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Volvo Olympian 2 axles vehicles are not "hotdogs"!

• SMB355L

  14 Feb 13, 18:14

  There's been the inaccurate nicknaming the retiring SBST Volvo Olympian 2 axles as "hotdogs", the term that has its deep roots from Hong Kong rather than Singapore.
  
  Here's a question - what about the old SBS & TIBS non-aircon buses, are they known as "hotdogs"?
  
  Maybe to some calling them "NAC/non-airconditioned" is supposedly mainstream, but this NAC terming is part of our transport heritage that's uniquely Singapore. The VO2X vehicles is known as "NAC double decker bus" Hoping that the future SG transport heritage don't get corrupted by random fan-term naming just because a term from somewhere else became popular.

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• carbikebus

  14 Feb 13, 18:58

  Then call it Hot Con.

• SMB66X

  14 Feb 13, 19:01

  How inaccurate is that? I don't see any wrong in that. 

  NAC yes it's part of the transport heritage, but will anyone give a damn? 

  Further more, why is the group talking about this out of a sudden? Nothing better to post? If you ask people to choose, they would prefer hotdog than the word NAC. 

• dan474

  14 Feb 13, 20:50

  inb4lock

  anyway who the hell coined the term "superlion" for gemilang A22s?

• SMB128B

  14 Feb 13, 21:52

  I would have been interested in this until I read the last line. 

• SMB145B

  14 Feb 13, 22:11

  the last tine turns me off ...

• Apalis56

  14 Feb 13, 23:19

  "Hotdogs" is an informal term to describe non-airconditioned buses. Do you need to address buses formally everytime?

  Why can't we just dub the NACs as "Hotdogs"..... rather than making yourself sound like a nerd by calling them "Volvo Olympian 2-Axle" or "VO2x"?

• TIB 501 D

  15 Feb 13, 16:35

  This user is a clone created by SMB228X, inb4lock...