Reverse night time car identification game shame

[Rawwr]

Ok, so I do this nerdy thing of trying to identify cars purely by the shape of their headlights at night. It often surprises me at quite how awesome I am and that I should probably get some sort of medal for my nerdiness.

However, I'm never able to distinguish between a 997 and a MINI at night and this makes me want to cry.

[soad]

Woudn't worry bout it, i'm sure you can improve some.

[Rawwr]

I have a long road ahead of me.

[Hughesie]

Rawwr said:

However, I'm never able to distinguish between a 997 and a MINI at night and this makes me want to cry.

Really - i always find the Mini lights are much higher than a porker and on that basis generally get it right.

Yes, i play this game too.

[Fun Bus]

Aren't the Mini rear lights vertical and a 997 horizontal? Or is it that the 997 rear lights are grouped?

Off to Google images...

[Hughesie]

He said headlights, not rear clusters

[Rawwr]

Yeah, has to be headlights. You have to identify the car as it comes up behind you in order that you can get confirmation when it overtakes

[Hughesie]

Rawwr said:

Yeah, has to be headlights. You have to identify the car as it comes up behind you in order that you can get confirmation when it overtakes

Ahh right, as pretty much nothing gets past me, you must be slow, i play it as they are coming towards me

[Fun Bus]

Hughesie said:

He said headlights, not rear clusters

Oh yeah. I'll read the key word in a thread properly next time...

Doh!

[Rawwr]

Hughesie said:

Ahh right, as pretty much nothing gets past me, you must be slow, i play it as they are coming towards me

I'm typically driving a 12-year old automatic Mondeo. You can see why I play it my way

If I'm on the Fireblade, the game changes to 'WTF was that I just passed with a 100mph differential'.

[powwerr]

Rawwr said:

However, I'm never able to distinguish between a 997 and a MINI at night and this makes me want to cry.

are you ghey??

new focus and 207/307 are hard to distinguish for me though

[Papa Hotel]

Won't the Mini have those stupid foglightish sidelights underneath the main beams?

[hornetrider]

Papa Hotel said:

Won't the Mini have those stupid foglightish sidelights underneath the main beams?

You beat me to it. OP - epic fail!!11!!oneone1!

[Hughesie]

hornetrider said:

Papa Hotel said:

Won't the Mini have those stupid foglightish sidelights underneath the main beams?

You beat me to it. OP - epic fail!!11!!oneone1!

Point of order - with the exception of the new DRL's, 997's have a small light in a similar place - however the Mini's are round and the 997's are small rectangles.

[Balmoral Green]

Rawwr said:

It often surprises me at quite how awesome I am

I know exactly how you feel.

[ajprice]

We had a similar thing with how good different rear reflectors were last weekend driving back from Southampton. Generally VW's were good, with reflectors in the bottoms of the bumpers, Jaguar XF was rubbish, with the reflector across the top of the lights and too high to be in a headlight beam. The things you do when not having the radio on to avoid hearing the news of the F1 results

[mat205125]

I usually prefer driving my local roads at night as you get a better idea of what's coming up ahead from the beams of the oncoming cars giving warning before they come around a bend.

That said, one of my most trouser filling moments was at night when approaching an oncoming vehicle in the distance. The car was some way off in the distance, and should have left plenty of room to straight line the "S" kink in the road immediately infront of me ...... Thing is, those pesky early Land Rovers are actually a lot closer than they appear at night, with their headlights so close together :yike:

[powwerr]

ajprice said:

The things you do when not having the radio on to avoid hearing the news of the F1 results

you should get yourself one of those new fangled electronic thingies

i think its called a cd player.

[Hughesie]

powwerr said:

ajprice said:

The things you do when not having the radio on to avoid hearing the news of the F1 results

you should get yourself one of those new fangled electronic thingies

i think its called a cd player.

or join the 21st century and use an iPod

[ajprice]

Hughesie said:

powwerr said:

ajprice said:

The things you do when not having the radio on to avoid hearing the news of the F1 results

you should get yourself one of those new fangled electronic thingies

i think its called a cd player.

or join the 21st century and use an iPod

That option was available with the iPhone, but the contents of my iPhone albums were not compatible with my father's musical taste