jst wonderin 'bout car variants' meaning (glxi, gt,sgx.etc)

**conzky** · January 9th, 2003 02:57 PM

yo! greetings mga peeps ng tsikot.com.
You know there are many car variants and im just wondering about their meaning: like lancer:el, glxi;corolla:xl,xe,gli;nissan:sgx etc, etc.
hope you can stop my wondering.
tnx mga dude!! :lol:

**OTEP** · January 9th, 2003 05:18 PM

conzky,

Most of them have no meanings. They were just made up by the marketing people.

Some used to have meanings:
DX - de luxe
LE - limited edition/luxury edition
SE - sports edition

**theveed** · January 9th, 2003 05:34 PM

Mga german meron... like 318i usually that means 3-series, 1.8liter engine... E220 E-class 2.2 engine, etc..

Pero in most cases, ekek lang yun to make a car sound "higher end"... Sa states uso yung LE/SE for high end... dito naman uso pag may "X" o kaya "S"... usually "R" pag "sporty/racy"... "i" usually injected (not carb)...

Kung ano lang naisipan ng manufacturer... wala naman convention ang mga trim codes eh...

**1D4LV** · January 9th, 2003 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by OTEP

conzky,

Most of them have no meanings. They were just made up by the marketing people.

Some used to have meanings:
DX - de luxe
LE - limited edition/luxury edition
SE - sports edition

add na rin ako:

gt/gti = Grand Turbo/Injection (fuel injected)
xl = eXtra Luxury (daw)
gl = Grand Luxury
glx = Grand Luxury eXtra

di ko nga alam how did they come up with these abbreviations eh. imagine XL na, extra luxury pa... eh aircon lang laman nun eh. walang mags. most of them are pawis steering (yung mga cars during the early and late 80s), etc.

**theveed** · January 9th, 2003 05:52 PM

GT diba Grand Touring?

**HBOY** · January 9th, 2003 06:22 PM

sa MB...
taken from http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/6633/w123models.html

The Mercedes-Benz W123 Models
The models are divided into two main categories here; gasoline driven and diesel driven models. The models are marked by a number and sometimes one or more trailing letter. The number represents the size of the engine in liters (the exception is when a larger engine is installed in the same model at a later date), like the 200 has a 2.0 liter engine and 230 a 2.3 liter engine. The letters have the following meaning (some of them are not used for the W123 model);

S – Sports model
E – Einspritzung (fuel injection)
C – Coupe (two door)
T – Transport und Touristik (station wagon)
L – Lang (long)
SL – Sport Leicht (sport light)

The body has the suffix W and the gasoline engine the suffix M and the diesel engine OM. This represents the following;

W – Wagen (car)
M – Motor (engine)
OM – Öl Motor (oil/diesel engine)

**1D4LV** · January 9th, 2003 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by theveed

GT diba Grand Touring?

yup..sorry. grand touring pala.

**squala** · January 9th, 2003 07:19 PM

Well, such letters do not mean anything. For example, the Civic EX in the US is the same as the VTi here. Car manufacturers just designate their vehicles with any letter, like the Altis. I don't know why they stuck with the incomplete-sounding single letters, and where did the "J" come from.

To entertain myself, I just made some meanings out of the letters of some cars.

Mercedes:

SLK - Spyder Luxury Kompressed
SL - Spyder Luxury
CLK - Coupe Luxury Kompressed
CL - Coupe Luxury
A-Class - Affordable Class
C-Class - Compact Class
E-Class - Executive Class
S-Class - Superior Class
ML-Class - Mountain Luxury Class

Honda:

ESi - Extra Special injection
VTi - Variable Timing injection
SiR - Super injected Racer

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

**ephraim** · January 9th, 2003 07:23 PM

paano yung endeavor XT pati GL?
XT- eXtra Torque?
GL- Good Looking?

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

**FerioEG9Boi** · January 10th, 2003 06:15 AM

Here are some of the variants i know. Sorry pang honda lang alam ko eh
Local Civic Models
VTi
LXi
ESi - Economy Sports Injection (ata)
SiR - Sports Injection Race
RS - Racing Sedan

Japan Civics
Ferio - means Four door
SiR
VTi
ETi
MX
EL
ETSi (4WD na Civic)