I recognize appreciating cool machines, I really do. I’ve just never been able to wrap my head around being a car guy. Spending huge chunks of change on a car, consistently modifying it, watching car shows all the time. I just dont get it. What’s the big draw for you?
My ex bf was a car guy. He got me interested in it and took me on my 1st midnight drive. BEST. NIGHT. EVER. We snuck out of our houses to go driving down LA. It was SO much fun–playing our favorite songs, speeding, seeing the city lights! Wish I could do it again with him. After we broke up, I view cars as a my love for him so I kept my hobby/interest. But it took me awhile to view it that way because cars reminded me of him which equals sad.
Also I’m an artist interested in illustration/concept design. I find prop design (specifically vehicles and weapons) fun to draw. So as a designer, I would research how things work like the mechanics to get a better understanding of the functionality of said object like cars. And I like how some sports cars look with all the sharp spikes and cool gadgets-- a fuel for my inspiration/imagination. And I just like learning new things.
Driving is fun. Driving events are even more fun. It gets me out of the house even on rainy crappy days.
I like Driving scenic roads.
I love mechanical things that give feedback. Since everything like that has been removed now because of technology ( no vcrs. No reel to reels, no projectors. Heck mosy people type on an ipad now so keyboards are becomibg less of a thing for normal people) its one of the last remaining visceral mechanical experiences.
It also helps i mostly only drive manual rwd cars.
Now do I like traffic or ever expanding suburban nightmare roads designed for Karen that drives her $100k escalade around? No. Ban that shit.
What I don’t understand is how you could not be into cars. There are few things more thrilling than driving a proper sports car the way it was designed to be driven.
It surely doesn’t hurt that I’m a geek, so I’m naturally attracted to anything electronic or mechanical. The inner workings of a vehicle are beyond fascinating.
If you don’t enjoy driving, part of it might have to be due to the fact that you’ve only ever been behind the wheel of boring commuter cars. Take a manual Supra or 400Z for a test drive sometime, and tell me it doesn’t change your opinion of cars. If that doesn’t work for you, then I don’t know what to tell you. To each their own.
Sitting behind the wheel of something belching gas that requires full concentration just isn’t that interesting. Biking is a much more enjoyable activity.
What are your thoughts on EV and Hydrogen-powered sports cars? They don’t exist (yet), but if they did, would that help change your mind?
No. I prefer my appliances functional ;sports cars exchange function for form. Morehowever, the wasted created per is still disproportionate to what is reasonable
And there’s your problem, you see cars as an appliance.
Why even bother driving if you’re going to have that attitude? Just take public transport if you really hate cars that much.
I don’t drive.
Cars are an appliance. Your problem is that you don’t see them as such
I gotta say, it’s wild behaviour to come into a vehicle appreciation post and call them toasters hahaha.
Your bike is an egg timer, but if you’re passionate about egg timers then so be it, enjoy that countdown. When you find yourself in an artisanal grandfather clock festival, keep the egg timer in your pannier.
I’m going to shit on people who actively make my life worse. Cars are regressive.
Alao, I didn’t call them a toaster lmfao
Not a car guy, but it makes more sense to me than people who collect expensive watches. At least a car is fun to drive and goes vroom. A rolex is just some jewelery for guys.
I don’t collect watches, but I appreciate really well designed mechanical/analog devices. I think spending money on brand names is stupid, but I honestly would love an intricate self winding watch.
Not a watch, but check out the mechanics in this cassette player. I love anything like this.
Hell yes, this is art. Just like how to me some cars are art (240z with itbs…hnnnng).
Most cars are boring toasters that society is over reliant on. I myself dont own a boring car since i enjoy driving so I can’t speak to that.
My new rule for myself is everything I bring into my house has to be art. I got this beautiful hand made cutting board the other day. Anything can be art, and it doesn’t all have to be pricy. I threw some pathos I propagated into a soup can the other day. Boom art!
This is mostly me trying to cope with all the AI slop that is slowly eating digital and physical art forms. For me, art is anything human made, and I want to surround myself with it.
I can start by saying that I’m a tech “guy”. The evolution was simple: Puzzles, Lego, bikes, model R/C cars/planes, computers, motorcycles then cars. Add to that motorcycles and cars give you freedom of movement to go anywhere anytime in a whim, it is difficult to not geek about them.
Then, during a brief period of my life I lived in a big (for me) city and had to use the public transport and it was horrible. This only exacerbated my dreams of owning a motor vehicle. Car magazines helped fuel these dreams.
My dad loved sports cars, that didn’t help the addiction ;)
Sounds like you lived in a bad city.
Cars are a symbol of wealth and social status. That’s why people obsess over them, but they will rarely admit this to themselves.
