Good motoring-related phrases

[Brilad]

In the interests of balance, what are the phrases that just bring a smile to your face?


I will nominate:
'Drop a cog' - I like this phrase as I am quite a fan of 'dropping a cog' and 'flooring' it at times.

'Four pot lump' - Just makes me smile, don't know why, but any non car enthusiast just looks blankly back if you use this phrase.

'Raiding the 'parts bin''... I always imagine this as literally happening as in Ferrari engineers going through the bins at the back of Fiat.

'Masses of lift-off oversteer' (has to be said in as poor a Tiff Needell impersonation as you can manage).

Right that's it.

[55palfers]

V8 burble.

[KillerHERTZ]

Poverty Spec

[Impasse]

S Line.

[Motorrad]

'pull the trigger'; relating to buying a car. It sounds cool, like you're going to shoot the fk out of something with your 1911.

[Swanny87]

As an opposite to 'borked' I like the term 'shagged'. The funniest use of the term was that Drive video with Chris Harris in the 'shagged' Fiat Panda that looked like it had been driven over a large boulder.

The video for your viewing pleasure

Edited by Swanny87 on Wednesday 23 July 10:55

[Speed Badger]

'Poweeeeeeeeeer!'

[jimmyt1202]

One that's always made me chuckle is referring to budget tyres as "chinese ditchfinders"

[Hudson]

Brilad said:

'Masses of lift-off oversteer' (has to be said in as poor a Tiff Needell impersonation as you can manage).

So- "Masses of....lllllllllllllllift off....oversteeer"

[Bennet]

I once corrected a fairly benign rear end slide in my mondeo as I existed a wet roundabout by staying on the throttle and pointing the front wheels where I wanted the car to go and since then I feel a real affinity with the term "drift king".

[V8 FOU]

Bennet said:

since then I feel a real affinity with the term "drift king".

Any relation to "Wayne King"?

[Nikko 40691]

Never skimp on rubber.
Two meanings when you think about it...

[SeeNoWeevil]

Describing a high-maintenance car as a 'cash bonfire' usually brings a smile to my face. Also, 'driving like your teeth are on fire'.

[Pixelpeep]

SeeNoWeevil said:

Describing a high-maintenance car as a 'cash bonfire' usually brings a smile to my face. Also, 'driving like your teeth are on fire'.

Jeremy Clarkson said:

Drive home like you've sat on a wasp

[Swanny87]

Nikko 40691 said:

Never skimp on rubber.
Two meanings when you think about it...

Good one, genuinely laughed out loud.

[Paraicj]

Instead of "Drive it like you stole it", the Irish version is "Drive it like you're late for Mass." Lovely turn of phrase

[Pixelpeep]

Drive it like a rental

Park it like you've abandoned it

[CanAm]

"Balls out". Very few people know the true meaning.

[PitmanJack]

KillerHERTZ said:

Poverty Spec

Goes nicely with "Keep fit windows"

[thatdude]

Thrompy

something like a merc V8, or a ducati V-twin, preferebly such engines on more open-configuation exhaust pipes, are thrompy.

For clarity, a nissan micra is not thrompy, nor is a honda CG125.