissan (Nissun vs. Neeeesahn)

[Gti Dave]

I think it is acceptable to have different accents. I prefer Oc-tay-via myself.

What about Nissan (Nissun vs. Neeeesahn)

Yeah just like pronouncing Porsche as either porsh or as some like to pronounce it as porshar.

[bobski]

I'm from western sydney. I say it with as broad an aussie drawl as I can muster OCTAYYYVIYYYA

[RSOK]

Well how's this, I got laughed at several months ago for calling it by it's correct (read: Czech/European) pronunciation, that is to say Oc-tah-via... my mate laughed and basically called me out for sonding 'posh'... when I told him that was the correct pronunciaton he wouldn't have a bar of it.... of course here in Oz we're bound to, as Bobski would say, use our great Australian drawl and pronounce it to be the Oc-taaaaay-via and if so then it ain't no biggie really, we know what we mean.

[Gti Dave]

lol, same here.
sometimes we use "bumble bee"
glad it doesn't sting....but i wish it did "transform"

Ha Ha...yeah that's what I've been calling it since watching transformers last week. I used to call it the taxi since everyone else's been giving me flack about it.