What your car says about you.

[londonm]

After a chat about car 'image' with someone here earlier, I'm really interested what your car says about you. The mx5 and mgf were always, jokingly of course, referred to as a hairdressers choice of transport. But do cars say a lot about people really? Often it's just that it came along at the right price and was as simple as that. So, for market research purposes, what do these cars say about their owners? Label model, followed by short descriptive answer, in your replies. 

 

It'll be fun, and no swearing unless absolutely necessary.

 

 

[Partridge]

Fiat 500.

 

Officer worker girlwoman called Gemma. Who WILL drive into you at some stage.

[trigger]

I drive a small car to compensate for my rather large penis.

[HillmanImp]

Can I just get this thread over and done with by saying all Audi drivers are cunts. END OF.

[Junkman]

One of my cars says I'm an obnoxious git, the other one says I'm a pseudo-intellectual tat seller at boot sales.

[John F]

Kitten-murdering atheist with barry-boy / aspirational capitalist running-dog split personality, but mainly a kitten-murdering atheist.

[Micrashed]

In order of appearance

Twat

Twat

OK

Twat

Twat

OK

Twat

Cuckold

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Worryingly,I have amongst other actual and futureshite a 300C (albeit a black estate) and a white 500 and whatever people think they definitely treat you differently on the road, no one cuts up theChrysler and it's not just cos I'm a big bald ugly fecker because both my wife and other people I've lent it to have similar experiences, although all comments ( and there are a lot) in petrol stations or car parks are always complimentary. Gaps open up in traffic,people always let it out at junctions, whereas the Fiat is seen as a target for every uppity knob jockey photocopier salesmen in an A4 or 320d. Not just in this country either ,last year in a Paris gridlock I saw a French X3 driver deliberately edge into the side of my two teenage daughters in the Fiat, the plastic scuff probably polished out easier than Pierre's shit stained cream leather after I tried to do my bit for Entente Cordiale by pulling him out of the 6" gap in his drivers window. Gotta love the Gendarmes, who were observing from a shite Scenic, though they just told me to do one , I think! ( and I wasn't driving the Chrysler, I was in a Land Rover )

[garethj]

I think we've heard most of the pub-bores go through this kind of thing, in fact I was in a pub yesterday and had to sit on my hands while he whittered on about how you haven't lived unless you'd owned a supercharged car.  At a million to one shot his own car was supercharged, who'd have thunk it?

 

I'll leave the clichés to those who care, I think many people on here choose their own car because

a. They fancy a change

b. They haven't seen one like that for ages

c. It's cheap

 

Which I rather like, and is much more interesting than hairdresser / vicar / twat or whatever.

[Micrashed]

Having had a drive of the 300C estate (piss poor rearward visibility IMHO) its a nice car. But most of the ones I see have faux Bentley badges and that lumps  them in Twat territory for me now.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Having had a drive of the 300C estate (piss poor rearward visibility IMHO) its a nice car. But most of the ones I see have faux Bentley badges and that lumps  them in Twat territory for me now.

Not saying I'm not a twat but here's a mitigating picture of mine,showing standard grille and no Bentley badges

[John F]

I think we've heard most of the pub-bores go through this kind of thing, in fact I was in a pub yesterday and had to sit on my hands while he whittered on about how you haven't lived unless you'd owned a supercharged car.  At a million to one shot his own car was supercharged, who'd have thunk it?

 

I'll leave the clichés to those who care, I think many people on here choose their own car because

a. They fancy a change

b. They haven't seen one like that for ages

c. It's cheap

 

Which I rather like, and is much more interesting than hairdresser / vicar / twat or whatever.

 

Cliché?

 

I challenge you to find someone else on the Internet that's described themself as a kitten-murdering atheist with barry-boy / aspirational capitalist running-dog split personality, but mainly a kitten-murdering atheist...!

[garethj]

Cliché?

 

I challenge you to find someone else on the Internet that's described themself as a kitten-murdering atheist with barry-boy / aspirational capitalist running-dog split personality, but mainly a kitten-murdering atheist...!

 

I could hit half a dozen with a bread roll from where I'm sitting now

 

Or the truth is, I haven't got a clue what you're talking about.  Have I missed a thread somewhere?

[trigger]

 

I saw this one a while back, In Colchester a years ago there was a taxi company that used these, probably gone bust now.

[Jim Bell]

What does my car say about me?

 

It says "He has problems saving up more that £400"

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The ironic thing is ,people regularly think they're Bentleys. A couple of nights ago I picked up a German guy from Manchester airport and drove him to London,somewhere around Luton (ie at least 150 miles into the journey) he peers at the clock and says' what is that logo?' I tell him it's a Chrysler badge and he pipes up 'oh I thought this was a Bentley' yeah right because they're known for their diesel estate cars with rattly anti roll bar bushes, fuckwit!

Interestingly he is a consultant for RollsRoyce.

[Cheggers]

The ironic thing is ,people regularly think they're Bentleys. A couple of nights ago I picked up a German guy from Manchester airport and drove him to London,somewhere around Luton (ie at least 150 miles into the journey) he peers at the clock and says' what is that logo?' I tell him it's a Chrysler badge and he pipes up 'oh I thought this was a Bentley' yeah right because they're known for their diesel estate cars with rattly anti roll bar bushes, fuckwit!

Interestingly he is a consultant for RollsRoyce.

I can't help but get the feeling he was just being nice...the 300C's nice, but it definitely ain't a Bentley

 

 

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[Junkman]

Interestingly he is a consultant...

 

Interestingly this explains everything.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I think many people on here choose their own car because

a. They fancy a change

b. They haven't seen one like that for ages

c. It's cheap

 

I think that Gareth is spot on. The misconception that one's car says something about them is the very basis of modern car marketing, which most people on here hate with a passion.

[tooSavvy]

tag says it all, really...

 

tooSavvy

[chaseracer]

I have a Mercedes 300E, a Berlingo Multispace and a Citroen Dyane. You tell ME what that says.

 

Then again, don't...

 

[I_am_Diesel]

I think my cars say everything about me perfectly......old, knackered, odd smelling with brown rusty stains in hidden away places.

[Rusty Pelican]

No idea as we use this rather a lot

You tell me but please be gentle ( or not )

 

[vulgalour]

Mentalist intent on lowering house prices and rust proofing his own parking spot.

 

EDIT:  okay, so that was aimed at me rather than the lovely little Commer above, but I suppose it could equally well apply to anyone on here.

[trigger]

In all seriousness, my cars just say that I like to drive something different, not fit into the norm, beside who give's a flying toss what other people think of my cars or even what I think of them because of their cars?.

[fordperv]

my car says "this guy has a really understanding mrs" and "he is too cool to be a sheep and buy a brand new car"

[alf892]

I take it for granted

 

I never buy it flowers

 

I'm only nice to it when I want something

 

I should care for it more rather than just ride it all the time

 

Sometimes it says 'we have to talk'........we do this through the medium of spanners and swearing

[Junkman]

I think that Gareth is spot on. The misconception that one's car says something about them is the very basis of modern car marketing, which most people on here hate with a passion.

 

Yeah, but, I love my stereotypes and prejudices.

[Cavcraft]

'Massive twat' and 'mingebag'

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I can't help but get the feeling he was just being nice...the 300C's nice, but it definitely ain't a Bentley

 

 

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No definitely stupid not being nice . I think I'm able to distinguish patronising and condescending comments from real surprise. It should be impossible to confuse the two ,I've had an old Turbo R and the only thing they have in common is shit brakes if you try pushing on a bit. In fact the only car I ever see them as similar to is a Vectra saloon when viewed from the back,probably the chrome strip.

My Chrysler is perfect for what I use it for and I've had a lot of much better cars, but the only one non car people ever comment about is the 300C.