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    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 2:39am

Check out the smug-looking a-hole in this one. Makes me want to be sure not to check out Cargurus.

Also, what's going on with the pronunciation of "Cargurus" from the voice-over?? To me, that name, "Cargurus," is supposed to be a combination of "car" and "gurus." OK, so you would place the accents like this: "CAR-GUrus" or maybe "CAR-gurus." But the voice-over guy says "CAR-guRUs." Maybe he's recording his part from another part of the planet?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 9:19am

^ Kinda like "kangaroo"?

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Originally posted by Thuumb Thuumb wrote:


Check out the smug-looking a-hole in this one. Makes me want to be sure not to check out Cargurus.

Also, what's going on with the pronunciation of "Cargurus" from the voice-over?? To me, that name, "Cargurus," is supposed to be a combination of "car" and "gurus." OK, so you would place the accents like this: "CAR-GUrus" or maybe "CAR-gurus." But the voice-over guy says "CAR-guRUs." Maybe he's recording his part from another part of the planet?

Probably just another typical modern phony hipster dipsh*t affectation.

Like calling pizza 'za'.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 3:54pm

I dunno. I've heard guru pronounced with the accent on "ru".

At least here, it's sung like that:




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jimbo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 4:10pm
You can barely make out the word 'guru' in that.

Sounds like they're just saying 'metal ru'.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 4:22pm

Comes in loud and clear to me.

Ear wax much?

I'm tellin' ya, the looped end of a safety pin does a damn good job.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jimbo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 5:06pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:


Comes in loud and clear to me.

Ear wax much?

I'm tellin' ya, the looped end of a safety pin does a damn good job.


Tablet computers don't have very loud speakers.

I have ear buds but it's a pain in the ass, so I just deal with it.

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cargurus-brother of rybelsus-son of zeus !!

when will this naming crap end?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote HART Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Dec 2020 at 8:56pm
I bring this back because the carguRUs are back 

oh look honey contactless delivery 

how convenient, I guess that saves us from using the Carvanna  car vending machine!




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Yeah, I've heard them come back on, too. Although the smug, smirking a-hole is gone, I now notice the mispronouncing voiceover guy not only emphasizes the wrong syllable of gu-RUs, he pronounces the "s" at the end like the "s" in "loose" (or "caboose" or "moose" or "juice" or "Belarus"). That's not American English.

"Car gu-ROOSE"

They must do this mispronunciation to catch people's ears, so we remember the name. Obviously it works, because it's a thread here on CIH.
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I really hate this guy, why is he even in this commercial?



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love it ! LOL
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Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

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Like calling pizza 'za'.




I had a friend once refer to pizza as "za"

I never saw or spoke to him again LOL
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Originally posted by ThatNerdInPhilly ThatNerdInPhilly wrote:

I really hate this guy, why is he even in this commercial?



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Calling pizza ZA needs to stop now !

killer za bra !
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