In an arguement about how to say Baja (as in Baja Bug). Is it said how its spelt like baa-jaaa or is it said baa-haaa?
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It is pronounced Ba-ha. Slap anyone up the side of the head who says it differently. And tell them to look up Baja in Mexico to see where they got their name from.
Smiley
If you said I was a Volkswagen man, you'd be right.
it is definitely baha
Yogie
Hahahah ill have to slap my self then smileyman😂
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Hiya Ryan,
It's baa-ha.
In Spanish baja means (roughly) under or lower than. So, Baja California is Under California and that makes sense when you look at the map. Of course, the term Baja as it's used with cars comes from the overland races held in Baja California.
Mike
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Rather ironic really considering a Baja Bug is over or higher than a normal bug.......
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But under or lower than a normal off road car.
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That depends.... I've seen some baja bugs that make 4wds look small...... 😂
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ryana89 wrote:In an arguement about how to say Baja (as in Baja Bug). Is it said how its spelt like baa-jaaa or is it said baa-haaa?
thanks😂
"lame - ha"
just like a stock strut super bug in the dirt hey?
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colonel mustard, i'm pretty sure one of the 10 comandments is "thou shall not criticise or speak of a VW car/part in a negative way"🙅
Ryan😂
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Bookwus wrote:Hiya Ryan,
It's baa-ha.
In Spanish baja means (roughly) under or lower than. So, Baja California is Under California and that makes sense when you look at the map. Of course, the term Baja as it's used with cars comes from the overland races held in Baja California.
Hi Mike,
I have never heard it called Bar Har in Australia...
always Bar Jar or occasionally Badger... [yikes]
No Spanish spoken over here.. lol
and no one has been to BAJA in California...
where the Off Road Races were held....
and don;'t know
it has nothing to do with the height of a car... lol
I suppose they will continue to be called a Bar Jar in the Australian language ...😊
😊😊😊
cheers
LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
Deffo pronounced Baa Haa
Same as Fajita isn't pronounced "Faa Gee Taa" (another Mexican word) but "Faa Hee Taa" instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajita
I rest my case... lol
I always been calling it bar jar lol.
Baha sounds more fun :P its like naming a car after a slurred lound laugh... lol
Bahahahahhaa❗
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I always call it Ba-ha, and so does everyone else I know. The only people I hear call it bar-jar are bogans who don't know any better 🙂
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ohhh ouch! 🤓
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New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
Baja Wes wrote:The only people I hear call it bar-jar are bogans who don't know any better 🙂
What is worse though is when they are told the correct way to say it, they still don't make the effort.
Yogie
I'm making the 'effort' to say it right now😂😂
Ryan😁
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Baja - Bar jar🤪👍
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hahaha.
its a mad world :P
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Ba Ha . nothin else would be right.
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Oh! Is that so Lee? No-ones been to Baja (pronounced Baha).
So I didn't go to Valley Centre in SoCal and stay with Bruce and Winnie Meyers for a few days in 1998, then I didn't go down into Baja California with the Manx Dune Buggy Club, then I didn't spend some time at Mike's Sky Ranch on the way to Margaritaville, where I didn't stay at Pete's Camp on the beach, where I didn't get to drive a Tow'd which didn't have a Corvair engine in it and then I didn't get to visit Lake Hanson on the way home from "Wasting Away in Margaritaville".
Hmmm? I wonder what I was doing at that time?
Maybe I then didn't buy a Manx SR and then ship it home.
Hmmm! I wonder where I did get it from.
It's all a great mystery to me.
ryana89 wrote:colonel mustard, i'm pretty sure one of the 10 comandments is "thou shall not criticise or speak of a VW car/part in a negative way"🙅
Ryan😂
pretty sure.... no.
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squizy wrote:Juan, Jose, and Jesus are turning in their graves at the moment.
Yea...
Cause half the guys here really need to learn to keep their pants on...
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New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
I must say, when I was a yoiung bloke and the first DB&HVWs magazine came out, I read about 'baja' bugs and wondered how it was spelt. I had read where the name came freom (the Baja desert where they were first developed), and for quite a few years, I pronounced it either 'Baja' or 'Baajaa' . I later saw a doco on TV about the Baja Pensinular and the Baja desert, and I finally heard it pronounced 'Baahaa'. Ever since then, I have always pronounced it that way.
From your ole' mate Jeff
Hi
And while we're talking about pronunciation. Bathurst is pronounced Bath urst, not Bath hirst like most Mexicans say it, but they cant even say where the F1 race is held in Melbourne properly, the say Elbert Park, not Albert Park and Alvis Presley.
Steve
OK...
My Humble apologies...
Someone has been to Baja California ...
just no one I know...
cheers
LEE
PS: Should have said IMHO - In My Humble opinion...
in which case i was wrong...
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I call my car all sorts of things....
oont baba. "oont" being cause its german, "baba" because thats what the old lady at work calls it.
Shitebox. When it breaks.
Good lookin. when its clean.
tough. when its covered in mud.
A drag car. when i put my little wheels on it and take it to warwick.
my wife has a whole list of other names for it but they are all kinda offensive 😁
Generally i just call it my Baja, pronounced "BA-HA"
Some people who drove them in the 70's call them "choppers" too.
Mick
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Todo este apuro cerca de una poca palabra. En español nosotros no dice el sonido de J como usted hace en inglés. Pronunciamos J como usted el prounce H. Todas nuestras vocales tienen solamente sonidos cortos, así que una A se pronuncia siempre como AAH. Eso significa que BAJA es BAA-HAA pronunciado.
Mike
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