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It's just a figure of speech, no need to get worked up over it. :)
I would disagree with your first point though - this is a car that came with no power windows/locks, no ABS, no rear wiper, not even a radio, so IMO "base model" fails to sufficiently describe the lack of options/features. :)
Regardless of whether or not this is how the manufacturer defines the "base model" (something that only someone intimately familiar with the car would know anyway), it clearly has had nearly every possible feature "stripped" from it.
Whether that was due to the features the manufacturer decided to include or delete from their definition of "base model" or whether "standard" features had been deleted, the end result is still a car that has been "stripped" of features.
I use the word "feature" rather than "option" to avoid the arbitrary distinction that is determined essentially by the whim of the manufacturer and its marketing department - in other words, if it's included in the "base model" definition its not technically an "option". In contrast, when I bought my 01 Golf TDI I was forced to swallow a number of features (for example, 4 doors and alloy wheels) that I didn't want because they were included in the base model.
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02-20-2011, 04:09 PM
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