Google is clever

"I'll be in the new VW, you know, the ????"

"What the heck's a… 'tig-one'? 'Tigg-won'? Other than a protein, obviously…" I thought, juggling the phone onto my shoulder so my fingers could skip and dance across their natural arena, the qwertyfloor.

[Ctrl+T] g vw tig1, they instructed Firefox, and Google returned:… Tiguan. A second later, I knew exactly what to look for at the station.

"Yep," I thought, "much faster than asking him to spell it." "Was further proof of our geekhood really needed?" I added.

(Apparently it is so named because it is a combination of tiger and iguana. Seriously.)

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