A month in from the arrival of our top-of-the-range Kuga and it's settling in nicely on the driveway. In fact, the only difficulty we seem to be having is the way that friends and family pronounce the name. Apart from the car nuts amongst us, virtually everyone pronounces the Vignale name wrong, which could be a problem for Ford's poshest sub-brand. After all, if the punters can't say it, how do you expect them to buy it? The most common way of saying it is Vig-Nail, whereas it should be pronounced Vin-Ya-Lee, all in a vaguely Gino D'Acampo-esque Italian accent, of course.
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