The Super Car Dream

In the upper most echelon of most auto manufactures fleets. With elite engine specs to make any enthusiasts heart skip a beat the super car is the all-expensive, elegant and rarefied automobile of the future.     

When you classify cars into categories whatever the criteria may be each supercars have common terms associated with them. Fast, sleek, powerful, expensive, elite, exotic and extensively sexy the list goes on. Form humble roots super car labels such as Audi, Lamborghini and Bugatti have not only become cars but have become social dividers where one boys dream car is another ones A to B cruiser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwJNORPgMyU

The selling point of these cars other than their speed is how much fun your going to have driving it, how invigorating the start sound of the engine is and how nice your going to look getting out of it. This is the super car dream.

Although the super cars can be the priciest not everyone is happy with them. My interpretation of a super car aside from the definition above is a car that has passion behind it. If its an Ascari A10 all the way to your old VP commodore if you have passion for you car why shouldn’t it be a super car?

A friends little pride and joy LX SS Torana :) St kilda beach

The super car dream aside from a fancy badge you be the passion you have behind you car. If you have spent 25 years working and improving your 72 Torana then by hell its YOUR super car.  The super car dream to me has nothing to do with price, power or body materials it has to do with your belief and love for your beast, baby, lady or bomb.  

Revie

The Chick Car

We all hear the statement “oh that’s a chick’s car man” but what really has the makings of a chick car?

Rounded that the hips.

The body type of the car you chose can help you fall into the category of “chick cars”. After much research I have narrowed it to the cars “curves”. Just like women, cars have curves and long lines that either elongate them or make them look short and fat. 

The male:

The 2011 Chevy Camaro, An impressive 6.2 litre direct injected V8 producing 426 horse power. Even with these amazing engine specs this cars body directly reflects stereotypical male car enthusiasts.  It has a wide bonnet and grill that rolls over the front wheels on high arches. Its perimeter is squared off right down to the back bumper that displays the duel exhausts. From the side the car very much resembles a snarling hound with sleek dark eyes (windows) and long protruding snout. Everything about this car just screams TESTOSTIRAONE!!

The Female:

Coming in both hardtop and convertible the new 2010 Volkswagen Beetle is cute, exciting and very city friendly. With their cherry red exteriors to beige perforated leather interiors the Volkswagen Beetle is perfectly suited to any busy urban lady. The rolling curves of the bugs whole body type fits perfectly in tune, with no sharp or angular edges.

Now don’t get me wrong I do realise that everything I just said was totally sexiest and based very stereotypically but I would be sitting here typing forever if I didn’t really bring it down to sweeping gender stereotypes.

“Back of the Bitch Bites”

Along with your gender screaming car body shape you should also be aware of additional signs of your cars gender (kind of like genitals or chromosomes…but not).

Stickers: Back off the bitch bites, Princess or simply frangipani stickers are a good straight up indication your buying, driving or driving behind I chick car.
 
Number Plate: if the number plate says anything from “Sarah” to “cutie” you have pretty clear warning the car/driver is female. 

If your ego is as big as mine and if your manhood is something you generally like to keep intact I advise you take a close look at your cars gender before you buy :) it could save you a lot of grief.

Revie 

Rice Export

You will see them everywhere in the city and generally hovering around the clubs at night the ricer car is and a fast growing car infection. 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ricer+cars 

www.urban dictionary.com describes a ricer car as a car built to go slow and handle badly with speed, that has been modified to look extremely ugly via “aero kits” and is fitted with an exhaust that makes an easily recognisable “farting into a coffee jar sound”.

In plain and simple words owning a ricer car tells everyone you have no knowledge of how to modify a car to improve its aerodynamics, speed/acceleration or handling. If anything turning you’re A to B Honda Civic into a ricer can only do bad things to your car, after closely examining a electric blue Daihatsu applause the other week I noticed a quite disturbing symptom.

CUT SPRINGS!! Identifiable by the inner wards tilt of the wheels. Not only is this an ineffective way to of lowering a car it puts extra pressure on the cars axels and I mean who wants to be driving around on a bent axel let alone have one snap while in motion. Each spring size is made to have flat ends and is fashioned to fit inside a certain sized shock casing if you do cut even a small amount of either end of your stock springs you risk giving them reason to just “pop” out of the shock and having your shocks collapse.

"Famous “farting into a coffee jar sound” 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaI4yM4HPLY&feature=related

Mufflers=Fluff!

Fluffing is a term I learnt from a friend who is a classical ballet dancer, she tells me “fluffing” is the times within a routine when there is time that needs to be filled but there is not enough space to fill it with an actual step. I think this is a good example of what a muffler tip does to a car, and more so a ricer car. A muffler tip added to a stock exhaust system has a simple difference. The tip is wider and more rounded than a stock muffler and lets the sound of the escaping gasses echo around inside it. Properly installed with a completely new exhaust system this kind of muffler tip is supposed to produce a low hardy growl. Although simply adding the wide muffler tip the end of a stock exhaust creates a high pitched and disturbing farting sound, coupled with a pod filter this will DEFFINALTY turn some heads.

Now I know I have spent the last paragraph and a half telling you how bad ricer cars usually are and how easily a Police officer could find a deflectable part with out even stepping out of his cruiser, but rest assured not all ricer classified cars are done with dodgy parts, brackets and paint. There are people out there with passion for their cars (even if their taste is slightly sour) and do extend a lot of their time and energy into making them cars look…well half decent if I do say so myself. 

Revie

Hey :)

 

This is my pilot blog entry and in general I get to do the “interesting” short paragraph about me myself and the almighty Revie.

If you haven’t noticed by the amazing original art work my blog is based on cars, motors, mufflers and anything with a internal combustion engine and goes forward, reveres and park. In the honest words of my generation I’m “old enough to know better but young enough not to care” and I will probably stand by that till the day im incapable to say it. I grew up and am still living in Australia the land of the Fords Vs Holdens, honestly I was born and bread a Holden girl, this doesn’t make me a Ford hater people (but I do stand by the Holden always and believe anything good that has come to Ford is via copyright of Holden). all in all this blog is a nice way to convince people that im a lot more interesting than I really am :p

Revie