# Let's draw superficial conclusions about people based on their cars. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466 "2014-08-25T17:10:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/41 "2014-08-26T02:48:38Z")
Tesla - I got rich on tech and you didn’t. Oh, by the way, it’s green. I don’t really care about that but it certainly adds to the coolness factor that I am so desperate to rub in your face. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/42 "2014-08-26T02:54:06Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Marisa Tomei? Could be. But, in fact, Whiskey Dickens is right. many of these stereotypes are outdated. But then so are many of the cars out there right now. Some of the newer Caddies are really, really nice to drive and race, but they still have GM reliability issues. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/43 "2014-08-26T02:54:46Z")
Ford Escape/Chevrolet Equinox/Jeep Grand Cherokee - Yeah, I have kids but I’m still totally hip. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/44 "2014-08-26T03:13:46Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > At the turn of the 21st century, Cadillac underwent a revival beginning with models like the CTS and CTS-V, XLR, and ATS. In 2010 the CTS-V set a lap record a the Nurburgring for production sedans, and the updated version won Car & Driver’s 2014 Car of the Year. Yeah, okay. Cadillac screams Florida alterkaker, and you and everyone else knows it. Try as you might to convince others that Cadillac is a cool car, they will continue to laugh at the thought. The day of the Cadillac is over; the manufacturer is simply in denial. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/45 "2014-08-26T14:13:07Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > The brand is spelled “Infiniti,” and Datsun was discontinued in 1986, 3 years before Infiniti was offered. > > At the turn of the 21st century, Cadillac underwent a revival beginning with models like the CTS and CTS-V, XLR, and ATS. In 2010 the CTS-V set a lap record a the Nurburgring for production sedans, and the updated version won Car & Driver’s 2014 Car of the Year. > > If you want to spend your $10 at Mercury dealership, you’d have to first invest in a time machine, as the brand was killed in 2010, and the last car rolled off the line in Jan. 2011. I bet you’re fun at parties. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/46 "2014-08-26T14:15:15Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Porsche Carrera: I’m leasing. …and Hair Club for Men is costing me a fucking fortune! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/47 "2014-08-26T14:22:32Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Yeah, okay. Cadillac screams Florida alterkaker, and you and everyone else knows it. Try as you might to convince others that Cadillac is a cool car, they will continue to laugh at the thought. The day of the Cadillac is over; the manufacturer is simply in denial. I think you’re the one denying the complete revolution Caddy has made in the last ten years. You realize many of them share engines with the Corvette and Camaro - the really hot ones? They tend to come up a little short against BMW and Mercedes - fit and finish and interior are not quite up to those standards - but they are hardly pretenders. And they haven’t had a quarter vinyl roof or opera windows for quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/48 "2014-08-26T15:16:27Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Ram truck - want to make sure that no woman will drive my vehicle. > > There are more, but these are the local highlights. Want to bet? I know plenty of women driving giant Rams, usually because they work in jobs where that level of hauling capacity is necessary, but some just like giant trucks. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/49 "2014-08-26T15:31:52Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Toyota Prius: I’m green and I really like technology. Or just gay. Corvette - an asshole slowly losing his hair Subaru Forester with 2 or more ladies in it – lesbians ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/50 "2014-08-26T18:08:25Z")
(Slightly-built, twenty-something guy across the street from us) Fall/Winter: Dodge Ram pickup, jacked up way high, various yeehaw accessories & stickers, big Diesel with (apparently) no muffler; Spring/Summer: Harley Hawg, window-rattling loud; outlaw-wannabe hanky-headband; Our affectionate name for him: “Dickless” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/51 "2014-08-26T18:37:37Z")
1994 Honda Civic SI hatchback: I am coolness incarnate. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/52 "2014-08-26T18:53:05Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > (Slightly-built, twenty-something guy across the street from us) > > Fall/Winter: Dodge Ram pickup, jacked up way high, various yeehaw accessories & stickers, big Diesel with (apparently) no muffler; Does it have bumper nuts? Tell me it has bumper nuts. ---
**Author:** ![SpeedwayRyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SpeedwayRyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpeedwayRyan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/53 "2014-08-26T19:03:38Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Subaru - sensible mundane who doesn’t need a Volvo nameplate to drive in a bad weather zone. The Subaru WRX STI: a car for sensible, mundane folks. > [@](#): > > The new STI has been through an Extreme Makeover. The platform is all-new for 2015, with increased torsional rigidity and a substantially beefed-up suspension. The wagon is gone; only a sedan is available. The 305-hp, 2.5-liter turbo-four carries over, paired with a six-speed manual, limited-slip differentials, and torque vectoring to keep the STI glued to the road. The result is one extremely solid and stable platform, but it comes at the price of a punishing ride—and a punishing price. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/54 "2014-08-26T19:21:44Z")
> [@SpeedwayRyan](#): > > The Subaru WRX STI: a car for sensible, mundane folks. Quite. “…with brain damage.” 😃 (Most of the makes above have at least one insanity-mobile in their current or past lines…) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/55 "2014-08-26T20:25:28Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Does it have bumper nuts? Tell me it has bumper nuts. No, bumper nuts are a sure sign the truck is owned by a woman. A redneck woman. ---
**Author:** ![beandog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beandog/32/7604_2.png) [@beandog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beandog)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/56 "2014-08-26T20:55:22Z")
PT Cruiser: elderly person, or young person who was given (saddled with) an elderly relative’s PT Cruiser ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/57 "2014-08-26T21:11:55Z")
Any crossover SUV: I think I am fooling everybody (and myself) that its cooler than driving a mini-van ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/58 "2014-08-26T21:46:48Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I think you’re the one denying the complete revolution Caddy has made in the last ten years. You realize many of them share engines with the Corvette and Camaro - the really hot ones? Don’t care. I wouldn’t be caught dead in a Cadillac…well, maybe if I’m dead because I wouldn’t know any better. There is nothing Cadillac could do, including reducing the price of a car to a dime, that would earn my business. As far as I am concerned, the brand is poison. Revolution, schmevolution. It’s a Cadillac. Clunk! Clunk I tell you. How’s that for a 21st century perception of an automotive anachronism? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![buddy431](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@buddy431](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddy431)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/59 "2014-08-26T22:42:56Z")
Cadillac’s [commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8) that they played during the Olympics turned me off to the brand. “Do you know what’s more important in life than spending time with your family? Working hard so that you can have stuff. Stuff including a Cadillac”. So if Cadillac wants you to think that people who drive them are materialistic workaholics, if that’s the image that the brand is encouraging, I wonder what sort of connotations they’re trying to fight. ---
**Author:** ![Beelzebubba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Beelzebubba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beelzebubba)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466/60 "2014-08-27T03:06:29Z")
I like to think that my Mazdas (2012 CX-9 GT SUV and 2014 Mazda6 GT Sedan) say that I enjoy driving and I buy cars that are fun to drive! =) I looked at the Acura MDX and a few other ‘premium’ brand SUVs before buying the CX-9, but I liked the Mazda better. A lot of the ‘upscale’ brands just scream “douche-bag”… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466.md?page=4)