"Carbon Fiber Sasquatch" (turbopumpkin) 07/10/2017 at 15:59 • Filed to: None

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When you’re talking to your non car friend and they have a car problem

Bytemite > Carbon Fiber Sasquatch 07/10/2017 at 16:07

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It’s baffling how some people don’t know how to spell their car’s name. It’s written all over the inside and outside of the thing. Missibishi? You’re shitting me. The concertable part I’ll pass over as a typo. Transmissible...I just can’t.

itschrome > Bytemite 07/10/2017 at 16:10

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Im in my car now. It doesnt say chevy, Chevrolet, or impala anywhere in here..

Chuckles > Bytemite 07/10/2017 at 16:12

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I had a coworker who wasn’t even sure what kind of car she drove. It turned out to be a 90's Corolla that she bought on Craigslist, likely from an ad that just said “Good commuter car.” When I got in it, the first thing I noticed was the white aftermarket stereo that said “Alpine Marine” on the faceplate. She didn’t even realize that it was a boat stereo.

HammerheadFistpunch > Carbon Fiber Sasquatch 07/10/2017 at 16:12

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Whew, Im glad to hear its not transmissible. I sure don’t want to catch it.

Jcarr > Carbon Fiber Sasquatch 07/10/2017 at 16:13

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I love it when friends/family tell me that their car has a “V-4".

Wow, I didn’t know you drive a 919 Hybrid.

Bytemite > itschrome 07/10/2017 at 16:15

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Fine, it’s on pieces of paper in your car. Owner’s manual, registration and insurance.

Bytemite > Chuckles 07/10/2017 at 16:17

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...wow.

So she’s never looked at her trunk and saw the Corolla on there? How the hell did she get insurance and title.

fintail > Carbon Fiber Sasquatch 07/10/2017 at 16:22

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And to think, you share the road with these people. Think extra hard about that when on a motorcycle.

Chuckles > Bytemite 07/10/2017 at 16:24

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I think she had been driving it since high school, so it’s likely that the car was in her parent’s name. Either that or she knew the name when she registered the car but promptly forgot it after because some people really don’t think about their cars ever.

Mercedes Streeter > Bytemite 07/10/2017 at 16:25

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My mum doesn’t know what she drives. She only ever looks at the badging when she needs to and immediately forgets what she’s driving afterwards.

WilliamsSW > Jcarr 07/10/2017 at 16:27

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I have at least one friend with a V6 in his BMW. I don’t bother.

Chuckles > Bytemite 07/10/2017 at 16:28

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I feel the need to mention that this coworker was very intelligent, with a 4 year college degree. I trusted her judgement at work more than most of my coworkers. She just didn’t care about cars at all. It was just transportation to her.

Jcarr > WilliamsSW 07/10/2017 at 16:28

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I once had a neighbor tell me that his Volvo had a V-5. At least he had the number of cylinders right.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Jcarr 07/10/2017 at 16:29

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Ooooohhhh they have a Lancia Fulvia?!?!?

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Carbon Fiber Sasquatch 07/10/2017 at 16:30

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Instructables can be confusable.

Jcarr > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 07/10/2017 at 16:31

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No, just a 1962 Ford Taunus.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Jcarr 07/10/2017 at 16:31

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It could be an old Saab.

RallyWrench > Carbon Fiber Sasquatch 07/10/2017 at 16:31

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Me, trying to parse information from customers.

Jcarr > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 07/10/2017 at 16:34

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Not if it’s a Saturn Vue.

benjrblant > Jcarr 07/10/2017 at 16:39

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V- means engine in non-gearhead speak.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Carbon Fiber Sasquatch 07/10/2017 at 16:41

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“I want to get the V6 Subaru outback, it has more power.”

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > Bytemite 07/10/2017 at 16:43

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How do we know she had either?

jasmits > Jcarr 07/10/2017 at 16:45

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I’m waiting for the day I confidently correct someone who I didn’t realize was a gearhead that they certainly don’t have a V-4 engine and then walking out to a Saab Sonnet and realizing that I’m the idiot this time.

jasmits > Bytemite 07/10/2017 at 16:52

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“Selling my Chevrolet Camero..” How does this even happen?!? If you’ve got a Camaro you must care about cars at least a little bit, even if you’re a complete poser with a V6 4th-gen automatic you thought about your car, it’s not like someone buying the cheapest Corolla as transportation, on some level you looked at it and said ‘yes, I would like a car that makes some kind of statement or is at some level fun to drive.’ And you just took pictures of it WITH THE NAME VISIBLE. AND it’s not autocorrect, Camaro is a big enough nameplate that most spellcheckers recognize it as a real word but Camero is not a word and underlined in red!! UGH WHY.

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jasmits > itschrome 07/10/2017 at 16:53

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That’s a feature, they know you don’t want reminded that you’re driving an Impala.

jasmits > Bytemite 07/10/2017 at 16:57

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You know, I was going to say that it’s a big enough purchase/thing you spend enough time with that you’d think someone MUST remember what it is even if it’s just an appliance to them. But then I tried to remember what brand our refrigerator is and I really actually can’t think of it, even though I look at and use it every single day and it does something important for my daily life. Interesting.

Bytemite > jasmits 07/10/2017 at 17:19

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Kind of like that eye-opening article about the washing machines right!?

diplodicus forgot his password > WilliamsSW 07/10/2017 at 17:47

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Any time I see an ad for a BMW and it says v6 I flag it.

gmctavish needs more space > WilliamsSW 07/10/2017 at 17:54

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Too many BMWs on Craigslist have inline V6s

WilliamsSW > gmctavish needs more space 07/10/2017 at 17:55

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What I want is 2 inline 6's arranged in a vee. :) :)

Carbon Fiber Sasquatch > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/10/2017 at 17:57

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Oh yeah, way better than the V4