Originally Posted by
DiabloScott
I don't buy it.
If a manufacturer sells two versions of a bike and calls one "Corsa" and the more expensive one "Corsa Pro", I think your explanation falls apart; Pro is short for Professional. You'd have to prove all the manufacturers who use this nomenclature are doing it wrong.
They didn't sell one called "Corsa Pro". They sold one called "Pro Corsa". There's a huge difference.
Also for example we also have the English language versions of Stumpjumper, Stumpjumper Comp, and Stumpjumper Pro, in which "Comp" and "Pro" are clearly distinguishing buzzwords indicating quality/price bumps having nothing to do with intended use.
Read the thread again. Or at least the posts I'm responding to as well as my posts.