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These are the answers to the most basic of automotive questions I asked my friends.
Question 1 : Name 3 car brands.
Best LOL answer: Mustang, Toyota, BMW.
Thoughts: Most struggled to give 2 answers.
Question 2 : What is a sedan?
Best LOL answer: A type Honda?
Thoughts: Technically right. The common answer was, “A type of car”.
Question 3 : (Showing them a Mercedes Benz logo) What brand is this?
Best LOL Answer: Ford.
Thoughts: “Peace sign” was the common answer. 2 of them did answer correctly.
Last Question: (Showing them a picture of a Viper) What car is this?
Best LOL Answer: A Bugatti or Maserati, wait, they are the same thing right?
Thoughts: Flattered :) One of my friends answered, “the car Paul Walker died in on FF 6”.
I’ll try to teach them a little more of what I know so they don’t end up like the pic below lol :)
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Kia is going to dominate.
Or maybe you ask someone what this is and they say “TOYOTA!” and that’s when you punch them.
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I keep hearing from my “friends” that there must be a BMW M8 and Audi A9 coming out soon. And some consider Mansory cars as sexy. I want to punch them every time they say bullshit like that.
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I did ask them what they want to drive and regular cars were not the answers gives. Convertibles and sports cars are still a top choice.
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This thread demands a freak gasoline fight gif.
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You’re doing God’s work. Teach them all little by little and they may grow up to be proper jalops.
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Interesting when you compare the dream cars of normal people and car people.
Normal people: Ferrari! Lamborghini! Maserati!
Car people: Ford! Toyota! Nissan! Chevy!
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If only they knew what a sports car was!
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Hahaha, thats hilarious! But sad.
I think most peoples knowledge of cars ends at color.
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Oh a KIA, killed in action right lol.
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When I first met my wife we had many conversations that went like this:
Her: “I saw a cool car on the way to school”
Me: “Oh yeah, what was it?”
Her: “Um...it was red.”
Me: “Um...but what was it?”
Her: “I don’t know it was red and cool”
Me: “Well, what did it look like...sedan/coupe/convertible...what brand was it...give me something?!”
Her: “I don’t know...I told you it was red!”
She's better now.
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I mean, regular people really don’t care about cars.
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Which, considering that cars are among the largest expenses that people make, is
properly fucked.
Do we accept ignorance of whether or not a house has a garage or kitchen? Of general ideas of square footage in a house? What different kinds of floor are?
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Lol what movie is that from?
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Ben Stiller’s Zoolander . It’s a very... unique movie. Actually, I’m thinking of responding to people with gifs from it for the rest of the day.
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Zoolander...you should go watch it if you haven’t seen it yet
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Well, they know some very minor things but these are girls my age so expecting them to know what RWD is might be pushing it.
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Seems about right :)
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This unexpectedly made my day
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It’s hard for me to keep up on all the new stuff but there is no doubt those Mansory car are gross (after a quick GIS).
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I’m on it!
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Hah! Your wife and mine must be separated at birth. My daughter, on the other hand, knew the make and model AND owner of every vehicle in the school pick up line by third grade.
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I’m trying though lol. I’m no expert but I have an interest at least. As far as my friends, I can teach them :p
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I’m seriously considering an attempt to use Zoolander gifs in most of my responses to people for the rest of the day.
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I’ll try and check it out asap.
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I haven’t but it looks funny :P
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There are no such cars coming out. They are relying on stupid speculations and renders from German Auto Bild (the worst automotive gossip magazine).
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So, that makes us irregular?
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Do they think your weird for liking cars so much?
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So Ramblin, what do you think of the stock market as of today?
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Well, I like me some good gossip, magazines, and cars lol. But i’ll take your advise and ignore this place.
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When we are on the bus to go to our softball games, I point out cars and they call me a dork.
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They shouldn’t be allowed to call themselves journalists. They’re that bad..
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So true! Same goes for girls. A lot of guys name off models and actresses as their dream girls. We want a cute, normal, down to Earth girl thats funny and shares a similar interest.
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That makes us high octane.
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Probably not what you were fishing for, but I don’t care.
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I can identify with Derek Zoolander. Many times a day I ponder if theres more to life than just being really really ridiculously good looking.
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Dayum!
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A childhood friend bought her first car when I was younger and she brought it straight round to me to show. I wasn’t fully dressed to go outside. So I asked:
Me: what did you get
Her: a car
Me: ye’, but what kid?
Her: I don’t know, say some makes
Me: Vauxhall, Nissan, Ford,
Her: Ford I think
Me: Ford what?
Her: a blue one
Me: okay, what model?
Her: I don’t know, say some models
Me: Fiesta, Orion, Escort, Mondeo
Her: it’s small
Me: okay, Fiesta
Her: that sounds right.
Now baring in mind she is still standing next to the closed front door. I throw on a shirt and shoes and open the door and it’s parked right outside my house. All she had to do was open the door, walk to the back of the car and read the words ‘Ford Fiesta Popular Plus’, but no.
Some weeks later, she got a flat tyre and woke me up at 2-4am in the morning to walk across town and change her tyre as she didn’t know the tyre iron and Jack are in the engine bay and the spare tyre is slung under the rear of the car and you have to unbolt it through the boot (trunk).
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Yeah, it was years of training but she has an acceptable level of car knowledge now. She can recognize all of the line brands and models from ~1995 to present as well as recognize most exotics/super-luxury brands if not models. She also picks up most of the details so even when she doesn’t know what she saw we can track it down based on description (ex. a few months back she saw an Exige and described it well enough I could call up a picture and get a ‘That’s it!’)
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Interest helps. But now you’ll want a brown manual diesel wagon.
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OPPO? Yes. Probably.
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go for it
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Lol this is great! I look forward to the next one. There will be another right?
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Don’t fall for the hype. Pick any two of the four and you will be alright. Brown, manual. Manual, wagon. Diesel, wagon. Three of the four and you will be killing it.
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I’ll make a post asking for questions to ask.
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Eww no! Viper or Z06!
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Yes.
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Ya’ll narrowed it down at the end lol. My dad showed me how to change a tire a long time ago and we do drills at least once a year since.
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Ooo, good answer!
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I’m okay with that.
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It’s gold, especially if you want to turn off your brain for a while.
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Well done, Obi-wan! What’s your secret, flash cards?
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Cool. Good lass.
Wait, you do ‘drills once a year’.
I can see it now. Early Sunday morning, your dad standing at the end of your bed with a whistle, blows it really loud and shouts ‘right you ‘orrible lot, get yourself up and dressed and be on the front at oh five twenty, did you hear me?’, ‘move it, move it’.
‘squad, atten-tion’, right the enemy is advancing every second, your Chrysler Neon has a puncture, what do you do, what do you do?’, ‘move’.
Thankfully it’s now part of the driving test to know how to check your oil, water, windscreen wash, how to check a tyre, change a tyre, etc...
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Sorry, didn't know it was answered already.
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So is this the part where I fear for our future? You’re our only hope.
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And so you have.
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No secret...just 16 years of consistent reinforcement that I find it unacceptable to not know these things, haha. Coincidentally, I have learned to identify and describe birds the same way since she’s a big birder.
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Stellar! And congrats on 16 years. It sounds like you’re doing it right. We’re onto 18 now.
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It seems like Jalop may be more nature than nurture...
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You have to embrace the weird. Unless it’s Nibby level weird. then run.
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I read Will Farrell was in it. Can’t go wrong there.
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Lol not that intense but more of a refresher. I do know how to check fluids and filters.
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Lol good! :)
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I’m trying to solve this :)
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Writing that down
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Why?
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My weird-o-meter needs calibrating. I sometimes need additional cues that it’s time to run.
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If it’s Nibby, then run. Always.
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Good lass.
You’ll have to do a Q & A or something at school to high light vehicle maintenance and general car care to other students or something.
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MerMAN pop! MERMAN!!