{"id":1220894,"date":"2025-02-21T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1220894"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:35:50","slug":"an-episode-of-the-simpsons-fake-speakers-found-in-chinese-volvos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1220894","title":{"rendered":"An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Do you remember <em>The Simpsons<\/em> episode &#8220;Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield&#8221;? It first aired in February 1996, and it&#8217;s the one where Homer and Bart go to Appliance Zone and are confronted with &#8220;genuine&#8221; Panaphonics, Sorny, and Magnetbox TVs. Well, it seems a similar brand name-game has been going on at a Volvo dealership in China.<\/p>\n<p>News <a href=\"https:\/\/auto.ltn.com.tw\/amp\/news\/27671\/3\">started filtering out of China last week<\/a> about an owner of a Volvo S60 sedan who realized the speakers in his car were not from Bowers and Wilkins, as they were supposed to be. Instead, the speakers were branded Bowers and VVilkins<em><strong>,<\/strong><\/em> substituting a pair of Vs for the W. We&#8217;ve seen that &#8220;typosquatting&#8221; approach in malicious emails plenty of times, but it&#8217;s a first in a Volvo.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn&#8217;t the only phony part in the customer&#8217;s S60. He also realized that the crystal transmission knob wasn&#8217;t entirely right either and lacked the genuine article&#8217;s backlighting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/02\/chinese-volvo-customers-report-fake-bw-speakers-in-their-cars\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/02\/chinese-volvo-customers-report-fake-bw-speakers-in-their-cars\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember The Simpsons episode &#8220;Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield&#8221;? It first aired in February 1996, and it&#8217;s the one where Homer and Bart go to Appliance Zone and are confronted with &#8220;genuine&#8221; Panaphonics, Sorny, and Magnetbox &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1220894\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}