Originally Posted by mineistaken

Reminds me - once in the US some dude asked me what car do I drive. At that time I had a bmw, I said: bee em vee. He had no idea wtf was that. I repeated few times more and maybe after 60 seconds he - ah, bee em double yoo.

Now I am thinking was he pretty dumb or people actually would not understand what a bee em vee means when talking about cars?