Irrational hate thread: Cars and their owners

Nothing is parked in my driveway. I park in the garage.

I guess you didn’t notice that I’m the guy from earlier who claimed to be a former PT Cruiser owner. I love how the OP thinks that by ending with a prediction that PT Cruiser owners will be offended, that it somehow absolves him of blame for writing an ignorant and offensive OP. And certainly YOU weren’t trying to offend anyone by comparing us to folks with HSV, either, I am sure.

Don’t bother, billfish. Either someone has a sense of humor or they…must resist…don’t.

Burn!

Well, this is definitely turning into an irrational hate thread. . . Sheesh.

Inigo Montoya, billfish678, and crazyjoe: please cool it and confine your hatred to the cars. If you want to mix it up, take it to the Pit.

You’re just salty because you too, own a PT Cruiser.

To get back on track about cars you hate, here is my car.

No, I do not, and never have had, a mullet.

:stuck_out_tongue:

I’m jealous…I really like those cars. They look so much cooler than Camaros from the same era.

Marley, read the OP. It was never really about the cars. It was a hyperbolic venting based on my very real experience with the owners of many PT Cruisers. And say what you like about broad-brushes and irrational, sweeping generalizations–This thread was all about saying, “Man those cars are ugly, and in my experience the people that drive them suffer from marked and outwardly focused cognitive defecits. Which observation I KNOW to be irrational and overly broad but I’m going to have a laugh at myself.” But, regrettably, someone got their panties in a bunch and missed the point. Whatevs.

FTR, I don’t want to “mix it up” I want to laugh at some more steroetypes that are so outrageous even those who hold them know them to be unjustifiable. But alas, now that it’s spelled out, the magic is gone. Close it then.
fuggin PT Cruiser owners hadda show up and spoil the fun…

I get it. My point is that you can take all the potshots you want at people who don’t post here, but the three of you were getting close to insulting each other, which isn’t allowed.

Noted.

And I wasn’t talking about your panties, in case that wasn’t clear.

Yes, I know. Incidentally I don’t have a car, so I have no dog in this fight. :wink:

That would be their 2011 economy model V6 that gets 30 mph on the highway. :wink:

Or a Prius, in my experience.

Wierd. I picture it as a middle aged man with a receding hairline, or mostly-bald-except-the-sides hair… With glasses, he must have glasses., and gray hair.

Roadster convertibles.
Does anyone drive these things besides balding 60 year-old+ white guys?

In the mid-80s I worked at a service station on the New Jersey Turnpike. (Joyce Kilmer, if you must know.) A lot of lore relating to cars and their owners was passed around by the bored pump jockeys. The only one that I retained was the one that seemed truest: that people who drove personal vehicles with diesel engines tended towards jerkishness, and people who drove diesel cars (as opposed to pickups) were almost always rude. The only diesel cars I can recall pumping were various Mercedes (and maybe BMW?) and this one big-ass type of Oldsmobile. Which seems like it would be 2 different groups of people.

Still, when I see a diesel car, I think, “Probably a jerk.”

Yep! A 48-year-old non-balding white guy in my case. :smiley:

Young… thanks, if you consider 48 young.

Male… pretty sure on that point

Asshole… I’ve been called worse

Drives like a maniac… I’m more often told I drive like a Grandpa (but if the conditions are right… yes)

Not quite a roadster, but a ragtop… another 48 year old white guy with a very full head of hair.

Yeah… way to twist that knife in us a bit. Those of us who have the older models had to pay extra for the V8 to get that horsepower. Now it is considered standard on the basic model.

But I’m glad mine isn’t restricted to only 30 Miles per Hour… the restrictor on mine is set at 150. :stuck_out_tongue: