Your Favourite Car

[theSovietConnection]

Are you hoping to be a master thief?
Because that's the only obtainable job that I can think of which would allow me to have one.

what would that job be?

on topic: ferrari 458 italia

Without going into much more detail, it is a very well paying job working security.

 

[Wintermoot]

either the DMc Delorean or the AE86 Trueno

 

[Private Custard]

Yo Escapists. Simple question "What's your favorite car?"

For me it's the mini cooper. Gotta love me a classic.

Oddly enough, I own one (well, it's not a Cooper, but it's a mini, and most people don't know the difference). It's my daily driver most of the time.

As for my favorite, though... a certain world-record breaker for a street-legal dragster from 1967... I have all of the parts picked out for a kit build of one, totaling about $66,000

A man can dream, right?

Aahh, the 427, beautiful. Keep dreaming and one day it will happen, the kits aren't out of reach.

My Dad's built nine of them over the years, all good kits, none of that Pilgrim, Sumo or AK bullshit.

His current one is powered by a Ford Windsor 6.0l V8 with around 420bhp. His will includes me getting his car..........I've told him not to let me cook for him, ever!

A few demo models from the makers, last time I popped in to say hello.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Aston Martin DB5, Aston Martin DBS, Jaguar E-Type or a Mini Cooper.

 

[Berethond]

Without going into much more detail, it is a very well paying job working security.

I see, you'll be batting for the "other team".

 

[StBishop]

2010 Camaro or the 1979 Corvette (I like the body style)

Corvette is not a car model, just so you know.

How is it not the model? It is a Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray. Granted, I don't know anything about cars, but huh? Wouldn't Sting Ray be the body type or style?

Well, yes you're right it is a car model, I didn't mean that it was a brand or anything, but you can't just say, I want a Corvette. It's like saying, I want a Lancer. It's too vague.

I suppose the only comparison is going into a store and saying "I want Call of Duty", if all the CoD games came out in the same year.

Does it make sence?

Yes, the Corvette is a model of car. Chevrolet is the "make" and Corvette is the "model." "Stingray" was the nickname of second-generation Corvettes from 1962-67. I'm not even a Corvette fan (don't really like them) and I know that.

And no. It doesn't make sense. It's perfectly acceptable to say "I want a Corvette" because, besides Chevrolet, who makes the Corvette?

The answer to that question is nobody. Unless somebody knows absolutely nothing about cars, you don't have to say "Chevrolet Corvette" because about 99% of anybody in the western world knows who makes them.

The same can be said about Mustangs. Ever near of a Mustang that was not from Ford (Shelby doesn't count because they are an after-market company that retrofits Ford Mustangs)? A non-Toyota Celica? Non-Jaguar XJR? Or to use your example, non-Mitsubishi Lancer?

It's like saying "Going to London." Now, without looking to Wikipedia or trying to sound like a hair-splitting troll, can you tell me any city named London that is not the capital of England? How about a similar formula for New York (that's not the global city and largest city in the United States)? Los Angeles (huge ass city in California and second largest in the US)? Paris? Madrid? Tokyo? Hong Kong? Do you really have to specify what country they are in?

To use your argument of places. I would argue that saying "I'm getting a Corvette" is like saying "I'm going to Texas", or "I'm going to California". Rather than "I'm going to Austin" (Sorry, I'm an Aussie and can only think of one city in Texas off the top of my head) or "I'm Going to San Francisco".

I was simply having a whinge.

 

[brtshstel]

To use your argument of places. I would argue that saying "I'm getting a Corvette" is like saying "I'm going to Texas", or "I'm going to California". Rather than "I'm going to Austin" (Sorry, I'm an Aussie and can only think of one city in Texas off the top of my head) or "I'm Going to San Francisco".

I was simply having a whinge.

No, you're wrong. either you don't know the difference between make and model, or you don't know how the city and state thing works in the US.

Saying "I'm going to Texas" is like saying "I'm getting a Chevrolet." That's somewhat vague: there are lots of cities in Texas, just as there are a lot of models made by Chevrolet.

"I'm going to Astin" is more specific because anyone familiar with American cities knows that Austin is a city in Texas even if you don't say "Texas."

Same goes for cars: "I'm getting a Corvette" works because it is a specific model that is exclusively Chevrolet, and is so well-known to anyone even remotely interested in auto culture that you don't have to say "Chevrolet."