Haha, my first thought was that the very MANLY MAN doesn't know the history of his chosen fossil burner or he'd have pretended to drive some other brand...
Exactly this! My first thoughts on hearing Subaru are, lesbian icon. Secondly it’s the little prick with the popcorn exhaust that drives down the high street, I want to know how he affords the insurance. A lot of men and cars are weird and the joke about penis extensions holds true. Insecure little boys. Most of the ones I hang out with would be more impressed with a van. As for what I would think of a man getting out of that BMW, it depends if he let me take it for a spin.
Being honest the words used by the women to describe men who would drive a certain car are aligned with what I think. The man who seeks attention thinking he's great because he has a sports car. My sister pointed out the other week that most of the men we see locally with a certain type of car tend to be men of a certain vintage as opposed to young men. Also women driving huge 4x4s just to drop kids off at school. That is a generalisation though. As for me? As long as my car gets me from A to B I don't care.
Captain Kerplunk (deliberate) put me in mind of that picture of Andrew and Tristan Tate trying project their manliness by standing in the rain wearing only boxer shorts. A role model for our dear Kaptain I suspect.
I've lived in the country for 17 years now after growing up in Sydney. One time an old friend from my days in the rat race passed through here and stopped in to say g'day and show me the big expensive and manly 4wd he had recently purchased. He took me for a drive along a dirt road though one of our national parks, which at the time was not the best maintained. It was also quite steep at the far end where it climbed to the top of a small local mountain with a lookout which had fantastic views of the area. He proceeded to tell me how glad he was to have such powerful and rugged vehicle which enabled him to visit such places, suggesting this was all very manly. He seemed a bit deflated after I explained that I and my girlfriend had travelled that road to the lookout a few times previously. Usually using hiking boots and backpacks, unless we were short on time. Then we went in my reliable old 1996 Daihatsu Charade hatchback, which had smoother suspension than his big 4wd and so was quicker and more comfortable on this drive than his big "manly" vehicle. 😁
I suggested we walk there next time, or go in my hatchback, but he hasn't returned to take up the offer. I guess those methods aren't manly enough for him. 🤔
As the gender non conformer it turns my head inside out.
I love cars. I would put a car around a track faster than most. I love electric cars. I test drove Kia ev2. I don't like it. But it was really well behaved, like the Volkswagen Caddy I drove on holiday in Lanzarote, like the Fiat Panda I drove through the mountains in Spain, and that tiny car got a decent amount of shopping in the boot.
My best moment, at work, children's wear shop, the girls are talking about cars, what car would you like? They ask me... This is a moment. I'm m2f transgender. If I get the wrong answer I won't fit with the group!!!!!
Audi TT I answer. "See! I told you" said the other woman. I'd passed.
Because an Audi TT will go fast, but the road handling. It will hold the corners. It will support the driver.
The Kia ev2. You feel the flat battery base. If you sit in the back you are bounced on every little bump.
I'd still buy a Kia ev2. The drive it was very well behaved. The bings and the bongs can be minimised.
My sister they can never be minimised enough for me. I think I have become over-sensitised by a few years with a Kia and the reversing blongs still bring me out in hives when I hear them from several streets away (possibly even someone reversing in another city…) I would never have thought something as daft as the amount of beeps a car makes would end up being so influential in my decision making but there it is 😁😁
Love that he's driving a Subaru! Where's he goin', REI? Maybe the hippie Co-op for kombucha and sauerkraut? Adorable! I have a Subaru, they're the LL Bean of cars, you drive them until they fall apart, then get another. (I've never had to get another, so far, one car my whole adult life.)
I've heard that door-to-door petition gatherers have a Subaru rule; you can visit a house in an otherwise hostile neighborhood if there's a Subaru out front. People call them Lezbaru, and buy them partly because of that. I kinda suspect KaptainKlunk1 was joking...
I love cars, I’m a part time automotive journalist alongside my day job. I love old smelly noisy ones, and also new clean efficient ones. I don’t understand why some men (it’s always men) feel threatened by the existence of electric cars or new tech. No one is stopping them keeping what they have, but they seem to feel they have to object to EVs, or somehow stop others from choosing them.
I once knew a man who drove an MG, back in the 1980s when that meant a beautiful little machine. He’d restored it himself, when he wasn’t driving around in his work vehicle, a Mr Whippy ice-cream van.
Many years ago I bought a Subaru knowing it to be a truly exceptional car and one that I wished to experience. It almost immediately became apparent that the car's capabilities were so great that driving it on a public road could almost never be an exciting, engaging experience. The damn thing was just so good it required a racetrack or rally course to enjoy it to anything near the full. No matter what I wanted to do the car could exceed, so my level of skill became irrelevant to the point where using it became a mixture of boredom, frustration and frequent fuel stops.
It's weird isn't it. I don't understand why people can't drive what makes them smile, and let others drive whatever makes them smile. Who cares if it's fuelled by petrol, electric, diesel, hydrogen, or fairy dust. Just drive whatever you personally like, and let others drive what they like.
At EV event's back in the day, everyone; men, women, young, old, all, gathered around to see the new EVs, to talk about them, to admire even. The old grumpy sports cars and pickup trucks, often just men, mostly men, always men. Just an observation, you know, if you were looking to find a mate.
Haha, my first thought was that the very MANLY MAN doesn't know the history of his chosen fossil burner or he'd have pretended to drive some other brand...
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108739853/when-subaru-came-out-classic
That is exquisitely funny
Exactly this! My first thoughts on hearing Subaru are, lesbian icon. Secondly it’s the little prick with the popcorn exhaust that drives down the high street, I want to know how he affords the insurance. A lot of men and cars are weird and the joke about penis extensions holds true. Insecure little boys. Most of the ones I hang out with would be more impressed with a van. As for what I would think of a man getting out of that BMW, it depends if he let me take it for a spin.
Being honest the words used by the women to describe men who would drive a certain car are aligned with what I think. The man who seeks attention thinking he's great because he has a sports car. My sister pointed out the other week that most of the men we see locally with a certain type of car tend to be men of a certain vintage as opposed to young men. Also women driving huge 4x4s just to drop kids off at school. That is a generalisation though. As for me? As long as my car gets me from A to B I don't care.
Me too
Captain Kerplunk (deliberate) put me in mind of that picture of Andrew and Tristan Tate trying project their manliness by standing in the rain wearing only boxer shorts. A role model for our dear Kaptain I suspect.
That was my first thought, along with climate change denier and right winger.
I've lived in the country for 17 years now after growing up in Sydney. One time an old friend from my days in the rat race passed through here and stopped in to say g'day and show me the big expensive and manly 4wd he had recently purchased. He took me for a drive along a dirt road though one of our national parks, which at the time was not the best maintained. It was also quite steep at the far end where it climbed to the top of a small local mountain with a lookout which had fantastic views of the area. He proceeded to tell me how glad he was to have such powerful and rugged vehicle which enabled him to visit such places, suggesting this was all very manly. He seemed a bit deflated after I explained that I and my girlfriend had travelled that road to the lookout a few times previously. Usually using hiking boots and backpacks, unless we were short on time. Then we went in my reliable old 1996 Daihatsu Charade hatchback, which had smoother suspension than his big 4wd and so was quicker and more comfortable on this drive than his big "manly" vehicle. 😁
I suggested we walk there next time, or go in my hatchback, but he hasn't returned to take up the offer. I guess those methods aren't manly enough for him. 🤔
As the gender non conformer it turns my head inside out.
I love cars. I would put a car around a track faster than most. I love electric cars. I test drove Kia ev2. I don't like it. But it was really well behaved, like the Volkswagen Caddy I drove on holiday in Lanzarote, like the Fiat Panda I drove through the mountains in Spain, and that tiny car got a decent amount of shopping in the boot.
My best moment, at work, children's wear shop, the girls are talking about cars, what car would you like? They ask me... This is a moment. I'm m2f transgender. If I get the wrong answer I won't fit with the group!!!!!
Audi TT I answer. "See! I told you" said the other woman. I'd passed.
Because an Audi TT will go fast, but the road handling. It will hold the corners. It will support the driver.
The Kia ev2. You feel the flat battery base. If you sit in the back you are bounced on every little bump.
I'd still buy a Kia ev2. The drive it was very well behaved. The bings and the bongs can be minimised.
My sister they can never be minimised enough for me. I think I have become over-sensitised by a few years with a Kia and the reversing blongs still bring me out in hives when I hear them from several streets away (possibly even someone reversing in another city…) I would never have thought something as daft as the amount of beeps a car makes would end up being so influential in my decision making but there it is 😁😁
Love that he's driving a Subaru! Where's he goin', REI? Maybe the hippie Co-op for kombucha and sauerkraut? Adorable! I have a Subaru, they're the LL Bean of cars, you drive them until they fall apart, then get another. (I've never had to get another, so far, one car my whole adult life.)
I've heard that door-to-door petition gatherers have a Subaru rule; you can visit a house in an otherwise hostile neighborhood if there's a Subaru out front. People call them Lezbaru, and buy them partly because of that. I kinda suspect KaptainKlunk1 was joking...
I love cars, I’m a part time automotive journalist alongside my day job. I love old smelly noisy ones, and also new clean efficient ones. I don’t understand why some men (it’s always men) feel threatened by the existence of electric cars or new tech. No one is stopping them keeping what they have, but they seem to feel they have to object to EVs, or somehow stop others from choosing them.
I once knew a man who drove an MG, back in the 1980s when that meant a beautiful little machine. He’d restored it himself, when he wasn’t driving around in his work vehicle, a Mr Whippy ice-cream van.
Many years ago I bought a Subaru knowing it to be a truly exceptional car and one that I wished to experience. It almost immediately became apparent that the car's capabilities were so great that driving it on a public road could almost never be an exciting, engaging experience. The damn thing was just so good it required a racetrack or rally course to enjoy it to anything near the full. No matter what I wanted to do the car could exceed, so my level of skill became irrelevant to the point where using it became a mixture of boredom, frustration and frequent fuel stops.
So I reverted to econoboxes and a motorbike.
It’s a worry. I drive a hybrid Toyota RAV4 - what does that make me?
Yours sincerely
Confused.
It's weird isn't it. I don't understand why people can't drive what makes them smile, and let others drive whatever makes them smile. Who cares if it's fuelled by petrol, electric, diesel, hydrogen, or fairy dust. Just drive whatever you personally like, and let others drive what they like.
Hoomans can be odd sometimes.
At EV event's back in the day, everyone; men, women, young, old, all, gathered around to see the new EVs, to talk about them, to admire even. The old grumpy sports cars and pickup trucks, often just men, mostly men, always men. Just an observation, you know, if you were looking to find a mate.