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Motor Mondays: ​Volkswagen Passat runs swift like its namesake

Volkswagen scores when it comes to the name game. Most people know Volkswagen means the people’s car. But did you know Passat stands for trade wind, or that it’s also the name of a historic German windjammer that now serves as a museum, meeting venue and hostel on the Baltic Sea port of Lubeck? Jetta means jet stream in German and Golf, refers not to the popular passtime but gulf as in gulf stream.

 

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