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Old 03-18-2013, 01:12 PM   #7551
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On my way to the bar with a buddy of mine and two girls in the back. My buddy looks at all my gauges and asks about how the boost works because he sees "boost" on my boost gauge. I'll never make fun of someone for not knowing about cars, we were all there once but I laughed out of how he tried reasoning how boost works.

Him: So how does the boost work do you push like a button or something?
Me: Ohh uhh no it automatically happens when i floor it
Him: Soo when you floor it the nitrous kicks in?
Me: Nonono no nitrous, I have a turbo
Him: (Puzzled look) so how does it go fast then without nitrous?
Me: (Basically I explain the basics of how a turbo works, how pressure builds up because of hot side spinning pulling in air via cold side blah blah blah)
Him: Ohhh ok so when you let off the gas is when the boost kicks in
Me: (Puzzled Look)
Him: Like in need for speed when you push the button your boost goes down just like when you let off the gas

I couldn't hold it in and I bust out laughing, he wasn't grasping it and I felt kinda bad for laughing but he then claimed he was going to take a physics class soon so hopefully that will help him understand better.
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Old 03-18-2013, 04:54 PM   #7552
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"Subarus are Australian cars."
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Old 03-18-2013, 05:28 PM   #7553
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"You have a Subaru and you don't race it?" I said street racing was for high school punks and he stopped talking.
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Old 03-18-2013, 06:25 PM   #7554
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"Subarus are Australian cars."
My friend just said this to me and he knows a lot about cars.
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Old 03-18-2013, 06:44 PM   #7555
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Lol i got the same thing once! Those are made in Australia right? lol No just crocodile Dundee!
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Old 03-18-2013, 06:50 PM   #7556
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"Subarus are Australian cars."
Yeah, what the f*ck is up with this? I've heard this too many times for it to be just one person's ignorance and I can't fathom where people got it from. Maybe because Subaru Outback and Outback Steakhouse sound the same?
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Old 03-18-2013, 06:59 PM   #7557
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Yeah, what the f*ck is up with this? I've heard this too many times for it to be just one person's ignorance and I can't fathom where people got it from. Maybe because Subaru Outback and Outback Steakhouse sound the same?
Google "Subaru Paul Hogan"
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Old 03-18-2013, 07:20 PM   #7558
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Yeah, what the f*ck is up with this? I've heard this too many times for it to be just one person's ignorance and I can't fathom where people got it from. Maybe because Subaru Outback and Outback Steakhouse sound the same?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Subaru+Paul+Hogan%22
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Old 03-18-2013, 07:26 PM   #7559
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Old 03-18-2013, 11:30 PM   #7560
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flooring it on the highway passing people with the passengers first time in it, he always tries acting like a bada$$ saying how he's not afraid of anything...

Me: *floors it, accelerates as car gets louder and external wastegate makes noise while passing cars*

Him: What the #%*#! Holy @&$%! Christ slow the %#@& down were going to #%*£ing die! $%#€£¥•*^%^€£¥€£>%#&$&$ and so on and so on until I slowed down.

When I did a quick launch and a 1st to 2nd pull and kindly asked me to stop because I was emotionally destroying him.
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Old 03-18-2013, 11:37 PM   #7561
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flooring it on the highway passing people with the passengers first time in it, he always tries acting like a bada$$ saying how he's not afraid of anything...

Me: *floors it, accelerates as car gets louder and external wastegate makes noise while passing cars*

Him: What the #%*#! Holy @&$%! Christ slow the %#@& down were going to #%*£ing die! $%#€£¥•*^%^€£¥€£>%#&$&$ and so on and so on until I slowed down.

When I did a quick launch and a 1st to 2nd pull and kindly asked me to stop because I was emotionally destroying him.
Maybe just emasculating him
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Old 03-20-2013, 01:16 AM   #7562
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omar: you wanna know what i want to do to my car(96 normal mustang not a GT)
me: what?
omar: I wanna bore the heads out bigger, ya know?
me: yea thats cool
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Old 03-20-2013, 03:07 AM   #7563
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Today man asked : is that a v8?

me: No just a little turbo'd 4 banger

him: wow that sounds really good!
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Old 03-20-2013, 04:16 AM   #7564
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Neighbors drove by in a truck and yelled GET a real car.. speed 6 and rex were in the driveway at the time.
Also happened in a Camaro. eh.. Gave him 5 lengths
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Old 03-20-2013, 08:26 AM   #7565
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Recently, I've been going to the car wash often to keep the salt off my roads. Everytime someone there hears my car running, they ask why my rods are knocking. It makes me giggle when no one knows how our engines are naturally tap happy.
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Old 03-20-2013, 08:45 AM   #7566
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omar: you wanna know what i want to do to my car(96 normal mustang not a GT)
me: what?
omar: I wanna bore the heads out bigger, ya know?
me: yea thats cool
Hilarious story about your Subaru!
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Old 03-20-2013, 01:00 PM   #7567
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I was going from my home church to our 2nd campus and had to give our worship pastor a ride...As he's walking towards the car he stares at it funny like he's never seen one. After he gets in I turn the car on (I have a catback) and he says "gosh, what kind of engine is in this thing?"
So i explained to him and he was stunned at the fact it was a 4 banger...
After a while of driving he says "I wouldn't be able to have this car. I'd get too many speeding tickets. How do you do it?"
Me..."if i do anything it'll be in a road that is less public, so i dont get too much attention...do you want to feel what is it that i do?"
Him..."no no no...thank you i believe you"
It made me proud of my subie...still making great impressions
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Old 03-20-2013, 02:20 PM   #7568
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Hilarious story about your Subaru!
HAHAHA!
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Old 03-21-2013, 12:17 AM   #7569
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Just picked up a brand new 2013 WRB base hatch last week and drove it to work.

Coworker#1: Is that your new Hyundai out there?
Me: What?! Its a Subaru!
Coworker#1: Oh sorry, it looks nice though
Coworker#2: Geez way to degrade his car
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Old 03-21-2013, 06:52 AM   #7570
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Edited:

"Why is your glovebox so heavy?"

or

(Sharp turn)
"Wtf, where's your 'oh ****' handle??"


Anyone with an older impreza (93-01) might understand.

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Old 03-21-2013, 02:02 PM   #7571
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Why does your car sneeze? LMAO
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Old 03-21-2013, 03:14 PM   #7572
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This is from when I went beach driving last week.

Just driving down the beach (the beach IS the road) and some drunk guy turns around to see my little Impreza coupe, just cruising by.
When he sees me, he's just like "Hey, how the **** did that guy get here?"

I can understand his confusion, since I was THE ONLY car there, around all lifted trucks/jeeps. I still thought it was funny. A lot of people underestimate Subaru's AWD though.
I was looking through old posts and it seems you have already told this story on my page 231, coincidence...I think not.
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Old 03-21-2013, 03:19 PM   #7573
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I was looking through old posts and it seems you have already told this story on my page 231, coincidence...I think not.
Well ****. I could have sworn I never posted that. I even looked through my old posts to check.
My bad lol.
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Old 03-21-2013, 04:09 PM   #7574
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Now, while I DO get annoyed when CAR people (mechanics/customer service/etc) either at shops or dealerships don't at least have a ballpark idea of what my car is... I don't apply the same rules to everyone I meet.

I really couldn't care less if the general population on the street knows what make/model/year/etc my car is. Just because I care about cars (and even I can't identify them all on the road), doesn't mean others do. Seriously. Would you think it's fair if someone got upset at you for asking what new Ford they drove, and it turned out to be a Chevy? Come on.

I've mistaken plenty of car makes/models if they're either new or I've never seen them before. And Subaru (even though growing), still isn't that big. Get off your high horses.

I mean, yeah, sometimes it's a funny story because of something specific they say or do... but really, if you're just posting because you're upset or unsettled...

*awaiting counter-flame/rant*
no flame suited needed here, im not going to counter-flame, everyone is titled to their own opinion, 1st amendment.

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Regardless if he didn't know what it was, you just made a guy feel stupid for saying you have a nice car. You're a dick.
no flame suit needed here either. yeah maybe I was a dick I should go to hell.
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Old 03-21-2013, 07:19 PM   #7575
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Guy: Oh it's a Subaru? I wouldn't be caught dead in one.
Me: Really? What would you be caught dead in, I'll buy you one.



I follow a guy who cuts me off three times with no turn signal. He stops dead in the middle of a one way, one lane street, then very slowly pulls over and parks, again using no turn signal. So I roll my window down.
Me: Hey your turn signal is broken.
Guy: Umm, no it's not?
Me: Then use it. Jerk. (Tad bit more vulgar than jerk.... Haha)
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