Does anyone find it strange that,,,

[KMAX]

9mm bigger than a Glock 22?

Glock 22 has given me some problems in conversation. A guy I was talking to wanted to buy a pistol. I told him about a friend that had a Glock 22 to sell. The guy said he wanted something bigger, at least a 9mm. I have since gotten into the habit of throwing in the word "model" when there might be confusion.

 

[DaleA]

Since we are kind of headed in this direction I'll repost the following:

Jimbob86 posted a link to a 'Who's on first' parody about a .22 caliber Glock (Model 40) a while ago. IMhO it was hilarious. The following link will take you to it but you have to scroll down about a page to get to the gag with Caleb and Tam discussing the 'new' Glock model.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15907727&postID=8674651315885898628&isPopup=true&bpli=1

 

[SPEMack618]

My biggest gripe with S&W naming conventions is how they are slapping "M&P" on EVERYTHING now.

Grrrrr.

I refuse to call a polymer DAO double stack pistol an "M&P"

 

[DaleA]

how they are slapping "M&P" on EVERYTHING now.

Yeah. I agree.

I got upset when the car companies jacked up the model nameplate and slid a whole 'nother car under it. The 'Malibu' might be the latest.

Marketing folk must think we're idiots.

 

[carguychris]

^^^^ This is a marketing trend known as "branding". It's been going on for about 15 years now. The idea is to deemphasize the model name in order to accentuate the brand.

Re: cars, my favorite examples are the retirement of model names by Mazda and Cadillac in favor of more generic-sounding alphanumeric designations (i.e. 3 and CX-5 rather than Protege and Tribute, CTS and DTS rather than Seville and DeVille), and particularly the recent and extreme move by Infinity to rename all of their models as Q-something rather than designating different lines with different alphabetical prefixes.

 

[SPEMack618]

Kinda like how the Silverado became the Cheverolet pickup line after being a package of the old C-10 series trucks?