Hi Laurie and Dirk (and all ) Personally don't think the "feel" of our old Imperials can be replicated in a modern vehicle, they are just to distinctive - today too many people tend to want to blend in (sheeple - baaaaa!) as to how the word sounds here, it's "Im" with the I having same sound as the word "in" "per" pronounced as in "peer" or "clear" "ial" sounds as "ee-ul" with short u As for me, am quite proud of my flagrantly decadent showing on Lucille's "driving days", ie, when the weather is decent and we make our 75-mile commute - much to the chagrin (and sometimes rage!:>)) of the local PC crowd. PROUD to be an Imperialist! Kate Justet Triplett Kate's Custom Gunleather Monroe, Washington Proudly a member of NRA and owner of "Lucille" 1968 Crown 4 door HT >Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:10:17 -0800 (PST) >Subject: Re: IML: Another Imperial?/graduation project for chrysler/the >>Netherlands >From: "Clint and Laurie Carter" >Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Hi Dirk~ >I'm in the beautiful Pacific Northwest of the USA and I pronounce it as #1. >Other parts of the country may pronounce it differently. >Laurie Carter >'59 Crown aka The Pink Lady ------------ > But how do you Americans pronounce the word > Imperial?? > 1 is it IMPIRIAL > 2 or is it IMPEHRIAL > I think the word is also maybe to foreign sounding for most