your car is the embodiment of who you are. you are a wanker.

I see these things from time to time:

http://images.myride.com/images/vehicle/2008/audi/r8/oem/R8060005_large%5B1%5D_(544x408).jpg

to me, this is a car that pretty much 100% identifies its driver as a wanker. a person who had 100 grand plus to spend on a motor vehicle, and spent it on an audi. a person who wanted to buy a "supercar" and was too much of a pussy to buy a real ferrari. who would buy such a thing?

these, i see a little more often:

http://www.porschepedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/2008-porsche-cayenne.jpg

i can completely understand the impulse to buy a 911 or a cayman, but one of those? it looks like a cross between a 911 bodyshell amateurishly grafted on top of a touareg. you would have to be a complete idiot to own such a machine.

what cars say "i am a wanker" to you, dearest ilx0rs?

so: HUMMER to thread then

chrysler 300

yes! hummer 100%, especially the lookalike-y version, what is it, the h2?

car type is irrelevent, anyone who buys into this notion is a deeb4life

I hate those big bastard things called things like MITSUBISHI WARRIOR, especially when used for nothing more exciting than taking your kids round the corner to school.

high correlation with expensive cars, tho, obv

I had to google "chrysler 300", we get these over here too, I see a lot of them used as taxis for some reason.

Hummer:wanker::Aztek:sub-moron

there's another beefcake nu-muscle car out there and i'm trying to figure out what it is

Maybach anything

luckily no one has ever purchased or driven an Aztek so we're safe

I kind of like the Chrysler 300.

Notable appearances

The Camaro has also made several notable appearances in film. One of the most popular movie Camaros was a black 1967 model driven by actor John Cusack in the 1985 film Better Off Dead.[22] It also appeared in the music video for "Top back" by rapper T.I. featuring Young Dro, Young Jeezy, Big Kuntry and B.G.
Bumblebee depicted as a 1976 and 5th-gen Camaro concept variant.

In addition, the Camaro continues to find its way into modern day fiction. The vehicle mode of the character Bumblebee in the 2007 film, Transformers, is first a 1976 model Camaro[23] and later a fifth-generation concept variant. A modified fifth-generation Camaro reprises the role of Bumblebee in the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

http://www.roadfly.com/new-cars/wp-content/uploads/gallery/2007-audi-tt-press-preview/audi-tt.jpg

I used to see these a lot, I think Patrick Bateman is the target market.

see I actually like the R8, and really don't regard it as a wanker's car. This, otoh,
http://www.channel4.com/4car/media/100-greatest/03-large/55-lamborghini-gallardo.jpg tells me you have a shittonne of money, no imagination and take Top Gear a little too literally.

working as a mercenary valet in Aspen has exposed me to all the wankiest cars and the wanks who wank them

Wow, I bet it has!

The only cars I notice these days are smart cars and I don't think people who drive those are wankers.

i kind of do, those things are bs

the thing is, given the opportunity, I would purchase every single car mentioned on this thread so far

except for the Hummer and the Aztek

pretty much any ott car is appealing in its own way - the idea of actually owning one is pretty ridiculous

btw i drove a full sized original hummer or whatever u call it off road once and it was AMAZING

Pretty much anyone who's ever owned a McLaren F1 is either a complete tosser and/or a drug dealer, and has very probably written the thing off by now.

why dont they put those doors that flip up on regular cars ever

my toyota camry POW

I think the Aztek is kind of hilarious, I can't bring myself to hate it.

"ownership" of this car is so hilarious and douchey, i don't even know

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_fxx

Customers pay $2.5 million, but are only allowed to drive the car on special track days which are approved by Ferrari. After they drive the car, the owners are entitled to brief Ferrari on the car's performance...

FXX owners also participate in Ferrari's testing and brand development programs. As part of the FXX program, the car is maintained by the Ferrari factory. The purpose of this particular program is to allow Ferrari's top customers exclusive access to its most up-to-date technology and to utilize their input in the development of future models. The models are only sold in Europe. Units can be imported, but not owned, in any other continent. The FXX package was reported to cost 1.5 million euros (excluding taxes) (2.1mil USD),[1], including the car and the services provided by Ferrari.

if i were a wealthy wanker u know wtf id be ridin

http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksz8larnNL1qanlclo1_500.jpg

COUNTACH DAMNNNN

the chrysler 300 is definitely a d-bag ride. bmws and audis are the types of cars that cause people to attempt to execute 90 degree hairpin turns in front of children crossing the street, though.

chrysler 300 is so aspirational its sad

oh man, that Countach is my favorite car of all time

narrow your eyes, get glaucoma, and look at it on a moonless night and it might be mistaken for a bentley

hahaha I remember thinking "when did everyone in Boston start buying ugly Bentleys" when the redesigned 300 came out

PROWLER

btw prius drivers are underrated as d-bags

okay Prowler is not correct because the one person I know who owns a Prowler is the exact opposite of a wanker; in fact, he is likely the nicest guy I have ever met

he does have terrible taste in cars tho

he is a motherfucker with some dark secrets

this and any other GM variation of it

http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/2007-cadillac-escalade.jpg

saw a countach on the west side highway a few weeks ago

i have a picture of myself standing in front of a countach somewhere

i hate escalades

Escalades are pretty fucking ugly. Have yet to see one here around town though.

Pashmina, are you my husband? He thinks just the same. Me? Well, I thought the parents of the little boy who is in the same class as my daughter are utter wankers. They drive a Cayenne. (Yes, the school attracts a fuckload of rich wankers.) Urgh. Apparently the little boy is already a little mini wanker (according to my daughter)

What about Range Rovers? Probably not in the US or England, but here it seems a bit pointless to drive in those oversized cars. *shrug* Also the ones who drop their kids off at school all seem to be mummies walking around in size zero Sevens and 666 inch heels.

Still longing for an XC60 tbh.

Around here Range Rovers, and more commonly, Land Rovers, are used for actual work like driving up muddy tracks and towing stacks of sheep, etc.. A few years ago there was a spate of people dropping their kids off to school in huge Lexus 4x4's, but that's stopped now.

Actually I've always wanted a LWB Land Rover, possibly the least wanky vehicle ever.

Around here Range Rovers, and more commonly, Land Rovers, are used for fake work like driving the kids to soccer practice and hauling home groceries from Whole Foods, etc..

i can completely understand the impulse to buy a 911 or a cayman, but one of those? it looks like a cross between a 911 bodyshell amateurishly grafted on top of a touareg. you would have to be a complete idiot to own such a machine.

Driven by nouveau-riche soccer moms for whom the Benz SUV wasn't enough, IME.

Audis are pretty good! But I would only buy a normal everyday Audi not a stupid OTT version.

BMW 1s: wannabe wankers

Audi's are omnipresent here. Most are company cars.

i think i'm gonna start calling people countaches when they act up

i always wanted a Land Rover growing up

The word countach is an exclamation of astonishment in the local Piedmontese language — generally used by men on seeing an extremely beautiful woman. The term is often considered the equivalent of an excited obscenity in English. It can also be considered the verbal equivalent of a wolf-whistle.

Lamborghini Crumpet

lamborghini diduseetheassonthatone

lamborghini damngina

http://foto.autozone.be/fotoseurotax/450/mitsubishi-pajero-lwb-diesel-2003-3987.jpg
Mitsubishi Wanker aka Pajero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero

Around here Range Rovers, and more commonly, Land Rovers, are used for actual work like driving up muddy tracks and towing stacks of sheep, etc.. A few years ago there was a spate of people dropping their kids off to school in huge Lexus 4x4's, but that's stopped now.

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I don't think Lexus makes those any more. What's funny is those LX470s were just a Toyota Land Cruiser in a pearlescent shell with a little wood and fancy headlights. Land Cruisers themselves started off as hearty, awesome trucks in the 80s, then grew popular with the moms as SUVs took off in the mid-90s and people wanted Expeditions and 4Runners for the kids. Lexus was pretty smart to take what was already an expensive SUV and throw an some Lexus sheen onto it.

HAHAHAHA the Pajero - my Argentinian cousin reminds me of the Mitsubishi Masturbator because my Mom had it in the US where it was the Montero. The Pajero also came in a stubby 2-door version too, which was weird because the longer one was already notoriously top-heavy and liable to flip. South America always got weird cars, though, and America got the huge wanky ones.

the only fancy car i really like is the old (now) Jaguar XK8. any Jag is probably a wanker's car but fuck you that shit is art.

(xxpost) The funniest part was that there was one parent who was only something like 4'10" tall, but drove the biggest model of 4x4 that Lexus made.

The only time I recall seeing the Pontiac Aztek in popular media is as Walter White's car in the series Breaking Bad. It's brilliant shorthand for the dweebishness of his character in the first 5 minutes of the pilot.

i just smashed my passenger side mirror today, so apparently i am a person who wants to crush her right hand into pieces in an act of stupid self-destruction. ouch.

xp haha yeah i always thought the Aztek was way too conspicuous not to be deliberately cast

^ I think this of Michael Scott's love for his former Sebring Convertible, and now his PT Cruiser Convertible

don't forget Dwight's 1987 Pontiac Trans Am

lowered honda civic/mitsubishi evo, just to get off from the superrich vehicles of wanky choice.

obviously increased wanker marks if i can hear your 3000bpm beats as you pass

back when I was into cars and car performance and stuff I used to hate Z3s, because you could get better performance from a Miata!

I will point and laugh if you drive past me in one of these

http://www.theautochannel.com/cybercast/laautoshow98/images/bmw_m_coupe.jpg

hatchback versions of all luxury cars are kinda lol because it's like "no wait we don't just care about brands we also care about practicality too, we go to home depot too you know"

Hate to say it, but a lot of Prius owners I know also happen to be wankers, i.e. driving the hybrid to show how responsible they are, "when we go on a real trip, we take the SUV, it's so much comfier", etc.

http://www.newcarpark.com/blog/images1/2008-Dodge-Viper-1.jpg

"I am a 9-year-old boy"

http://www.mylightninglimos.com/Santa_Clarita_Escalade/Escalade-Limo.jpg

"Go ahead and slam my balls in the car door, I don't need them"

i never ever see them, but i wouldn't make fun of someone who bought a maserati. cuz i think they're cool.

http://media.il.edmunds-media.com/maserati/granturismo/2010/fe/2010_maserati_granturismo_f34_fe_1_717.jpg

it's possible that you might actually become cooler if you drive one.

http://www.johnehrenfeld.com/maserati-quattroporte.jpg

"I am a 9-year-old boy"

see that kind of applies to the chrysler 300 drivers i've been meeting (and working with) down in the rio grande valley, on and off over the past year. far from thinking they're d-bags, my impression has been that they're really overgrown little boys - guys with all the visual signifiers of thug macho going, but mostly adorable, sweetheart personalities at the same time. these guys all have kids and wives and jobs and a mastery of valley Spanglish, and it doesn't look to me like they're trying to prove anything phallic so much as get away with owning and driving and customizing a favorite toy.

hatchback versions of all luxury cars are kinda lol because it's like "no wait we don't just care about brands we also care about practicality too, we go to home depot too you know"

I have to admit that I'm considering a Cadillac CTS Wagon as my next car because I'm carrying shit around all the time (limiting factor now is being able to carry a couple guitars, an amp, a keyboard, and potentially a passenger to gigs). I think crossover SUVs are an abomination so I'm going with a wagon.

What's ILX think is a good car? I mean.. to me, all cars are either too flash or boring - there doesn't seem to be much middle-ground IMO

http://www.westfalia.org/images/californiacoasting.jpg

For the price of a single Audi R8 I can get the following...

http://www.newcarbuyingguide.com/images/articles/reviews/bmw/2002BMW03.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1108/1372811681_7a0fca804c.jpg

and have $$$$$ leftover for a mechanic on speed-dial, an anonymous daily driver car (currently unneeded since I walk to work), insurance on both of them, and the comfort of knowing that I'm not another jackass Audi driver.

Ooops... Meant to include this in with the other two:

http://www.armybase.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/land-rover-defender.jpg

What's ILX think is a good car? I mean.. to me, all cars are either too flash or boring - there doesn't seem to be much middle-ground IMO

― never acid again, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:34 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://randombuzz.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/homersimpsoncar.gif

What's ILX think is a good car? I mean.. to me, all cars are either too flash or boring - there doesn't seem to be much middle-ground IMO

It all depends: where you live, whether or not you need to carry an entire family, carry stuff, what the weather is like, how much you can afford, etc.

Apparently I drive an "abomination", so my opinion on this is invalid.

In addition, the Camaro continues to find its way into modern day fiction. The vehicle mode of the character Bumblebee in the 2007 film, Transformers, is first a 1976 model Camaro[23] and later a fifth-generation concept variant. A modified fifth-generation Camaro reprises the role of Bumblebee in the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

goddamn it I finally got angry at these Michael Bay Transformers movies

goddamn Elvis, those are some good choices

I was behind one of these tonight as it drove right down the middle of two lanes for several miles.

http://montanaarmoredvehicles.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/2000-Ford-Excursion-00114051990002.51122640.jpg
wanker

http://mrbarlow.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/traffic_jam.jpg

wankers

shit

lol at the one car who got away

if I were him I'd start doing donuts or ghostriding or something and honk my horn really loudly, maybe shotgun a few beers too

carser soze

"i never ever see them, but i wouldn't make fun of someone who bought a maserati. cuz i think they're cool"

Saw one of these in Tokyo.

I realize many will find crossovers crap, but I would like one. Having two kids and having to drive more and more... crossovers seem like fun/practical cars.

i would be the wanker that would buy the altra camper car from tati's trafic:

http://imcdb.org/images/004/895.jpg

http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Charles/trafic-hulot-camper.jpg

here in HK it's not uncommon to see ferraris and lambos and maseratis and bentley's on the street - what's lol is that owners of these cars paid a 100% tax on them, i.e. they could have bought two lambos anywhere else in the world for what they paid for one. also a parking space in downtown HK can cost more than a medium sized apartment per month. so these guys are wankers x2