"Wir leben Autos"

[Exploder]

Does the motto really make sense? Wouldn't it be more proper for it to be "Wir leben für Autos" or "Wir sind lebendig Autos"?

[Johnny_Buchanan]

Nah, I reckon my old german teacher would smack my head for trying to serve him something similar (might be wrong of course. After all I did get a very shaky B from him), however, what really gets me is the Gunther voice that is used for uttering that phrase.

-J

[The Other Guy]

Reminds me a little of "Ich fahre ein Trabant", which isn't such a good thing.

[Toto]

Does the motto really make sense? Wouldn't it be more proper for it to be "Wir leben für Autos" or "Wir sind lebendig Autos"?

Yes, Wir leben Autos make sense. In this short phrase leben stand for the passion to make cars. Add the word für and the passion is gone.

Wir sind lebendig(e) Autos, only a transformer can say that.

[njtex]

If the Euro bailout doesn't work out, at least it will be easy to change the tagline to: "Wir müssen in unseren Autos jetzt leben"!

[Exploder]

Ah, mystery solved by looking up an old thread. So it's a play on "Wir lieben Autos". And actually "We live and breathe cars" does make sense to me now.