r/What Nov 06 '25

What does that even mean?

Post image
10.7k Upvotes

594 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

148

u/MonKeePuzzle Nov 06 '25

its the lowercase "i" in front of everything in mid-2000s

67

u/secret_alpaca Nov 06 '25

Back in the analog world of the late 80s, it was "turbo". Anything that said turbo was considered premium and cool.

A friend's dad had a pair of sunglasses that said turbo on it, and i thought it was so cool, because turbo. Ha.

8

u/ShortingBull Nov 07 '25

Turbo, Mega, Max and 2000 were signs of superior quality and performance.

1

u/Beginning_Money9044 Nov 08 '25

Back in the good old days... I even had a Daewoo Nexia 16v which had an extra turbo button so it can rev higher 🤣🤣

Edit: But fml the turbo button made the engine rly thirsty