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[โ€“] officermike@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm perfectly fine identifying cars that have proper names, but the mid-luxury brands (BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti, etc.) eschew names for alphanumeric gibberish. I can't be arsed to remember all their numbering schemes. And Teslas largely look the same to me unless they look distinctly like a dumpster. I can't tell an S from a 3, or a Y from an X.

Yeah like you can tell the rough number on a BMW 1 or 3 or 5. But the actual meaning of E46 3 220d is beyond me.