Car Culture: A Force For Good And Evil #BlogPost

Car culture is both a wonderful and deplorable thing. We see people having car meets having fun and helping each other, but we also see people driving like douches and crashing and dangerous street racing. Here are the ups and downs of car culture

The Bad Side
In the eyes of non car guys, car guys are obnoxious. “They’re idiots who drive dangerously in loud and obnoxious cars while polluting the environment with tire smoke and exhaust fumes.” In general, car enthusiasts are seen in a negative light and legislation is levied against us. Also, there is a lot of infighting and divides in the car community, it’s everywhere. Import vs muscle, Ford vs Chevy, BMW vs Audi, I could go on but I’m not going to take the time to list all the different types of infighting. This infighting is dividing us when car culture is supposed to unite us. Car driving especially the way we like to do it is risky, to ourselves, our car, and other people. There can be legal, financial and physical concequences if you mess up. Street racing is dangerous and illegal, it’s smarter to race on a legal race track.

The Good Side
The car community is a great way to make friends, and possibly find your soulmate (insert did we just become best friend GIF’s here). There are a lot of helpful people in the car community, and those who can help you experience what car culture is all about. We mingle with people that share a similar passion “Raise your kids with a car habit so they won’t have money for a drug habit.”

Final Thoughts
Overall, being a part of car culture is worth it, even with the gripes of being a part of it. At this point, I don’t care as much about the Chevy vs Ford fight as I do about import vs muscle because muscle car guys here on car throttle are kinda rare.