anyone know for sure

[Jim172CUP]

i was doing a pub quizz on tuesday and one question was what does kompressor mean? as in Mercs.

I thought it was supercharger but the bloke said it ment turbo.

 

[Bryan]

nope, defo supercharger

 

[Gareth]

yep he is wrong!! its defo Supercharger

 

[16V_Matt]

yup supercharger! dont think Mercadies even use turbos.

 

[KDF]

Its deffo Supercharger, I heard it from some reliable sources (bambam, Gaz2130 and 16V_Matt)

 

[weight]

superchargerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

[Mike Wright]

Well translated it simply means
compressor!

Thats the german for kompressor

 

[Faboka]

Supercharger

 

[Roamer]

Yup, it means just that, compressor LoL

 

[Jim172CUP]

I knew i was right, he gave us it anyhoo.

The one i got wrong was whats TVR stand for?

 

[Roamer]

TVR came from the cars creators first name...... TreVoR LoL (seriously)

Mr Trevor Wilkinson

 

[Jim172CUP]

correct a mondo

 

[KDF]

if you know its correct how come you answered the question wrong ?

 

[Jim172CUP]

cuz they give you the answers after each round so you can mark them, god and i thought id drank too much!

And the bloke gave us it right cuz he thought it was turbo, i knew i was right ;o)

 

[KDF]

What er.. its a compressor


(yip that should confuse everyone enough to forget what I said earlier)

 

[BaBOo]

Kompressor=compressor=supercharger=he owe you a beer

 

[Matbrown]

But a turbo also compresss the air.



Mat.

 

[specialK]

but the "whine" is not that of a Turbo on a kompressor merc!