Cars are like the human body?

[DuckDuck]

If you think about it: Have we not made cars the image of ourselves? and in what way?

Example:

oil pump would be the heart
ecu the brain
wiring loom the nerves
engine our metabolism????


any more?

Duck

[SystemParanoia]

wallet?

[DuckDuck]

SystemParanoia said:

wallet?

Glovebox

[SystemParanoia]

so its empty then

[forzaminardi]

People carriers are like the fat slow and increasingly popular versions of normal cars/people.

[Riley Blue]

OP - WTF did you have for lunch to come up with such an idea?

[DuckDuck]

Riley Blue said:

OP - WTF did you have for lunch to come up with such an idea?

I was walking the dog and musing

[Deranged Granny]

Engine is surely the heart.
Lights are eyes
Horn is mouth
Bonnet is forehead
Wheels are legs

Exhaust is... obvious

[DuckDuck]

Deranged Granny said:

Engine is surely the heart.
Lights are eyes
Horn is mouth
Bonnet is forehead
Wheels are legs

Exhaust is... obvious

fuel tank - stomach
mouth/lips= grill/bumper

Horn= farts

[Captain Muppet]

DuckDuck said:

Have we not made cars the image of ourselves?

Yes, we have not made cars the image of ourselves.

>counts arms and legs on a car, feels confident<

[DuckDuck]

Deranged Granny said:

Engine is surely the heart.
Lights are eyes
Horn is mouth
Bonnet is forehead
Wheels are legs

Exhaust is... obvious

Reason i thought the oil pump should be the heart is if it stops (look at the bmw oil pump thread) then the whole car stops damages the engine in seconds then the car becomes a donor car.

The engine consumes fuel from the stomach. depending on the quality the car goes well or not. Seeeee

[Alfanatic]

While there are some similarities with faces from both front and rear, I can't say I've ever thought of the car as being similar to the human body. Yes, it has a pump to circulate vital liquids, it has one big muscle to make it move, it has a brain and nervous system, early ones had an endoskeleton and modern ones have an exoskeleton, but it shares much of that with just about any living macroorganism I can think of.

[simoid]

I found a banana up my exhaust once.

[DuckDuck]

Alfanatic said:

While there are some similarities with faces from both front and rear, I can't say I've ever thought of the car as being similar to the human body. Yes, it has a pump to circulate vital liquids, it has one big muscle to make it move, it has a brain and nervous system, early ones had an endoskeleton and modern ones have an exoskeleton, but it shares much of that with just about any living macroorganism I can think of.

When people designed cars at first the car was just transport as time has gone on designers talk about and incorporate masculine and famine features; how the car relates to the human.

[Zyp]

simoid said:

I found a banana up my exhaust once.

Is that the image of yourself?

[Changedmyname]

simoid said:

I found a banana up my exhaust once.

Now that has a lot of meanings.

[Captain Muppet]

simoid said:

I found a banana up my exhaust once.

I once got home from uni to find the remains of a condom on the exhaust of my 2CV. I remember hearing a "pop" when I started it...

Obviously I don't anthropomorphise much, or I'd have needed counciling.

[DuckDuck]

Captain Muppet said:

I once got home from uni to find the remains of a condom on the exhaust of my 2CV. I remember hearing a "pop" when I started it...

Obviously I don't anthropomorphise much, or I'd have needed counciling.

Are you sure that was a pop you heard and not a squeel of delight.........Or was that the fanbelt.

[The Wookie]

Tenuous thread is tenuous

[simoid]

The Wookie said:

Tenuous thread is tenuous

Thanks for improving said thread.

Tyres are like shoes; wheels like feet.