Tom and Ray from cartalk have concocted top ten lists of gay and lesbian cars.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
By the way, did you know these guys are brothers? Or that they both graduated from MIT? I had no idea. If you have some extra time on your hands you should explore their site. There’s time kill central, useful car information, FAQs, their opinion on driving and talking on a cell phone, how to match noises with car problems and lots more.
Hmm, Levi has #5 and #4. Putting that with Mel’s confession of his attractions, I think we may have a problem here.
However, it doesn’t surprise me at all that there are several volkswagons on the list. I’ve always maintained that they are good cars that guys shouldn’t be driving.
Hogwash!
Does anyone know how washing hogs came to signify disbelief?
Hey, Levi, are you going to put up with that?
I’m so proud of myself, I predicted the VW Jetta would be the #1 gay car!
i have a corolla. a car that would never even make it to the competition. YIPEE! :) :) :) :)
There you go being controversial again. ;) I love Car Talk, though; those guys are hilarious. They like Miatas, too. Sure, a lot of gay guys like Miatas and Jeep Wranglers (which I own one each of), but I’ll bet middle-aged men are the primary buying demographic for both. Anyway, I like my cars, and the fact that gay men do too doesn’t particularly bother me.
Oh, and arrancia… you need more exclamation marks!!!!! ;) ;)
Oh, and for Dan’s edification, the origin of the term hogwash:
“As for hogwash, it is simply wash for the pigs. Wash in this sense is “swill”, or “liquid or partly liquid food refuse from the kitchen”. It’s basically a bucketful of kitchen scraps and leftovers, and when given to the pigs that many country families raised once upon a time, it came to be known as hogwash. Eventually, hogwash came to apply to anything that was worthless, then worthless or bad writings, and now it seems to have taken on the meaning of “untruths”. The word is first recorded with the literal sense in about 1440 (when it was spelled hoggyswasch – what a great word!), and the figurative meaning is first seen in the written record in 1712. ”
— from Take Our Word For It
I say we all ought to start calling “hoggyswasch!” when we hear something that’s rubbish.
My last gay roommate (oh yes, I had 3) was too poor to drive those fancy cars. Plus, he was born about 30 years too late with a penchant for antiques and old cars. He drove a baby blue Valiant until it died. Then he drove his father’s old Toyota pickup – which would have worked out well if he was a lesbian.
I predict that Levi’s next vehicle will be-e-e-e, a VW Beetle. Rainbow colored, of course.
I can’t see Levi driving a Beetle. I can see him driving the #3 car, the BMW 3-series in white, red or champagne.
Yeah, I could probably handle driving a BMW 3-series. Definitely not a rainbow-colored Beetle, though! Nuh-uh, none of that for me, thanks. And seriously, how many straight guys wouldn’t want to drive a BMW?
I wouldn’t mind a BMW 3-series, but I would prefer a blue one. I would rather have a 5 or 7-series, but the 3 would be fun.
A good friend of mine from high school who came out in college had a 1980-something 5.0 litre Ford Mustang.
Levi, way to be secure in your sexuality. I personally love the #1 lesbian car (subaru outback), but am definately straight. Maybe if I could find a pink one, or add some sort of floral motif to the bra, it would be okay for me to own one without my preferences being called into question…
That last comment was mine. This is an off day for me. Dan, this is a really funny site. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Now maybe I can figure out why my car sounds like this on the freeway:
vroom, click, boom, silence.
I love the calls that Click and Clack get on the show when the person describes the problem sound, “vroom, click, boom, silence..” What’s amazing is when they know exactly what it is and diagnose it properly. They sometimes have call backs from people who say that the diagnoses was right on.
now i finally have complete and convincing hard evidence that i’m not a lesbian (i only had my gut to go with before) – not only do i have a car that would never make it to this competition – i am also terribly bored with all this chatter about cars. “i’d take the 3 series, but i like the 5 or 7 series with the 5.0 liter of something and the something something with wheels and a gas tank.” WHA?
You say that now but if you ever get the chance to drive a sports car, take it. You might enjoy it.
But even if you did like cars, it wouldn’t make you a lesbian. Just like wearing bracelets doesn’t make a guy gay.
Wait. I thought it did.
Jason’s not going to be happy about that.
dan… do you wear bracelets?
do you have something to tell us? hmmmm? (shoinwg my gentle, welcoming face)
Nope, I don’t wear bracelets. But a certain person whose name starts with Jay and ends with son does. When Mel saw it, she said it was feminine, or gay. We then mocked Jason for the rest of the evening about his bracelet even though the rest of us thought it was fine for a guy to wear one.