Do you judge people on the car they drive??

esforum · 31-03-2016 02:13AM

Im a live and let live person so I dont judge based on car type..........

unless it has an aftermarket beancan making a really loud exhaust, then the drivers a complete and utter ****wit who should crash and die painfully

Ciderswigger · 31-03-2016 02:17AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I judge people who don't wash their cars.

Actually, I don't judge them, I just think they're cnuts.

Mine gets washed when it rains...

StudentDad · 31-03-2016 02:20AM

Nah I don't care what car anyone else has, I only care about how it's driven.

Don't get me wrong I was on a motorway over the weekend and I was passed by a very nice Audi. I don't know the exact model, but it wasn't a run of the mill yoke that's usually about. I did feel a pang of jealousy. One day I'll have something like that

SD

MacauDragon · 31-03-2016 02:43AM

The public do. Yes.

Theres been social psych experiments done where a cheap car and an expensive car are driven in the exact same moronic way.

The cheap car consistently received more beeps, abuse etc.

The Randy Riverbeast · 31-03-2016 03:07AM

Depends, of its some hatchback that sounds like a jet engine then I will assume you're a ****. If a BMW drives like an asshole I'm not surprised.

harry Bailey esq · 31-03-2016 03:21AM

Im more comfortable on two wheels, so i hate them all

Cathy.C · 31-03-2016 03:59AM

Everyone makes judgements about a person based on the car they drive. You might as well be saying you don't make judgements about people based on the clothes they wear. You do and you know you do, initially at least. It's human nature. Now some judgments are more rational and logical than others and that's what separates reasoned people from the dipsh1ts.

If I see a guy in flash car I will make the judgement that he has money and is financially successful. For all I know though, he could be leasing the car or just a well dressed thief but I will make that initial judgement nonetheless, can't help it. See a woman in a beat up people carrier and I will assume she has kids but struggles to make ends meet. Young guy in a souped up Micra and I'm thinking he's from a working class area and may still be in the process of ringing around looking for someone to quote him. Bald middle aged guy in a Boxster and I'd put money on it that his kids have left for college and his wife joined them.

There are some good judgments people make too though. Knowing someone has quite a bit of money and yet seeing them choose to drive a reasonable priced car would most likely have me seeing as them not being too bothered about material possessions. The thing about judgements on such things as cars though is that they are really only relevant when you know very little about someone, as once most people garner more information about a person, the type of car they drive becomes all but irrelevant, as they only ever made that judgement as they knew little if anything about them to begin with.

Optimalprimerib · 31-03-2016 05:00AM

I judge the **** out of people on the cars they drive, but reserve the hate on how they drive them. Here is a snippet:

01-06 1L car: first time driver. Could be a hot chick. have a quick peek.
Mini: Superficial female who values appearance over anything else or metro sexual/homosexual male. more than likely a hairdresser.
Mercedes/BMW: 10-16: Image conscious, puts value in style and comfort.
Any year lower: Polish
Qashqui : bought the car for their new baby thinking it offered a more spacious, safer drive, when it really offers neither.
06 sante fe/Kia equivelant: "rich" during the boom (not anymore).
Ford Focus: Billy Everybody.

31-03-2016 06:24AM

3 series Beemer, a few years old = 32 year old Garda.

If female driving, girlfriend of 32 year old Garda.

Hyundai Coupe, Rav4 = hairdresser, male or female.

Peugeot 206 = nurse

diomed · 31-03-2016 06:45AM

Mini, Renault Clio, any car with a small engine that looks like a sportscar -> young female
BMW -> get outta my way, I'm overtaking.
Audi -> up themselves
Ford -> rural Ireland

desertcircus · 31-03-2016 07:01AM

As a cyclist, the only rule I follow regarding different makes of car is the following: be wary of BMWs. About half of all idiotic and dangerous moves I see while cycling are done in BMWs.

genericguy · 31-03-2016 07:23AM

desertcircus wrote: »

As a cyclist, the only rule I follow regarding different makes of car is the following: be wary of BMWs. About half of all idiotic and dangerous moves I see while cycling are done in BMWs.

Watch out for me so, cos I despise cyclists.

stefanovich · 31-03-2016 07:34AM

kneemos wrote: »

In regards wealth or personality?

Plenty of very well off folk driving very ordinary cars.

And plenty of not so well off people drive fancy cars (at least on the outside). Inside it's no spec 1.6D

stefanovich · 31-03-2016 07:35AM

Deleted User wrote: »

3 series Beemer, a few years old = 32 year old Garda.

If female driving, girlfriend of 32 year old Garda.

Hyundai Coupe, Rav4 = hairdresser, male or female.

Peugeot 206 = nurse

With the beemer it really does depend on the engine size. Anything 2.5 litre or greater? Polish.

gramar · 31-03-2016 07:39AM

BMW driver - probably a knob. Don't indicate? Knob status confirmed.
Indicates - All is redeemed.

agent graves · 31-03-2016 07:47AM

PandaPoo wrote: »

I remember going on a first date and staying the night in his house
He offered me a lift home in the shaggin wagon. It was a red fiat panda I did smile, and gave him a bit of friendly slagging. I can't even drive so who am I to judge.

now i am not one to judge but........

ohmplate · 31-03-2016 07:51AM

I judge anyone driving a jeep or jeeplike monstrosity around Dublin exclusively as a complete sap. Not only do they slow everyone down because the streets are too small. They are the vehicle equivalent of wearing wellies and bringing your shotgun down Grafton Street for a stroll.

whisky_galore · 31-03-2016 08:10AM

New Mini/New VW Beetle - Daddy's little girl.

Older, but well kept Micra - Pensioner, I'm going to be stuck behind this for quite some time....

Older large saloon car, driven like it was stolen - Eastern European guy.

Wanderer78 · 31-03-2016 08:13AM

ohmplate wrote:

I judge anyone driving a jeep or jeeplike monstrosity around Dublin exclusively as a complete sap. Not only do they slow everyone down because the streets are too small. They are the vehicle equivalent of wearing wellies and bringing your shotgun down Grafton Street for a stroll.

Woohoo shotguns allowed on Grafton st nowadays. No need to be hiding it now.

.....seriously couldn't care less about cars. It's just a thing

whisky_galore · 31-03-2016 08:16AM

pebbles21 wrote: »

They should call some new model a Banger ..Say a Ford Banger ..has a ring to it

Still wouldn't be as ridiculous as calling something a 'Duster'...I just think of the thing for cleaning school blackboards when I see one of those.

smurgen · 31-03-2016 08:17AM

No,it's a metal box made to go from a to b.

jimgoose · 31-03-2016 08:21AM

No, but some people are well-paid to judge people based on the cars they drive. For example, if the car they were driving was the one without any tax or insurance doing 90MPH on an N-road, Mick Patwell used to judge the living shit out of them. :pac:

dudara · 31-03-2016 08:27AM

As someone said earlier, I judge people on HOW they drive, not what they drive. Ignorance and idiocy comes in all shapes and sizes.

kirving · 31-03-2016 08:27AM

I don't judge people on their car, I judge people on the tyres the put on it.

Newish executive saloon with cheap Chinese tyres? More image conscious than concerned about their kids safety. Probably don't service the car until it stops dead either.

whisky_galore · 31-03-2016 08:29AM

ohmplate wrote: »

I judge anyone driving a jeep or jeeplike monstrosity around Dublin exclusively as a complete sap. Not only do they slow everyone down because the streets are too small. They are the vehicle equivalent of wearing wellies and bringing your shotgun down Grafton Street for a stroll.

I don't mind a 4 wd, splattered with cow sh*te with a towbar, at least it performs a useful rufty-tufty function...seeing 4wds used as shopping/kiddie transport seems such a waste of horsepower and without a towbar makes it look emasculated.

jimgoose · 31-03-2016 08:37AM

whisky_galore wrote: »

I don't mind a 4 wd, splattered with cow sh*te with a towbar, at least it performs a useful rufty-tufty function...seeing 4wds used as shopping/kiddie transport seems such a waste of horsepower and without a towbar makes it look emasculated.

The usual reason given for the popularity of large 4x4s among the school-run gang is being high-up over other drivers and surrounded by plenty of metal, for "safety". The trouble is this strategy is rather like that of nuclear deterrent insofar as it works best when yours is the only one. When not, you might well win any scuffles that develop but there'll be a hell of a mess. The fact that these things are more difficult to see properly out of, less roomy and much more likely to turn over than something like a Zafira or a Focus estate seems to be lost on them, and that's before you get to the bowel-evacuating urban fuel consumption. :pac:

osarusan · 31-03-2016 08:50AM

Imported our own car when we moved from Japan.

13 years old but hit 50,000km just yesterday.

I didn't know until after we moved that it's a 'granny car' here apparently. Then I realised I didn't care at all anyway.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 31-03-2016 08:58AM

Absolutely. You're much more likely to see a car from a premium German marque outside Avoca or Donnybrook Fair than some ancient Japanese deathtrap. And much more likely to see a Nissan Nail in Coffin parked badly in the sprawling carparks of the local Aldi or Lidl.

People with more money buy better cars.

whisky_galore · 31-03-2016 09:14AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Absolutely. You're much more likely to see a car from a premium German marque outside Avoca or Donnybrook Fair than some ancient Japanese deathtrap. And much more likely to see a Nissan Nail in Coffin parked badly in the sprawling carparks of the local Aldi or Lidl.

People with more money buy better cars.

They all have to pass NCTs, the 'deathtrap' days are over.

A battered panel here and there does not a deathtrap make.

jimgoose · 31-03-2016 09:17AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

...And much more likely to see a Nissan Nail in Coffin parked badly in the sprawling carparks of the local Aldi or Lidl...

That was true around ten years ago. Nowadays Liddlyaldi car-parks are full of BMWs, XC90s, Mercs and Jaaags.

Do you judge people on the car they drive??

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