11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid
In the ignorance of youth, we all said and thought some hilariously dumb things about cars. We asked you guys to share your own experiences from your childhoods, and these are some of the best responses!
Speed freak
Exhausting levels of ignorance
Size matters
Close enough...
Stop horsing around
“Why is it 'horse power'? Are there actually horses inside the engine?” -…
Same same, but different...
“Why don’t you use cooking oil? It says 'oil' on it” - Submitted by…
Well, if it works for Batman...
If only getting a phone number was that easy...
Four of what?
More engine size confusion
A brave admission
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Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I thought horsepower was the only factor that determined how fast a car was going, then I wondered why all Semi trucks are so slow.
I know that horsepower shows also how much your car can tow. Big was my surprise when turned out that an old tractor our family owned had only 32 bhp….. And i thought that it can tow anything.
Well, we’ve got an old 5-ton truck in our family with a 14l I6 diesel. It only peaks at 270hp but makes 800ft/lbs of torque. ;)
Well, like I said in the original post, I thought the exhaust pipe had to be at the back, because otherwise the car would travel the wrong way.
XD, but what about reverse?
Lol same. I thought the more exhaust pipes you had, the faster you could go. I used to get so excited when I saw a car with 2 or 4 exhaust pipes.
I didn’t think or say any of these? I only said that antenna is missing when I was sitting on the backseat of Volvo and parents said bullsh*it, you can’t see it in this speed and when we stopped they saw that it had fallen off and I had my smug face on.
My father used to tell me the “R” on the gear knob stood for “race”. Yeah…
My father used to say the same ;) it’s either race or rallye mode 🙈😂
We (classmates) joke that the R mode is for “Rocket” mode :D
The Fiat Multipa one is unforgiveable. lol jk this is a funny post!
i thought that turbo and nitro is the same thing.
same xdd
And some games keep using the word “turbo” instead of “nitro”
Videogames, right? I had the same problem
Both called boost?
Same
The oil thing is working on a Mk II Golf… Just saying :D
And ladas
I once asked my dad why there weren’t any cars using sheep power :D
XD, lammathrust
I honestly don’t remember thinking anything too stupid, but my friend used to insist that cars weighed between 2 and 3 tonnes. I would answer “yeah, an armored Hummer does”. Also when I told him a Miata for example was less than a tonne, he said, “no that’s impossible, dude, cars have like engines and stuff they arent made of plastic” To this day he still thinks he’s right, and all the facts I showed him from websites can’t be right :’)
what miata? a new miata does weigh over a tonne 1.05 tonnes to be exact lol
I have a photo in front of Multipla when I was a kid. I thought it’s very interesting. It was right when it came out