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NeantHumain
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27 Aug 2008, 9:43 pm

I see cars as a means of transportation and really couldn't care less about different engines and models. When people say, "Did you see that [Ford|GM|Chevy] [Mustang|Civic|Hummer]?" I really couldn't identify what they are referring to.



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28 Aug 2008, 11:11 am

vt420 wrote:
jul wrote:


F14 tomcat.... f16 falcon.....


it may have been a typo on your part, but stuff like that drives me batty

Jeff


:oops: oh my bad on that one. I had to look up my notes but I hate it when I miss stuff I hould know! I don't pay adequate attention.



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28 Aug 2008, 4:31 pm

8O hmm...they're big, loud, and a potential death machine.
also a mode of transportation.
i like walking.


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28 Aug 2008, 8:48 pm

I LOVE CARS!! Cars, trucks, motorcycles ...anything with an engine. I have 4. (a daily driver, a Jeep, a Jetta and a Chevy to bring it to the race track) I love working on them, I love talking about them and I like seeing what others do to theirs.
I sell car parts and photograph motorsports as a living. I collect cars items and memorabilia. I read no less than a dozen auto trade (service) and auto hobbist magazines.
I have built and raced many cars, many off-road trucks and a few motorcycles.

Yes...I like cars.



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28 Aug 2008, 9:48 pm

Oh of course I love cars ! !!

Fascinated since childhood ! !!

I'm seriously obssessed with Ferraris, which are the best sportscar ever made, bar none. The Missus has told me to stop buying books on Ferrari, as I'm accumulating a smal library's worth ! !


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29 Aug 2008, 1:23 am

I'm a car and bike nut. I ride a motorcycle everyday.



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29 Aug 2008, 12:37 pm

I never had any interest in cars or any motorised vehicle, I hate the noise they make, I think no one would ever buy a motorbike that doesn't roar like a lion. But as far as I am concerned it is just a mode of traveling. Don't ask me what brand it is when I just got out of it after I was given a ride, although I do know now a few models, but I can't give a toss about how many CC it has.
But as a child I recall, on motorbike race event on a Sunday, I went round the car park for the event to write down on a notepad the licence numbers. All I did was collecting numbers...

I did play with toy cars, but definitely I was more interested in playing cowboy and Indian in the forest or monopoly, draughts, battleships, stratego or puppeteering. My brother was obsessed with cars and still is today as he is an international truckdriver, he also had miniature circuit with Marklin trains and building scale model airplanes and naval ships.


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29 Aug 2008, 12:41 pm

I like to memorize the make/model of newer cars, however I find cars themselves to be a pain in the ass and I hate driving.



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29 Aug 2008, 12:45 pm

ChristinaCSB wrote:
I like to memorize the make/model of newer cars, however I find cars themselves to be a pain in the ass and I hate driving.

I hate driving and will only drive in automatic cars. I would be terribly stressed drivng on the highway at hig speed surrounded by other speed freaks.

I am runnng out of experince now, the last car I drove was my dad's, not automatic and he would keep his eyes set on how I drove, it just makes me nervous adn want to leave the car.
Keepin my eye on the ball, so to speak is very stressful to me, I realise how many of the road signs I have forgotten their meaning.


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29 Aug 2008, 1:23 pm

I actually have the reverse obsession with cars of most people.

I want the car that gets me from A to B in the most environmentally and economically friendly manner possible.

And I'm obsessive enough about it that I waited 9 months on a waiting list to buy my Prius.


I think muscle/classic cars are archaic beasts, and nascar is the stupidest waste of time and resources imaginable to me.

I don't like professional sports in general, but Nascar is an active drain on the resources of the planet, and has absolutely no point.



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29 Aug 2008, 1:54 pm

exactly, they can my cars with a hydro-oxygin engine...I just can't grasp humans fascination with something that pollutes and makes noise. Show jsut hao primitve we still are, the ETs out there must be alughing in their fists.

No one is interested in silence, silence scares people cause you then confronted with you own self.


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29 Aug 2008, 3:31 pm

I don't know anything about cars. I do not know what popular cars exist.

I have less knowledge about cars than most (non-autistic) people I know.

Probably because when I was kid, I never thought about how cars are not independent, but that there is at least 1 person that is directing everything the car does.

I thought they were nice-to-look-at-somewhat-alive-being. That look like they eat people, too.

My fascination has subsided since I know it's just a vehicle that is entirely be moved by a person.


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30 Aug 2008, 11:45 am

When I was a kid I was really interested in cars. I knew all the types that existed in my country and could recognize them all from far away. I knew a lot about cars and I loved watching when they were being repaired. When I got older I lost this interest in cars because I started to associate this with the abuse I experienced.



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31 Aug 2008, 1:58 am

I've never really been into cars.

My obsession is Motorbikes, however. :D



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31 Aug 2008, 12:32 pm

I enjoy looking at vintage cars and buses. I don't really care for modern vehicles.


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31 Aug 2008, 9:06 pm

I hate cars. But really the only good use of them is that if you live in a rural area where you have to use a car. I won't be driving or learning how to drive anytime soon. The only way I'm driving is if someone pointed a gun to my head and threatened me with death.

I'm more interested in scooters, and I would love to have something similar to this Vespa:
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