Shit or Shite?

[Hendry]

This has probably been asked a thousand times but I haven't much of an idea so what makes a car shit and what makes a car shite, what's the difference and how do you tell?

 

I mean I can obviously tell that an Allegro is shite and a mk1 Kia Rio is just shit but I don't know why or what the difference is. They are both awful so don't understand why both aren't the same status.

[Mr Livered]

Allegro, awful? Good heavens man!

 

<walks away shaking head and muttering>

[Junkman]

Let me quote a great philosopher.

 

I don't want to see a formal definition of what is Autoshite, the DVLA would just go and use it as a taxation class to stitch us all up, then we'd all be fighting over BINI and VW logbooks for ringing shenanigans. Shites what you make it celebrate it, and one mans shite is another mans Peugeot.

For me shite's anything that doesn't fit into the big dull kill me now sea of grey being driven aimlessly and kak-handedly throughout our nation. Their function being less vehicular but more to establish a place in a weird and contrived pecking order that exists in the collective shut off minds of the masses. These proles are like ants, they are ants, all behave the same, sound the same, boring predictable soulless zombies. Driving shite isn't playing their game, buying a car for yourself rather than what others consider acceptable gets those closed minded twats knickers in a right old twist eventually bunching up into a knot that chafes on their anus causing their distinctively strange facial expression. Similar story with scene taxed stuff, ludicrously overpriced and that's what matters to a sad twat driven by low self worth to obsess over how others will see him. Still a twat BTW.

[plasticvandan]

if 99% of the public think its shit,then its shite.we are the 1%

[Junkman]

I don't give a flying monkey about what the 'public' thinks, so I couldn't tell.

[barmatt]

not sure of the difference either but I tend to consider any car shite if I get a perverse sense of pleasure from driving it.

[mercrocker]

Sid Vicious said it all - 99percent of the public are cunts.   He, I think, never owned a car but former band member Glen Matlock drove a Sunbeam Alpine when he could probably have had a Porsche.   Shite is the punk of  motoring....

[rml2345]

I'd say a Kia Rio is probably shite too. It is subjective though.

[hauserplenty]

FIAT=SHITE.

YUGO=SHIT.

 

ALL VAUXHALLS/HOLDENS/OPELS/CADILLAC CATERAS/MODERNZ  R SHIT TOO.

Eddyramrod of this parish really knows his shite.

If only he'd quit giving me shit.

 

http://effingpot.com/

...and Bob's yer uncle...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I think The New Radicals said it best.

'We're flat broke,but hey we do it with style.'

I said.

Shite is a state of mind not the state of your car.

 

Gandhi almost said.

Shite is more than life.

Remember that his own Shite is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Suggs did say.

I like driving in my car,it's not quite a Jaguar.

[Skizzer]

It's probably best not to overthink these things, but for once I'll put my oar in as well.  

 

For me, a shite car is one that's unloved or looked down on by the majority.  It might also be shit, which means it's badly designed or made; it might just be unfashionable though, or undeservedly scorned.  My shite definition extends to really tatty (shitty?) examples of cars that otherwise could be mainstream classics - I can even get excited about an E-type or MGB if it looks and smells like a mouldering cesspit.

 

Fully restored or new cars are all the same (unless they're really rare).  Shite cars are all different, with quirks and bodges and funny clonking noises and interesting patterns in the paint.

 

 

 

(Can you tell I'm putting off doing some work this morning?)

[Twiggy]

It`s all down to personal taste.........

 

"One man`s meat is another man`s poison"

[Station]

Autoshite - old cars that middle management people who aspire to own a diesel BMW laughs at.

Anything Jeremy Clarkson doesn't like.

Anything in those 'hilarious' Crap Cars books.

Search through unsold 'Haynes Manuals' on ebay for the years 1970 - 1995 and the cars those manuals cover are shite.

[Junkman]

Search through unsold 'Haynes Manuals' on ebay for the years 1886 - 1986 and the cars those manuals cover are shite.

 

EFA.

[Honey Badger]

Des just about nails it, it's buying something for your enjoyment and not giving into the "scene" or social pressures to conform to the norm, Trigs Cortina is an example I think, he owns it because it brings him a certain amount of pleasure, not to fit into the "OMG old fords are EPIC" scene. DW is another with his disco, he has it because he enjoys using it but isn't part of the ONELIFELIVEIT scene.

 

I had much better argued point with several nuanced arguments, but I lost my train of thought when the new student Totty at work wandered past my desk in a skin tight pair of leggings.