Negative comments/remarks thrown at your beautiful car?

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by gravitylover

Oh she'll ride in it but she holds on for dear life and cringes regularly. Ooh boy does she hate the seat belt too but that's because she's short and it cuts across her neck. You should've heard the chortles this afternoon when a Prius dropped us leaving a traffic light and then we got passed by a minivan immediately after before I even got to 3rd while she's sitting there saying see what happens when you get a toy car

Find a new wife. And OP should have backed up to kids then burnt out to throw gravel at them

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by pfaffendorn

So FI or not, take one of those "friends" for a spin on the curviest road you know and let them have it until they're ready to puke and piss themselves, and then let them out on the side of the road. If they are that uninterested in learning just why you bought your car, they can't be much in the way of genuine friends.

That is exactly what I did to the one guy at work that said "not powerful enough".
He apologised.

[Clipdat]

Originally Posted by pfaffendorn

So FI or not, take one of those "friends" for a spin on the curviest road you know and let them have it until they're ready to puke and piss themselves, and then let them out on the side of the road. If they are that uninterested in learning just why you bought your car, they can't be much in the way of genuine friends.

[ort895]

Originally Posted by Summerwolf

Still a four cylinder....

you seem like a joy

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by ort895

you seem like a joy

Oh he is...

[ort895]

but yeah, owning this car is a trip. People always seem to go out of their way to make sure i know that my car isn't "fast". Ive been called a child for driving a "childs car".
Even when i bought it about a year and a half ago a guy driving by in his G35 yelled out "its a piece of shit don't buy it".

[themadscientist]

I'm the one always saying it's not fast. People are shocked, but it's a fact. I didn't buy it to drag race. I bought it because it's affordable, practical (granted, by my definition of that word) it's dead sexy and it has such a great balanced character. The thing cuts like a razor blade and challenges me to find its limit. I love it.

A guy in a G35 questioning the substance of another car, that's funny.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-uUh0o0-bY"]FAIL g35 burn out - YouTube[/ame]

[ort895]

That's the thing though, i know my car isn't a rocket, that's not why i bought it. But people just have to make sure they tell me, its pretty comical.

[Da Breeze]

I have received only compliments except for two instances. Some dude pulled up next to my wife and I in a pickup truck and asked me "so do you actually like this car?" I said yes, and drove away.

The other was when I was looking for a parking space at a hotel we were staying at. There was a restaurant next to it and some drunk teenagers raising hell in the parking lot saw me and started saying things like "do a drift" and some other stupid crap. I just calmly walked into the hotel and had the hotel staff call the cops, which they were only too glad to do since these clowns were being obnoxious to everyone.

So one slightly rude question and some drunken fools talking smack is no big deal compared to many more compliments and some outright fawning over it.

[CB750F]

After reading these 4 pages & all the 'slow' comments I would only have these 3
questions to ask these people.

1- Ever drive a go-kart?
2- Did u have fun?
3- Was it fast?

Let them figure it out.

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by themadscientist

I'm the one always saying it's not fast. People are shocked, but it's a fact. I didn't buy it to drag race. I bought it because it's affordable, practical (granted, by my definition of that word) it's dead sexy and it has such a great balanced character. The thing cuts like a razor blade and challenges me to find its limit. I love it.

A guy in a G35 questioning the substance of another car, that's funny.

OMFG, at one point you could tell from the pad sound he had the ebrake up and traction control still on....

[mav1178]

Much like life in general, I don't let anyone else's thoughts, comments, or insults dictate how I enjoy my car.

-alex

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by mav1178

Much like life in general, I don't let anyone else's thoughts, comments, or insults dictate how I enjoy my car.

-alex

If everybody loved the same thing then this would be a boring world! I am not sure I would have even bought the car if it was a 200K a year volume vehicle. I do not for one minute expect everybody else to love it any more then I expect everybody to love minivans or Mustangs.

[ap5512]

Originally Posted by purearsenal

I recently saw a post in the FR-S section of the forum about the compliments that people have received because of their car. However, I don't think I've ever seen a post about any negative comments that people have might got from random strangers, friends, family, etc .

About 1 month into owning my BRZ, i pulled up into a little shopping center so that I could buy some french fries. It was packed so I found an open space right where a group of middle schoolers were hanging out. As soon as i was half way into the burger joint, they yelled out "daaaaaaaaamn thats a gay ass car". At first I didn't think nothing of it assuming they weren't referring to me. I was wrong. They said the same phrase again as I turned on my car, as I was leaving the parking area and just to make sure that I knew they were talking about me, they decided to to yell "daaaaaamn thats a gay ass car, the red one leaving over there". Yup, my first outspoken haters came in the form of little 13 year old middle schoolers. So does anyone else have a hater story to tell?

LOL I love how the people with no cars are the ones talking trash.

Also, I would have drove up next to them and said "my gay car wants to bang you."