Things faux-petrolheads say

[thatguy11]

A little different from the "things non-petrolheads say" discussion, which is for amusing remarks from people who simply don't really care about cars.

This discussion is for those howlers that come from those who claim to be petrolheads, but say things that reveal they know sweet F.A. about our chosen passion.

I'll get the ball rolling. I just overheard a guy at work describe his dream car as a "'67 Chevy Mustang".....

[Speed Badger]

People who want cars with a flat V6...

Or bang on about Torque.

[thatdude]

"diesels are faster because they rev higher"

[V88Dicky]

My new Audi diesel is really sporty?

[Zod]

thatdude said:

"diesels are faster because they rev higher"

You'd have to be quite special to think they rev higher.

[jimmy the hat]

"Volksvagen"

Cheers, Jim

[Pebbles167]

When the 'dream car' topic gets raised, one always says "Bugatti Veyron" and its about a 50-50 chance that they are either a petrol head or an idiot.

[anonymous-user]

General bleating about their diesel TDi - "pulls like a train", "goes like a rocket" etc.

Also I hear a fair few billy bullst stories about how an reasonably OK car in it's day, say a Cav SRi, performed amazing feats a 65 AMG Merc would struggle with today.

[rallycross]

BMW and how good their V6 engine is!

[xRIEx]

jimmy the hat said:

"Volksvagen"

Cheers, Jim

Do you pronounce Audi as 'Ow-dee' or 'Or-dee'? And is Renault, 'Ren-oh' or 'Ren-olt'?

Edited by xRIEx on Friday 5th September 12:48

[Captainawesome]

The ones who insist that their beaten up piece of st diesel keeps up with subarus and porsches to 130.

No mate, they were unaware they were in a race.

[paranoid airbag]

"You're not a petrolhead until you've owned an Alfa".

[Lee540]

Speed Badger said:

People who want cars with a flat V6...

Or bang on about Torque.

My old Honda GL1500 had a flat v6 technically.

180 degree V 6 cylinder configuration.

There might be one in a car, don't know?

[J4CKO]

Trouble is, correcting them makes you look a bigger bellend than they are.

[bennyboysvuk]

Lee540 said:

My old Honda GL1500 had a flat v6 technically.

180 degree V 6 cylinder configuration.

There might be one in a car, don't know?

Would you say the Ferrari Testarossa had a flat 12 or a flat V12?

Surely the GL1500 had a flat 6.

[Mastodon2]

Normally these people are identified by how excited they get about VAG diesels. "It's got mountains of torgue!", "I get pushed back in my seat by the torgue" etc.

[Hooli]

My hybrid is really fast

[Justayellowbadge]

"It's time to hand it over to our tame racing driver. Some say..."

[Lee540]

bennyboysvuk said:

Would you say the Ferrari Testarossa had a flat 12 or a flat V12?

Surely the GL1500 had a flat 6.

wikipedia said:

True boxers have each crankpin controlling only one piston/cylinder while 180° engines, which superficially appear very similar, share crankpins. The 180° engine is considered to be a type of V engine.

This is where I got it from.

[thatguy11]

paranoid airbag said:

"You're not a petrolhead until you've owned an Alfa".

Can't count how many times I've heard this. A favourite of those whose sole forum for motoring stuff is Top Gear