Today's Community Question: Which car stereotypes are the most unwarranted?

15 Jan 2016

The automotive community is a supportive network of car guys/girls who all share the same passion for four wheels. But that doesn’t stop us disagreeing from time to time, with many of these disagreements stemming from common stereotypes. I mean, how many times have you heard that ‘MX-5s are for hairdressers’ or that ‘all Hondas are ricers’?

Granted these quips can be funny, and they’re usually made in good jest (we’ve done it plenty), but we want to know which stereotypes CTzens think are unfair and undeserved? Let us know in the comments below!

Comments

“Hot hatches are mom cars”

I hate to break it to you, but the VW Golf GTI (from MkV onwards) are mom cars in my country. They are driven by main yobs and moms; not to mention the VW dealers in Singapore only sells them with the DSG.

Lets see……First off: Muscles can’t turn

It’s pretty near the mark though.

They do turn but aren’t as nimble on tight twisty corners.

Yeah.. All of these stereotypes need to stop.

they turn…but not soo good

Correction, we need to stop comparing muscle cars from the 60’s-80’s with cars from the 90’s+. “Oh, your built 1999 Honda Civic can out turn my stock 71 Nova? Congratulations!”

Idiots drive bmws

Automatic is terrible which in reality the technology where it is an auto has the optimized shift times

usually that’s talking about slushboxes though, not dsg’s

Its not about shifting time…

Bugatti veyron is the fastest car in the universe

Well, it kind of is. Just not in the turns.

Henessey. Venom. GT

Drivers with big trucks have small d*cks

Nope that’s still true here in Mississippi :P

What if they have truck nuts though?

For me this is the best: Diesels are sporty

“JDM is for boys”, “ ass holes drive BMWs”, “V6 muscle cars are for girls with rich dadies”

Or… V6 Muscle cars are for topless guys with babyoil smeared all over their body living in Miami/Florida.

What is thus v6 muscle car in which you speak of?

not saying all v6 muscles are driven by white chicks with rich dads but i am saying a lot of white girls with rich dads probably drive v6 musclecars.

I dunno where you live but here in Bulgaria the whole BMW owners are assholes thing is true 95% of the time. Those last five percent are me throwing them a bone.