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04:22 Nov 27, 2008 

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I didn't make my decision based on GOOGLE SATISTICS, I did READ the contents of the website and compare both terms to see which term is more COMMONLY USED. When you look into the websites of some Car Rental Companies above, you understand clearly that 代用车 is a car borrowed from the car company when your own car is under maintenance.

While I checked 借用车in the websites on the link your provided, I didn't get this meaning . It simply means the car is borrowed from someone else, maybe from a friend or whoever else. That's why I found 代用车 is much more convincing in this case.

03:34 Nov 27, 2008 

对租赁双方来说，这代用车其实就是借用车......谁都知道这代用车不可能是免费赠送的??

03:29 Nov 27, 2008 

For your further information, if we had "alternate/substitutional vehicle", we would translate to "代用車"... ...and alternate transportation-->替代交通方式......Hope you have a better arrangement:-)

03:25 Nov 27, 2008 

对租赁双方来说，这代用车其实就是借用车。谁都知道这代用车不可能是免费赠送的，而是暂时借给用户使用的。所以，我觉得使用“代用车”并不觉得有什么不对。

03:12 Nov 27, 2008 

I spend so much time not for points but only to help with our translation quality and make everything to its clearest...

03:11 Nov 27, 2008 

Please take a second thorough consideration and you will know the delicate reason. We should not counter on the the statistics data on GOOGLE, especially for us Chinese native speakers! Hope my recommendation can help you enough Wai-yin!

03:09 Nov 27, 2008 

So, first thank you for your further information. Since these two items are in a unique list, they should not be overlapped by the coverage, that's for sure! And as I have mentioned, 借用或租賃車輛都可用作代用車, the translation of 代用車 here will sure make confusions.

03:02 Nov 27, 2008 

This is the question:

(IF AGREE TO TRANSPORTATION): What type of alternate transportation did you receive?
 Not required (waited at dealership until promised work was completed)
 Courtesy shuttle
 Rental vehicle
 Loaner vehicle
 Audi Loaner vehicle
 Other
 Don’t know

Actually I googled both answers and realised that 代用车 is more commonly used as a "term", I know both of them work and I don't disagree with 借用車 (That's originally what I translated as well) but then, I decided to adopt a more common term.

02:53 Nov 27, 2008 

不否認“代用车”是詞典上的說法，但代用车在這兒與“租賃車輛”作爲並列選項，肯定沒有與“借用車”要來得合情合理。我們翻譯不能迷戀詞典，並且“loaner：借用物（例如汽车等在修理时承修厂商暂时借给顾客代用的汽车等）”，Loaner Vehicle在這兒解釋爲“借用車”順理成章。另外，借用或租賃車輛都可用作代用車，個中邏輯，思則自明。建議把原英文貼出來討論。

02:52 Nov 27, 2008 

不否認“代用车”是詞典上的說法，但代用车在這兒與“租賃車輛”作爲並列選項，肯定沒有與“借用車”要來得合情合理。我們翻譯不能迷戀詞典，並且“loaner：借用物（例如汽车等在修理时承修厂商暂时借给顾客代用的汽车等）”，Loaner Vehicle在這兒解釋爲“借用車”順理成章。建議把原英文貼出來討論。