{"id":158,"date":"2009-02-07T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-02-07T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:43:16","slug":"how-to-read-a-car-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/how-to-read-a-car-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Read a Car Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like we\u2019ll have to sell our car. Why? To buy a better car. Ours is not bad, but it\u2019s time to upgrade. And besides, I\u2019d rather have a <strong>kombi<\/strong> (wagon) than a 2-door coup\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>So, my guy delegated me to prepare a sale ad. Since I\u2019ve never done it before, in any language, I thought I should take a look at how other people do it.<\/p>\n<p>The first site I visited is the largest car site in Sweden (<strong>Sveriges st\u00f6rsta motorsajt<\/strong>) \u2013 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytbil.se\" target=\"_blank\">bytbil.se<\/a><\/strong>. I clicked on \u201c<strong>personbilar<\/strong>\u201d (passenger cars) and started to read.<\/p>\n<p>First I was asked to select \u201c<strong>m\u00e4rke<\/strong>\u201d (make, such as Audi, BMW, etc\u2026). The next box asked me to select \u201c<strong>modell<\/strong>\u201d (model). So first, you click on make, and then choose the appropriate model. Easy enough.<\/p>\n<p>Next came \u201c<strong>fordonstyp<\/strong>\u201d (kind of vehicle). The choices were many: <strong>sedan, kombi, halvkombi, SUV<\/strong>, etc\u2026 I determined that my car is a <strong>sportkup\u00e9<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong>Drivmedel<\/strong> (fuel) was next. Again, there was a plethora of choices, but the two most popular ones are of course <strong>bensin<\/strong> (petrol) and <strong>diesel<\/strong>. My <strong>sportkup\u00e9<\/strong> runs on <strong>bensin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, what\u2019s next? \u201c<strong>\u00c5r<\/strong>\u201d (year) was self-explanatory. So was \u201c<strong>mil<\/strong>\u201d (mileage). But, one thing to remember about mileage in Sweden \u2013 it\u2019s normally shown in Swedish miles, and <strong>1 Swedish mile = 10 kilometers<\/strong>. So, for my car, the mileage is 11800 Swedish miles. Yes, that\u2019s a lot, but it\u2019s an old car, too.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, we get to the mysterious and oh-so-important \u201c<strong>v\u00e4xell\u00e5da<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 transmission\/gear box.<br \/>\nHere the choices are: \u201c<strong>automatisk<\/strong>\u201d (automatic transmission), \u201c<strong>manuell<\/strong>\u201d (stick shift) and \u201c<strong>sekventiell<\/strong>.\u201d And I had to look this one up on the internet &#8211; it&#8217;s a sequential manual transmission, which I just learned is used mostly in race cars and high-performance vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>My car has <strong>automatisk v\u00e4xell\u00e5da<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, now I think I am ready to write my car ad! Now let&#8217;s hope it sells quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like we\u2019ll have to sell our car. Why? To buy a better car. Ours is not bad, but it\u2019s time to upgrade. And besides, I\u2019d rather have a kombi (wagon) than a 2-door coup\u00e9. So, my guy delegated me to prepare a sale ad. Since I\u2019ve never done it before, in any language&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/how-to-read-a-car-ad\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3088,1992,364865],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-ads","tag-cars","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}