Know Your Automotive Phenomenon: Carstanza

"TeamClearCoat" (teamclearcoat) 02/03/2018 at 14:39 • Filed to: None

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Car image via VWVortex, Costanza image via Wikipedia

From time to time on our show, we document things we oberve as car enthusiasts. Often they’re things to which normal humans wouldn’t give a second thought, but torment us for some reason. “Carstanza” is perhaps our most successful effort to date; when a car owner badges their car up (think Type R badges on a Civic DX), they’re commiting themselves to a lie in much the same way that George Costanza might have on Seinfeld. Hence, “Carstanza.” All of us have seen this sort of nonsense on the road before, but as far as we know, we’ve never had a shorthand for talking about it. That all changed when I saw a BMW 328i with M badges all over it, and “Carstanza” was born (clip starts at 20:14):

It’s not all fun and games, though. It all can lead to madness, as evidenced by Dave seeing the most puzzling VW Passat and Mercedes S-Class examples (clip starts at 40:38):

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WilliamsSW > TeamClearCoat 02/03/2018 at 14:58

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Love it, though it reminds me of this

TeamClearCoat > WilliamsSW 02/03/2018 at 15:00

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Kinja’d?

WilliamsSW > TeamClearCoat 02/03/2018 at 15:05

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Very much so. Kinja is auto deleting my photos apparently.

It was a pic of a Nissan Stanza.

TeamClearCoat > WilliamsSW 02/03/2018 at 15:21

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Always a good choice.

ranwhenparked > TeamClearCoat 02/03/2018 at 16:14

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It’s also the sort of thing Jerry might do - remember when he was changing the waist size on his jeans?

TeamClearCoat > ranwhenparked 02/03/2018 at 16:21

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Good point!