*vette spins out and wipes out a crowd of people on the sidewalk…
Not just any quarter mile, The Quarter Mile.
Me, in a CR400AF:
(Nothing, I wasn’t stopped by the stop light, so I sped past at 350 mph, only spent about 0.13s in earshot of this conversation, and covered ¼ mile in 2.57 seconds—about three times faster than Tesla Bro’s hoopty. Also I was insulated from the sound of their inane conversation by the sound isolation and also by the sound of the aerodynamic noise that the sound isolation was actually installed to block)
I like trains.
Can’t I hate both of them?
What has that guy’s mom’s 2015 Nissan Altima done to you?
I hear assholes in muscle cars going by outside my window a few times a day, and their cars are so loud following traffic at like 30-40 mph. I would get it if they were racing or something, but if your car is doing just normal low-level driving why does it need to make so much noise?
It feels like if a person walked from one room to another while panting and gasping for air like they just did an intense sprint. I would be more likely to call an ambulance than hi-five them.
“What is that loud and slow car?”
Oof! That’s gotta hurt!
That’s actually my fault.
I stole all their catalytic converters to pay a lobbying group to get the local politicians to fund mass transit. Instead the batards passed vaguely worded noise ordinances that get selectively enforced by so-called public servants to target certain groups.
Sorry about that.What they should really have is bypass mufflers, where that loudness only comes at high RPM.
Sadly, most do not…
I had almost that exact vette when I was in high school. It was slow, but looked cool and was oddly decent on insurance.
My ex’s parents had a vette when we were ~20 and they let her drive it. It was decently speedy, but nothing to write home about.
A friend of mine has a Vette. It might be fast, I have no idea - he drives it like he’s afraid to go near the speed limit.
Turns out it was about being loud and getting noticed all along. The really loud ones just like to annoy people because of psychpath tendencies. That has been studied.
Like those kids that put whatever it is in their Hondas or Nissans to make them sound like a lawn mower? Fucking obnoxious.
And what about all those booming stereos?
That sounds interesting, got a source I can read?
My dad did the exact opposite of this when he had a Corvette. Some guys pulled up to the stop light, got him to roll his window down, and said, “Hey man, want to race?”
His reply. “Why?”
I witnessed something kinda similar.
I was the passenger in an old beaten small panel van. The driver was a complete jackass, but I needed the lift. He pulled up next to an Alfa Romeo 159, and asked for a race. The driver of the Alfa just looked… confused. He gave us a very potent “I cannot sanction your buffoonery” look and rolled his window back up. My driver yelled at him. I sunk into my seat in an overwhelming combination of first and second hand embarrassment.
It’s like asking someone with running shoes if he wants to run…
That’s when you surprise 'em with the crowbar. haha sucker, better luck next time.
I…kinda love Corvette Man
I kinda wish I had that energy.
Just wondering if everyone here feels the same about obnoxiously loud imports? Honda, Nissan, Subaru… these cars have kits available to make them sound every bit as obnoxious and loud. Done hate them as much as the American muscle car guy?
The same for stereos. Passing through apartments complexes blasting whatever fotw annoying bar music at 3:30AM? Just as bad?
Frankly, the backup warning sound from electric cars piss me off too even though they’re not that loud.
Everything that is unnecessarily loud is included.
Car culture is just so sad
Yeah, how dare people have interests that don’t align with my own!
Tbh I look down on any hobby that’s just about owning things
If you work on your own cars cool and neat but if you don’t they’re just really big funko pops
And like I never bring this up to anyone cause I do me best to not be a dickwad but I can’t help but feel a little digusted by collecting hobbies
Idk
i once had my town’s largest collection of Jack In the Box antenna toppers (i had 4) and am personally and deeply offended by this statement
The moment your culture makes you feel any kind of superiority or entitlement to make others feel bad it becomes a problem, no matter the source of those feelings or who it’s directed at.
I mean, this is Lemmy—practically everyone here feels superior to folks who use Twitter/reddit/Meta products/etc.
(Only half /s with this one…)
As a veteran of all these spaces, I feel like Lemmy feels superior for being what reddit was circa 2007, a small, underground but tight-knight community of free-agents and strong, independent thinkers. With less underage sexual abuse material. (As far as I know.)
It’s funny because despite being a site that seems to openly take pride in being further left than reddit, a lot of the people are the exact same people that they hated in reddit; a lot of isolated white male young american gamers with poor social experience, so left to its own devices this site would become a carbon-copy of reddit, warts and all.
feelsis superiorFTFY. ;)
I don’t mind car culture. But I absolutely loathe gun culture, which is sadly a big thing around where I live.
Lots of compensating sports car owners downvoted this lolI retract myself I hadn’t seen it was a Tesla on the right
They can downvote this post in the quarter mile. We literally don’t care.
burnout noises
Going fast for a quarter mile is literally the only thing a Corvette can do, so it’s like if the punch line was a Mustang Guy saying he’s never been able hit a pedestrian.
Huh? Racing corvettes have good records against Ferraris and Porches, going decades back:
Here’s a street corvette keeping pace with a tuned Ariel Atom, a horrifically fast track car, round the nurburgring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZs7Ta2SSk
The “corvette meme” is that they’ll kill you in a crash, not that they’re slow around corners. They are not slow around corners.
I thought Vipers were the more dangerous ones? At least mid 90s ones.
Oh yes. Vipers are death traps, albeit rarer ones.
It’s also a very successful racecar, apparently because the gigantic displacement is advanteous for league detuning (like air restrictors).
Interesting. I do want a 90s one at some point. The aesthetic alone. Love those cars.
I think they used to be famous for spinning out in corners because they didn’t have much electronic help and tend to have inexperienced drivers. The newer corvettes are much more modern.
IIRC mustangs were specifically notorious for this due to their rear solid axle suspensions, though even that is probably down to driver error.
The “inexperienced driver” thing is true though, especially with the higher powered ones.
It’s the lack of camber in their front suspension setup, from what I’ve heard.
The solid rear axle is bad when they hit a bump mid-corner and hop, but it’s the lack of camber in the front tires which makes them especially problematic in spins. It takes cat like reactions to catch a mustang, which very few people have.
I guess the fun of spinning into a ditch or other people is part of the mustang mystique, so it never gets fixed.
That sounds right.
Though really its just so much power on rear wheels that does it. No suspension will save you from the torque breaking the wheels loose gunning it out of a turn.
Yeah, stupid shit is stupid shit.
A better front suspension setup would make the car more forgiving though. Most of it is on Ford for not fixing their setup.
What? Corvettes are one of the best track cars straight off the showroom floor.
I can’t tell if this comic is trying to make the sports car guy or the tesla guy look good, either way I’m not vibing with it.
It’s making fun of the Tesla person, and every bench racer who bags on other cars because they don’t have the numbers to beat a Camry.
Corvette guy is out enjoying his corvette.
I think both are assholes. Maybe that’s the point? People driving cars are assholes? I really dunno.
Oh shit I hadn’t noticed it was a Tesla
Kevin Flynn in his 40s
