• Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    20 days ago

    Windows tinted effectively black, giant wing, and a plate cover they think makes them immune to cameras. Total douche canoe.

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      Once, while waiting in line at the DMV (MVA? I forget which states use which acronym), I was behind someone defending their use of plate covers. I don’t know much about the person - I only interacted with them long enough to direct them to another line, mainly to get them away from me - but based on everything they said, they might have been the worst (or at least most annoying) person I ever met.

  • rhacer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    21 days ago

    One of the more disappointing days in my life was when I tried to sit in an R and couldn’t get my knees under the wheel. I had wanted one for a very long time.

    Went running back to VW and the GLI which works very well for someone whose tall.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      My friend bought one. The first time I was in it he wanted to show me how fast it was and how good the shifter was, and he burned the clutch so bad that his garage stunk for a week. I wanted to laugh so badly, but he was so proud of his car, and so worried about the damage he may have caused, that I just acted impressed.

      • rhacer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        20 days ago

        My wife and I went to see Moulin Rouge for our anniversary. We decided we would spend the night after the show at a pretty nice hotel. So we checked in prior to the show. I handed my keys to the valet and she and I checked into our room.

        The venue was about three blocks from the hotel so we walked over and back, on the way back I saw my car parked in the side street that ran next to the hotel.

        The next morning we checked out, I picked up my keys, walked out the side door of the hotel and opened the door for my wife. “What the fuck is that smell?”

        I walked around, and got in the interior smelled awful. Then it dawned on me. The valet didn’t know how to drive a stick, and had done his best to fry my clutch.

        That was why it was parked so close. He couldn’t get it too the garage.

    • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      62·
      20 days ago

      Average Civic pessimist:

      His car is still running

      Why is it still fucking running?

      I’ve bought two fucking cars since he got it, how in the fuck?

      Pick all three. No need to feel shy.

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        23·
        20 days ago

        Nah, my car is 56 years old and still running. Point me to a 56 year old Civic still on the road. I don’t hate Civics, but as a Californian, I am annoyed by the owners/drivers of Civics, just as I am BMW, Porsche, Tesla, and Mercedes drivers. And newer Mustang owners are just Civic owners but they have more money.

        Civic owners are only different in that they think deleting the cat, deleting the muffler, and adding AutoZone stick-on ricer specials will make their car faster (none of them do). My cars got an engine putting out twice the power of a Civic but I don’t need to make it the loudest fart can on the planet. In fact, I have dual mufflers installed, one for each bank, as I have a separated dual exhaust. I don’t ever feel the need to race from a stop light, because I don’t have anything to prove and I don’t care. Go ahead, be stupid and get a speeding/exhibition of speed ticket. I’ll be driving past em grinning all day long.

        Racing is for the track. Not the street. It is unfortunate that Civic owners seem to ignore this the most, but thems the breaks. In the old days it used to be Chevy and GM guys here in the States, but at some point in the 90s it switched to JDM guys, primarily Civic owners. And don’t get me wrong, I miss the 90s/00s West Coast car scene just as much as everyone else. But that doesn’t mean that I think people should be racing on the street.

        I mean, obviously I am not talking about people outside of the car scene. Grandma and grandpa who own a stock Civic from 1973 arent in the demographic I am talking about. Let’s not be intellectually dishonest, I know you know what I am talking about.

        • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          19 days ago

          I miss the 90s/00s West Coast car scene just as much as everyone else.

          I can tell, this whole discussion is transporting me back to the “import vs muscle car” bs from high school

          Try being less angry my dude. The civic modding scene is kinda dead outside the type R, but they have always made great enthusiast’s cars with a little work. Great, high revving engines that make decent power, good chassis, excellent suspension.

          Btw, the street racers around my neck of the woods are mostly driving cars with V6s or V8s. I can’t leave the house past 11 without someone in a Hellcat or Corvette trying to get me to do pulls on the freeway.

        • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          22·
          20 days ago

          I’d love to point you to a 56 year old Civic but I’m sad to say that’s impossible as they were first introduced in 1972.

          Most Civics are getting a bad wrap from 350Z owners because I rarely ever see an SI or an R racing anything. More or less, they commute bros to and from shit. Even modified ones, usually the driver just likes mountain roads.

          Mine’s lowered with BC coils and has a shift kit on it but it’s mostly just for feel. I’m not racing anything. Just enjoying my peppy little dude.

          But I get it, some of these cars are like tossing a skateboard at 75mph down the road, they get all kinds of torn up if kids don’t take care of them.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      51·
      21 days ago

      The only one I knew was me. Loner, Old, Essentially Retarded, Pick all.

      But the catalytic was stolen and I junked the car so I’m all good now right?