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Bavarian Motorist · 03-14-2007, 07:36 AM

I can only scare someone in first gear... other than that ..

Brucelee · 03-14-2007, 08:03 AM

."Besides I don't own enough gold chains to drive a Vette and prefer crew-neck tee-shirts to wife-beaters."

Well, since you drive a "chick car" and a "Poor Man's Porsche," you can't really hurl insults can you?

Just kidding! See how stereotypes work, there is always a retort!

Perfectlap · 03-14-2007, 08:06 AM

Scared??? that's for chicks man.

I rode in a nervous GT3 going fast IN THE RAIN. Was I scared?
No way man..I have hair on my chest and drink my vodka straight!

If I trust the skill of the driver and I'm in a genuine sports car with good tires
and a stable platform, there is no reason to be scared at any speed.

p.s.
the funny thing about stereotypes is that they are generally true, that's how they became a stereotype to begin with.
Sure 911 Cabs aren't for homosexuals as TopGear's Jeremy Clarkson contends
but guess what Vincenzo my gay hairdresser drives? 911 Cab (tip).
And the last guy I saw driving a C6 in SoHo was wearing what?
moustache and gold chain playing some awwwwful cheesy 'freestyle' dance music from the 80's. And not far from Mr C6 was a Range Rover being driven by a guy who looked allot like MasterP.

SD987 · 03-14-2007, 08:20 AM

Yawn...

OK Plap, you're the best car driver on the Internet..congratulations, you can pick up your award on the way out.

Perfectlap · 03-14-2007, 08:21 AM

haha...no I'm the best passenger!!
that's the whole point, scaring your passenger doesn't prove anything about the car.

SD987 · 03-14-2007, 08:54 AM

You can put this one next to your detailing trophies...

Perfectlap · 03-14-2007, 10:23 AM

previous winners are exempt from that trophy. You should've seen
Mom Perfectlap behind the wheel of the Volvo 240 D. I haven't blinked
since I was eight.

SD987 · 03-14-2007, 07:37 PM

Well, since you drive a "chick car" and a "Poor Man's Porsche," you can't really hurl insults can you?

Now see, that's the kind of thing I'd expect to hear from a Vette owner.

The chick car label is applied to a broad range of vehicles including a convertible Vette, I mean for crying out loud a convertible Vette is actually an accessory that's available for Barbie dolls !

And the "Poor Man's Porsche" insult totally misses the point of my previous post. If someone can afford a Porsche Boxster, than they can afford a Vette (or in the case of many Boxster owners, multiple Vettes). So does that make the Vette owner someone who can't even get on the bottom rung of the Porsche ladder? Nah, like I said, it's a matter of choice.

demonz · 03-15-2007, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

my gay hairdresser drives? 911 Cab (tip).

What does it say to have a gay male hairdresser?

(not that there's anything wrong with it.) I kid. I kid!!

Only a woman cuts my hair

Adam · 03-15-2007, 08:58 PM

Stereotypes are almost always incorrect and misinformed, my dad owns two vettes SD987 and not one gold chain. A 66 and a 99 to be exact. Never seen him wear a wife beater either.

Bavarian Motorist · 03-15-2007, 10:16 PM

I'm sure it's different in other places, but around here... Porsche and Corvette owners seem to be the most calm and docile drivers on the road and neither show any signs of being uncivilized in any way or form.

I am the exception. I disgrace Boxster owners

SD987 · 03-15-2007, 10:24 PM

I don't know Bav, I think Porsche and Vette owners are like Siamese fighting fish. Docile on their own, but put them in the same bowl (or at the same stoplight) and all hell has been known to break loose.

1JB · 03-16-2007, 04:42 AM

I wouldn't buy a Corvette personally but I do like them I also know a few Corvette owners and they just like a different style car than I do. They don't bash Porsche and don't bash their vettes. I like them and they like me. Stereotypes and perpetuated by imature posts such as a few of those set out in this thread. Take a hard look at yourself before you accuse others of being the instigator. If there were no Corvettes in the world and the wide variety of owners they present it would be a pretty boring place.

Bavarian Motorist · 03-16-2007, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SD987

I don't know Bav, I think Porsche and Vette owners are like Siamese fighting fish. Docile on their own, but put them in the same bowl (or at the same stoplight) and all hell has been known to break loose.

Well, for the sake of sparing ourselves major embarrassment, let's stay away from Corvettes at stop lights