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zisraelsen:
I've looked around the forum and haven't seen any sort of thread for discussing cars. Not Cars the movie, cars the... cars.

(click to show/hide)I really like them! As a kid I spent a lot of time in the desert- riding motorcycles, dune buggies, rock crawlers, that kind of stuff. Spent a lot of time at off-road racing events. I broke my first car part when I was 4, and I learned to drive a manual transmission at 9 years old. Cars were a big part of my childhood.
Through high school, I drove a 1986 Toyota 4Runner that was falling apart at the seams. With the help of that car, my dad taught me the basics of troubleshooting and working on cars in general. I can simultaneously say that I owe to that car everything I know about mechanics, and that it was a pile of shit and I'm glad I'm not driving it any more.
At the same time I was looking for a car to replace the 4 Runner, I had also recently started playing DiRT, which is a rally game for the Xbox 360. That game is the reason that my next car was a Subaru Impreza, specifically a 1999 Outback Sport named Alfalfa, with 240,000 miles on the clock and 2 previous owners. It's also the reason I started racing! There's a local rallycross event I participate in using that car to this day. I intend to compete in stage rally using it one day, but stage rally is stupid expensive and so I'll have to wait a while for that.

After that car stopped being reliable enough to drive to work and school (at least partially due to the aforementioned racing), I picked up a 2005 Impreza WRX, which is the car I daily today. It's a crapton of fun, and the community surrounding Subaru is really helpful and friendly. With each of these cars, I've learned a little more about driving and fixing them and it's been a really enjoyable learning process.
It's difficult for me, usually, to talk to people I don't know. I'm not very good at making conversation in general, and for someone that doesn't know me,
that usually translates into a lot of awkward silence. If the other person knows about cars, though, I can breathe a sigh of relief. Cars I can talk about,
for a long time, with anyone who wants to. There's not really another subject I can do that with. I don't want to sound like I'm bragging about any of this;
 there are better mechanics than me on the forum and there are faster drivers here too, I'm sure. But the knowledge and skill I've gained in fixing and driving cars is one of the few aspects of my life I feel I can be proud of. So yeah, that's what cars mean to me.As a warning, that was more long-winded and personal than I meant it to be when I started writing.

What do cars mean to all of you guys? Anyone here race or work on their own stuff? Do you guys think electric cars will ever fully replace the internal combustion engine? I do! Do you guys think self-driving cars will happen anytime soon? I don't! Let's talk about them!

TheEvilDog:

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...Cars go vroom vroom nyooooom on the road...

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 20 Aug 2017, 15:49 ---I've looked around the forum and haven't seen any sort of thread for discussing cars. Not Cars the movie, cars the... cars.
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There's a bit in here, but mostly driving matters rather than the vehicles, if I remember aright.  A separate thread on this subject makes sense.

zisraelsen:

--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 20 Aug 2017, 15:54 ---
--- Quote ---What do cars mean to all of you guys?
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...Cars go vroom vroom nyooooom on the road...

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Well said! Some cool ones also go "Braaaaap Stututututu" every now and then.

JoeCovenant:

Never been *into* cars, was always a motorbike kinda guy.

Then a GF said she'd didn't like them, (I know should have just ended it, huh?), so got a car.

Since then, (a few years under the bridge) I've not driving a bike in years, and thanks to marriage and children I now drive an 8 month old Qashqai.

WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED TO ME !!!!???

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